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NEWS
The Seforim of HaRav Moshe Rosenstein zt"l
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
The beloved rosh yeshiva of Ohr Yisroel in Petach Tikva,
HaRav Yaakov Neiman zt"l, in a mussar shmuess
once made an impassioned plea to the pupils of the great
tzaddik, HaRav Moshe Rosenstein the Lomzher Mashgiach,
to observe his yahrtzeit on the 13th Nisan, since the
Germans annihilated his children and grandchildren and there
is no family left.
By a quirk of Hashgochoh, for many years his
yahrtzeit has been observed — and is still
observed — in Johannesburg, South Africa, in a manner
befitting this great tzaddik. R' Zvi Shimon Raichlin,
a great nephew of R' Moshe and now an attorney-at-law in
Johannesburg, a communal leader and a ben Torah in his
own right, initiated a yearly program on the 13th of Nisan
learning, together with the members of the community, a
selected piece from HaRav Moshe's seforim.
HaRav Moshe's two seforim, Yesodei Hadas and Ahavas
Meishorim, have been out of print for many years and
bnei Torah of today did not have an opportunity of
drawing from the well of this great gaon and
tzaddik, whose seforim were described by the
Chazon Ish on such a level as to have been authored in the
generation of the Vilna Gaon. HaRav Moshe, as a disciple of
the Alter of Kelm, expresses in his seforim uncanny
insights into the psychology of man and presents such
insights in the most logical manner.
The Torah world is now fortunate to be able to bond
themselves once again with this great mussar giant of
the generation between the two world wars. His great-nephew
Mr. Raichlin has implemented a dream of many years to
reproduce the seforim in a manner more familiar and
user-friendly to our day and age, comprehensively indexed and
with pleasant print and fine paper. It is a source of great
joy to the Torah world that a major vacuum in the
mussar literature has now been filled.
The seforim are now available at all bookstores.
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