Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Mertz
יחזקאל שרגא ב"ר יואל זוסמאן
Baal Tiferes YechezkelDate of Death:
Mon. May 22, 1972 -
Sivan 9 5732
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Directions to Kever: Washington Floral Park Cemetery, also known as Deans Cemetery located in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Ohel in the Satmar Section
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Photo Caption: Rav Chezkel Mertz, Credit: MCA
Bio Information:
Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Mertz was highly regarded in the chassidisher world as an outstanding tzaddik. Being a close friend of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe, he was buried alongside the ohel (mausoleum) that was originally designated as the Satmar Rebbe’s intended burial place.
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” he was buried alongside the ohel (mausoleum) that was originally designated as the Satmar Rebbe?s intended burial place”
Which Ohel is this, who is buried there? what is the source that it was intended for the Satmar Rebbes burial place?
There is another ohel in the same section (I forget who is buried in it, could be the Rebbe?s FIL). I have heard this over and over from many Satmar chassidim.
Note worthy that there was a Din Torah held before the Levaya, regarding his burial place.
Why, what were the other considerations?
Baruch,
The other ohel is indeed the Satmar Rebbes FIL Rabbe Avigdor of Tchenstchoiv.
The din torah was because he left a tzavuah that he should be buried in New Square next to the Skverer Rebbe Z”l with whom he had a very close relationship. But for some reason there where people who chose not to follow his instructions.
Wasn?t he a mechutan with Rebbe Herschele of Spinka?
After his passing, he was also a mechuten with Tosh & both Kretchnif.
To clarify my self, with Spinka he became a mechuten after his passing, his older daughters were married in his life time.
Cheskel:
Just to recap:
Spinka ? after he died
Tosh ? after he died
Kretchnif X 2 ? after he died
Did anyone get married during his lifetime?
Read the above again.
I think that his father was niftar about 10 years after him and is also buried in his ohel
Correct !!!!!
His son is becoming very big in W
They are a building a new ohel over his kever.
There are so many bricks on his kever that they could a ohel from them.
I was there today. They finished building the ohel . It’s nice and big.
Reb Cheskele lived in Vienna, Austria from the late 40’s till the mid 50’s and was my sandik June 54, I was born 3 days after sheviois.
I heard 2 stories about him:
1)
A group of Yiden who didn’t have the opportunity to have a Sikke of their own, were sitting & eating in a communal Sikke, with R Cheskele also present. One Yid, just before starting eating his hot geshmacke soup on a cold sukkos day, said, as is the minhag: Lekuvoid Shabes or Lekuvoid Yom Tov.
R Cheskele, upon hearing this said quietly, but overheard by a few: Ich vot mich dus nisht gevagt zi sugen. I would not have dared say this.
(heard from a friend of mine whose father was present and overheard it)
2)
A holocaust survivor had just got married and they were expecting their first child. But there was trouble with the pregnancy and the doctors advised the young parents to be: terribly sorry but the child is endangering the mother and has to be aborted. The frantic yingerman ran to R Cheskele, nearly crying. R Cheskele told him: A yidish kind geht aroif nisht arub. A Jewish child goes UP not down. (the German for abortion is Abtreibung, and the first syllable “ab” has a ring of “down”). Don’t interfere and let the pregnancy take its course.
This father to be ran back to hospital and told them what the Herr Rabbiner had said, namely to carry on with the pregnancy. He argued with the doctors to the point that they all shook their heads in disbelief. They told him that he is foolish and that he is putting his young wife’s life at risk. And what does the Rabbiner understand already with no medical training.
He had eminas chachumim and was able to persuade the doctors to not interfere, and the rest as they say, is history.
Today this “baby” lives in Antwerp and is a great grand mother with many descendants, shoimrei toireh imitzvois.
(heard from the father of the “little” girl, some 50 years ago)
Zechisoi yugein uleini
Shie Edelstein, London
Thanks For the beautiful story Shie.