22-Year-Old Chareidi Killed In Jordan Valley Road Accident A Week Before Wedding

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 22-year-old Chareidi youth was killed Monday evening in a road accident in the Jordan Valley near Yericho, just a week before he was supposed to get married.

Shlomo Rottenberg, a student at the Shaarei Torah- Biale yeshiva in Jerusalem, was  prayers at Meron and other tombs of righteous people when he was killed in a tragic collision between his car and a truck travelling in the opposite direction. Rottenberg was declared dead at the scene.

Shlomo Rottenberg was born on 24 Kislev 5759 (1998). His father, Rabbi Mordechai Rottenberg serves as a mashgiach (spiritual advisor) at the Toras Chaim yeshiva in Jerusalem and is a prominent member of the Biale chasidic community. His mother Reiza is a member of the Roseman family from Bnei Brak.

Shlomo studied at the Skver Talmud Torah and at the yeshiva ketana Chayei Moshe in Jerusalem before pursuing his studies at the Shaarei Torah yeshiva in Shmuel Hanavi street, Jerusalem. One of his friends said that “Shlomo was extremely talented by any standard and sat and learnt at all times. He had vast knowledge on many subjects and was exceedingly G-dfearing and had deep faith. He had a warm heart and gave of himself to others and never hurt or shouted at any other person, always maintaining the utmost respect for others.”

Shlomo was very attached to the Biale rebbe and was always one of the leaders of the group who would be close to the rebbe at every event and tish.

Shlomo Z’l was engaged to Gittel Ekstein, a student at the Satmar seminar in Bnei Brak and the daughter of Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Ekstein, one of the prominent Nadvorna chasidim in Bnei Brak. The wedding was supposed to take place next Wednesday at the Heichalei Malchus wedding hall in Bnei Brak.

May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.