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Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi, Influential Lakewood Posek, Dies

Trained by the Chazon Ish under the guidance of Rav Aharon Kotler, he became a cornerstone halachic authority whose kollel shaped poskim in Lakewood and Har Nof.

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.