Jerusalem – The Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, passed away at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem on Sabbath.
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He was 88. In the past week, his sons were called to Israel after his health deteriorated. His followers held numerous prayers for his health in the past few days.
The Bostoner Rebbe visited Gush Katif before the expulsion of the Jews who lived there. At the time he came out strongly against the plan to destroy and abandon Gush Katif, saying that “it is unthinkable that a nation that has been through the Holocaust and survived as an ember saved from the fire, will have to suffer an additional burden of edicts that weigh down heavily upon the citizen, or do him actual harm in his own country – edicts that say determine where he may not settle.”
He joined other rabbis in determining that the Torah forbids uprooting a Jew from his land. “The transfer will lead to an increase in the Arabs’ ‘appetite’ and these steps could bring more disasters upon Israel,” he warned.
In BaKehila Magazine, he was asked about the connection between the Disengagement and the Second Lebanon War. “This guilt is doubled,” he said. “We see today the damage brought about by our exit from Gaza. If Gaza were in our hands today, the army would have more possibilities and it could defeat terror more easily. Now they are fighting against us from two fronts, north and south. Something absurd and infuriating happened here. With our own hands we prepared the ground for a situation in which the enemies of Israel would have the upper hand. We went and gave the Gaza although they did not want it. They said in advance that they would continue to fight Israel even after the retreat. This is complete madness that cannot be understood.”
Photos below from the Levay’a that was held at his Shul Givas Pinchas at Har Nof in Jerusalem at 9:30 pm Saturday evening. Photos and video credit to Yoel Resiner
Tzadik gamur!!
I believe the Rebbe was A Horowitz and a Levi, this family is referred to as Ish Horowitz.
bourch dayan hemes
He Was Such A Great Tzadik Why Does gush katif Have To Be The High Light Of His Amazing Life? . .
Baruch Dayan Haemes. Rebbe! Rebbe! Be a Meilitz yosher for us. Please, we need the Geulah.
B’DE. We are Nebach losing all of leaders. Its a pachad. We don’t have many like him who have sechel and stand up for whats right and fight against wrong regardless of what others will think. He was a real leader and his shoes will be hard to fill.
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes!!! The world suffered a great loss!! May he bring upon us the redemption quickly and easily, ומחה ה’ א-לוקים דמעה מעל כל פנים…אמן!!!
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes!!! The world suffered a great loss!! May he bring upon us the redemption quickly and easily, ומחה ה’ א-לוקים דמעה מעל כל פנים…אמן!!!
We lost a giant. BDE
Baruch Dayan Emet! He was a special man!
The Rebbe Z’TL was a great zadik and may he be a maylitz yashor for his family and all of Klall Yisrael!
Photo #10 is the Bostoner Rebbe’s shul in Boston, not Har Nof
What is the name of the Bostoner Rebbi from Brooklyn who also live is Beitar and how is his helath?
I want my Rebbe, my surrogate zeidy back and I’m not ashamed to say I am crying again for him. He was always there when I needed him to share simchos and to encourage me in times of tzorus. I’ll never see him lighting menora again as I used to as a child in Boston. I’ll never see him again until moshiach comes but I want him back now. Oy Rebbe, I miss you.
Boruch dayan haemes. He was one of the few people in his generation who was doime malach H’ (like an angel). He was respected by people of all hachkafos and groups. He will be missed greatly.
I was priviliged to know the ebbe from his Boston days. In fact, I was at a Seudah he made on his 60th birthday. He and his late Rebbitzen were outstanding leaders, each in his/her own way.
They are both missed.
Many people don’t know this but he was the official Rebbe for Blue Cross/Blue Shield due to his work with Rofeh.
Anyone that met the rebbi once felt the love he had for a fellow brother not only to bring you closer to hashed also when in need of medical help his house was an open door thank god his sons are keeping up the wonderfull work
The Rebbe ZT”L was such a kind hearted, holly man. I remember sitting right by him at a small kidush in the old city on Shavous- he greeted us all warmly and took our hands and gave us brachos- He will surely be missed- Baruch Dayan Emes
i am sorry to hear this bad news. Boruch dayen emes.
I hope moshiach will be revealed immediately.
The Rebbe in his old age was like a young boy – so often smiling. It is no coincidence he passed on the Lubavitz Chag of Geulah.
When I was eight years old, I found out that I was something called a “Jew”. A few months later, shul-hopping down Beacon Street, I saw some strange and wonderful looking people, dancing out of the shul. At the center, there was a man with the kindest, shiniest face I ever saw.
Nineteen years later, when my little boy was eight, I went looking for that man.
He and the Rebbetsin took us in, valued us, loved us, and made us so happy to be Jews.
The Rebbe and his family watched over us from afar, as we found our way in Jerusalem. And when my boy went back to America to live with his father’s family, it was the Rebbe who assured his continued Jewish education. Years later, he presided over my boy’s Chevah Brachas, and a few years later, performed the hair cutting for his little bachur.
You left this world on my boy’s barmitzvah parasha.
My dearest Rebbe, I thought of you this Shabbos (my son’s Bar Mitzvah parasha) as my boy blessed his children. I thought of you again, as the little one made Kiddush, and again, as we breathed in the spices of Havdala. Was your nishoma making its way home just then ?
I will miss the gentle humor dancing in your eyes, the heart big enough to include all of Am Yisrael, and your courage to take a stand for the Land. My Torah-abba-my zeideh-my dear, sweet Bostoner Rebbe we are grateful to HaShem for the zhus of having such a Rebbe, in this world and the next ! From all of the souls you “made”, their children and their children’s children, our love and eternal gratitude. Am Ahad b’Eretz Ahad !
interesting he had the same name as the Kedushas Levi, zy”a, and was niftar on the yartzeit of the Rebbe R’ Baruch, zy”a – v’dai l’mayvin
It is forty years ago that my wife and I met the RebbeZT’L … he was kind and understanding and answered our questions with great careing. Later he called me to aid him in bringing the word of ROFEH to all who neded the help of this truly great organiztion. Jew and non-Jew alike… no one was turned away. He was a great and humble man. He was a true tzadik. I will miss him. Baruch Dyan Ha Emes!
Models of “soulful gentleness” are preciously rare in our world (if they even still exist). For me this is what the Bostoner Rebbe personified. I have not come to appreciate it until tonight.