Honoring the Life and Legacy of HAGAON HARAV GERSHON EDELSTEIN ZTL: A Tribute to the Gadol Hador and Torah Luminary

The cut is still open, the wound still raw. It's hard to believe. Nuffler, a terrace right, Shayne. We mourn the loss of the great Commander-in-chief of the Jewish people; the Ponovitcher rushes Shiva, the undisputed God all had our and leader of the Jewish people, rav Gershin Adelstein, the train of Levera. It's hard to believe, but he was born a hundred years ago, in 1923, back in the Soviet Union. He spent his decades spreading Hashem's Tyra, being Marbet's Tyra for Literally over 80 years, holding a position of Torah leadership, spreading the Almighty's wisdom, coaching other Torah scholars, and encouraging the youth. The Ponovitcher rushes Shiva was really like the steady heartbeat of the Jewish people and, as other great rabbis would come on to the scene and then leave, pass away, god forbid, no matter what was going on, we always had our captain of the ship, the God of the dark. The train of Levera was a Talmud. He learned in Lumja and Petah Tikva. He quickly blossomed into a brilliant Torah mind and a leader of the Jewish people. He was voted in and asked to give the sheer to become the maggots here in Ponovitch by the Gadolym. And He, like we said, the heartbeat. He never missed a day; he never took off for 80 years, literally spreading, being Marbet's, the Almighty's Torah and wisdom. He held countless rabbinic positions. He was asked by the Ponovitcher of Ribb, Yosef Shlomo Kahanemann, to give sheer to some refugees, some Holocaust survivors. The Chazan-ish asked him to provide another sheer. He gave Matzeh Shabbos an open sheer to Different people about the laws of Taharis. That was in memory of his wife. When his wife passed away, he was always there to support people. He was constantly encouraging other Torah scholars and when he burst onto the scene at the end of his life when the public Could not get enough of his wisdom. Still,,, he continued to help and encourage everyone that he met. Kind of some interesting facts that I discovered and read about his life. He was the chauffeur blower, the Baltic Kaya, in Ponovitch Yeshiva. He spent some time living in the home of the great God, the Ramih YAHUD, the Lefkowitz. He was a jack of all trades and a master at all of them. Now, anytime Atzadik passes away, it's scary because a deacon protects us. We don't even know how much we are spared because of their existence on our planet. And when they leave us, also a town I can imagine. A world loses its beauty; it loses its Luster and vigor, and, indeed, the reason one says Kadesh after our loved one passes away, Is because there's a void in the world, there's a certain emptiness without that individual, and we say Kadesh for 11 to 12 months. One can't help but Think about how large that Crater, that crevice, that massive hole and void that we are left with without Rebegersen Adelstein's a train of Racha Acharya most kiddos him. After a person dies, indeed, they become even more cuddles. The stories are going to start to flow forth, biographies after biographies, and here today, I want to highlight three different areas of expertise that Rebegersen's train of Racha was World renowned for, and people would travel miles across the globe to discuss, with him in these three areas. In Hennach in education, he was the go-to address for students. And rab'andh hal hai,,, How many videos have we seen of the Rosh Hashiva saying you have to do it with love? He would say bear chaynayam, you would always have to Try to instill a love of Tyra, a love of the Almighty, inside the children. And he was very fond of saying how, really, without love, without the enjoyment of the topic of his service, it will eventually Wilt and fall away. He would tell rabayim Not to be afraid to say that they don't know something or, if they made a mistake, to try to build an honest bond between Rebbe and Talmud. And truly, it's exciting that this Next thing isn't more famous, but the Rosh Hashiva used to tell teachers How and who to talk to in a classroom so that everyone gains the most. There are the more gifted minds of the class, those that struggle to retain and understand, and then there are those in the middle, the banoenim of the course. So who to properly speak to when preparing for the lecture and the course, and how do you Create an environment that everyone gains from the sheer? He said that a mechanic should prepare the lesson and give it so that it is made for the Smart ones, for the gifted ones in the classroom. It should be easily understandable and retainable for those talented minds so that they'll feel challenged and and and like they're getting something. They'll feel like this is at my level. They'll want more, while the rung beneath it of the next level mind will have to work and, with enough toil, will get it. And Then also those that are less fortunate. Still, for them, they also, with this same level, Should be able to pick out pieces of it,,,and if it's clear and easily retainable for brilliant minds, even the less gifted minds can still understand a portion of the class. I want to interject that these three highlights of his life areas of expertise come from Rabbi Gladstein and his Eulogy. He spoke about these three things, and I want to reiterate them. A second area of knowledge was his unprecedented, unparalleled Shalom bias, the peace in his home, and How he would teach others how to create Tranquility and serenity inside one's home and let the Schrinna live there. And he would teach others. How would it teach Shalom bias? And he would give lectures about it. People would seek his advice. He would say repeatedly That a man should also be prudent and say, " really, you could sum it down, sum it up to two words, list oak will have it to Remain silent at the correct times and give honor. List oak will have it to honor your wife, to listen to, not always talk, and repeatedly encourage and deal with individual cases of how to bring Shalom peace back into the home. Another area of greatness was his unique approach to Talmud Tyra, the actual learning of the Almighty's Tyra. He would repeatedly say about the clarity one needs in Torah study. He would speak ceaselessly to the idea of proper study of Hashem's Tyra, not always Overdoing it with different opinions and sources and Mifarsim and connections and going this way and getting too over, bog down too much information and not ending up with anything But essential to get what's on the page, to master the Gomorrah's Shakhla Vita area, the back and forth with Arashi and Toys Vissus, questions back and forth, getting into the, so you getting clarity, enjoying it, building on that from there, but to acquire what is on the daf, his paramount and vital. His sheer that he would give daily was a worldly noun for clarity. It's just it was sweet, like sugar. Everything came together. How many, if you think about it, millions of people listened to his She, you, or Ms. Torah talks Like the voice of an angel, the clarity, the enjoyment in the Talmud Tyra and imparting it to his students. But really, the more that we think and study this great man's character and service of the Almighty, the more inspired we should become and the more we should see what we have lost By. Gladstein cited Rebuinus and Ibschitz, who taught that when a great person leaves the world, so do his rungs. His spiritual accomplishments have now become hefker. They've now become ownerless, and a person can grab onto them. A person can seek to mimic that great person and make an acquisition on those now ownerless Milos. A person should become motivated by the Godless, by the greatness that this flesh and blood that this human person acquired. I can't help but just become so inspired by his just consistency. I imagine if he died at 100 and was born in 1923, maybe it took him 20 years until he was really at a place of some authority, some rabbinic role, for 80 years to spread Hashem's Tyra and teach it every day, in and out. And who knows how much Tsarist, how much Agmah Snefesh that he went through could not have been an easy life, with all of the different travelings and wanderings, but yet the heartbeat of the Jewish world, the love of Klaw Yisrael, just continued to beat on in Panavit Yashiba. In conclusion, I heard from Rabbi Braun that there is a Meshachachma Rehmer Simcha, the Kharinal of Racha, site Gemara, about the death of Tzadikim and what it means for the world when the righteous are taken from us. The Gemara compares the end of Tzadikim to the day of Yom Kippur in that both bring camera atonement to the world and the Jewish people. And why is that? I understand. One understands Yom Kippur, but what's the connection to the death of the righteous And what the Meshachachma explains? That Yom Kippur is a gift from God. It's a particular time. The day itself, that 24-hour period on the 10th of Tishrei, is an ace-rot zone. It's auspicious; it's a particular time, a time of forgiveness. If a person buys into the day, it sounds like even the day itself brings atonement, And says the Messiah, so too. When the righteous are taken from us, it becomes a young Simcha, an ace Rotson in heaven, because the Almighty is welcoming back, welcoming in One of his soldiers, including in general. He's greeting a 100-year-old, my orbits Tyra, Russia's Shiva, maggots here, someone who acquired my drakes upon my drakes in a mooner, in His shalom bias and his me, this toy, this, and it's going to have on him in his limit Mouser and his year. Asham, I am. And now the trumpets are playing in heaven, and they're welcoming in this. God all ador in heaven. They received another member into that high circle of the righteous sitting, basking in the glory, basking in the light of the Almighty Being, Behan emi zivashina, and sitting with crowns on their head now welcoming in regard Shin Adelstein's. A China lives rock, or so an ace Rotson down here. A time for prayer, a time to Say to Hillan, a time to double down on your efforts, a time To try to use this ace Rotson, this time of the camera, to try to increase your connection to a goddess bar, a time that there are Rolls in Kali Israel open, a time that there's a void, a crater, a gaping hole inside of the world, and it's a time to go out and be kinder. Majoregos, the Ponovitcher,, rushes Sheva was an example of consistency. He was a mechanic par excellence. His Talmud Torah and diligent devotion to Torah study were unparalleled. The undisputed God all had our, the master of Shalom bias, the commander and chief of the Jewish people, and He is no longer with us. Baruch Diane Hams, blessed,, is the true judge. Ha, going a rav God, all your a Chmiel, Gershwin Adelstein, zeroing. Live rocha Yehi zichroy baruch. His memory should be a blessing.