Overview
- Rabbi Mordechai Auerbach, 84, died after a serious illness and hospitalization at Ichilov Hospital where he was treated for severe pneumonia.
- Funeral services began outside his Abir Yaakov bais medrash on Oliphant Street in Tel Aviv, continued at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem, and concluded with burial at Har Hamenuchos.
- Thousands of mourners filled the streets in Tel Aviv and joined the transfer to Jerusalem, with prominent Admorim, rabbonim and roshei yeshiva leading the procession.
- Auerbach led Yeshivas Halichos Shlomo, served as rav and av beis din of Kehillas Abir Yaakov, and presided over the National Center for Family Purity, where his outreach and personal warmth drew many toward observance.
- As a son of the noted posek Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, he leaves a prominent rabbinic lineage and institutions that now face immediate succession questions and organized communal mourning.