Overview
- A levaya is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at Congregation Sons of Israel Holocaust Memorial Chapel, 613 Ramsey Avenue in Lakewood.
- Kevurah is planned in Eretz Yisroel.
- Born in Venezuela in 1933, he moved to Teverya in childhood and later studied in Montreux before arriving in Lakewood to learn under Rav Aharon Kotler.
- He founded a halacha kollel in Lakewood in 1980 and relocated it to Har Nof in 1993 to continue training dayanim and rabbanim.
- His writings include Ohr Yitzchok and a concise Birkat Hamazon, and he returned to Lakewood in 2009 to continue answering halachic questions.