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Hakomas Matzeivo for the Lakewood Mashgiach

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The hakomas matzeivo of the Lakewood mashgiach, HaRav Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, zt'l, took place last week on Wednesday at Har Hamenuchos. The son of the Mashgiach, HaRav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, came in for the occasion.

Speaking at the cemetery were HaRav Elya Ber, HaRav Shmuel Shechter, a long-time chavrusa of the Mashgiach, HaRav Yaakov Eliezer Schwartzman, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Lakewood in Yerushalayim, and HaRav Leib Heiman, rav of the Gra Shul in Bayit Vegan. HaRav Don Segal led the Tehillim.

HaRav Heiman said that R' Nosson knew himself and that a person should know himself in order to be a true and fully effective oved Hashem. All the maspidim stressed the importance of learning mussar as being one of the central themes of the life of the Mashgiach.

At one of the earlier hespedim, HaRav Shechter said that the Mashgiach was scheduled to be honored at the Lakewood dinner this year. After this was announced, about two weeks before his petirah a talmid approached him and asked him why he consented to such a thing, which he had always avoided. The Mashgiach answered him that it will never come to be. HaRav Shechter said that we see here that Chazal who say that whoever flees from kovod, is pursued by kovod, mean that kovod pursues him but does not necessarily catch him.


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