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Your smicha from R Leizer Yudel was always in your pocket like your teudat zehut, part of your identity, made an impression on us, so its part of our identity also
Shared household with Zeide, Harav…. natural way you accepted him as head of the household for 17 years , simple humility, bitul; also: sat in back of shull always, refused hundreds of aliyos….
People come over say as adults how much they appreciate…. As children you treated then as the adult sthey were going to be……some yeshivas only accept best, from best/frum famluies, but he knew it was a yosemdike dor after churban in Europe and you made sure that a whole city, generation was able to benefit from the mesorah you had……that klal yisroesl would benefit and have a continuaiton,
As principal, you gave such respect to all the secular non-jewish teachers, a Kiddush hashem, and the respect they had for you…
Father z rov/litvak with deep relation to e. yisroel, loshon hakodesh…great respect to older brothe reb dov ber while father in US getting the wherewithal that eventually saved the entire family, he was in charge of you, chinuch, history, e. yisroel, loshon hakodesh
Many taught gemara incuding you, but like your father and your older brother… you also made sure to include in the curriculum of the yeshiva – and it was you who taught it - tanach, loshon hakodesh,
You walked kilometers on shabbos to visit,
you were willing able to receive from him what he wanted to give, I learned what it means to give kovod not only to a brother but to anyone, in any relationship to be there for what they want,
Mesilas yesharim, Mah choivoso be‘olamo…….
Malcale visited recently, even when you were not able to say much, when she started “Yesod…” you continued “….”
You were born and niftar in nisan, spring, always nispo’el from nature. Your hut grew (‘vayotzetz tzitz’). Your father in his sefer imrei shefer talking about interupting learning to say ma ilan zeh mischayev benafshoi, perush is that is only if it is a hefesk because see nature as separate entity rather than hashem’s creation, it was in anitegral part, not a contradcition to ma choivoso belomo, etc,
a mesorah from your father and you took it seriously, and so therefore so do we.
Rebi mechbed ashirim: how could it be, why would he give kovod to an oshir (and he himself was a big oshir), so you explained, give everyone what they need, but what can you give to them, if is oshir what give them? They need kovod. Give it to them, even if not so inclined, fa-gin it. not your agenda, your ego, just give to them what they need.
You never were thinking aobut yourself. Mommy in kitchen, you overhear re lack of potatoes, a sudden movement in living room, and ten minutes later reappear with big bag of potatoes, it’s a zrizus, a bitul, it wasn’t about YOU. And after learning m. yesharim this shabbos we see where all that comes from., everything is a nekudeh.
In Montereal we went to a shul, there want a yeshiva minyan thenmm you davened with kavonoh, others talking, never criticized tell people what to do, didn’t lecture us musar us, we saw how you acted and that had/made the greatest impression/effect.
Mesilas Yesharim, ‘avodah’, and not just avodah but ‘avodas halev’.
Rosh Hashanah no talking at the table, avodah tmimah
Real attmept at yashrus: fire in apt, insurance adjuster….smoke-smell damage to sforim, you refused to take money said you can still use the sforim to learn…
Visiting e yisroel after ‘67 came back with such hispaylus re building e yisroel, wanted to be part of the building of e y, took a simple position, we suffered it seemed it wasn;t bekoveik, we thought you’d come here and be a rosh yeshiva in yerushalayim,
(for your seeming lack of prestige kovod),, you treated the simplest people there workers with such dignity, the essence of a human being…’nit haltin fun zich’.
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Walked around talking aobut breishis, etz ha’da’as. If some-one listened closely as you were walking around they’d hear you saying (overhear muttering) etz hada’as etz hada’as, and this affected us we also are always thinking of that…
Always ma chovaso be’olamo, and recently ‘ma laasot, ma laasot’ -
And it wasn’t only Breishis, evey week, on shabbos disturbed by the parsha, you were disturbed, “how could it be that …”.it was not just reading a parsha in shul, it was real to you, it was who you were, and this made an impression on us
16:33: Japan, philipines, nisyonos, rice, learned, gmara and tanach with you. Chochmoh bagoyim ta’amin torah al taamin, you were mispoel from the engineers who immediately took care of the hygiene in the camp, but always mispo’el only from their chochmoh, not their torah, you kept kashrus as long as possible….story of ‘no-one to ask’.
18:30 Mekaneh… omed benisoyon’….all of life is prozdor (m. yesharim), all things in the world fighting to distract you from it, but omed benisoyon. You never lectured to us aobut it, we just learned via your stories of your experiences.
Then my mentioning the Markowitz family, his closeness, and mentioning harAv Markowitz who then spoke.
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