Overview
- He traveled from Jerusalem to New York for his granddaughter’s Williamsburg wedding and felt unwell after the traditional Mitzvah Tanz.
- He was hospitalized Friday night with a virus and died the following morning during the sheva brachot week.
- A funeral service was held Saturday night at the Belz synagogue on 43rd Street in Borough Park.
- His coffin was flown to Israel, with a procession scheduled to leave the Sanhedria funeral home at 10:00 p.m., pass the Belz Great Synagogue in Kiryat Belz, and continue to Mount Hamenuchot for burial in the Kahal Mahzikei Dat section.
- He was remembered for precise prayer and for teaching the Belz Rebbe grammar methods that shaped the community’s pronunciation using the Avodat Hashem prayer book, and for enduring the earlier loss of a son, Rabbi Yosef, and a daughter.