NEWS
R' Avrohom and Frida Weiss zt"l

By Betzalel Kahn

A large crowd was on hand at the levaya for R' Avrohom and Frida Weiss z"l, who were killed in a tragic car accident in Jerusalem.

Avrohom Weiss was born in 5681 (1921) in Pressburg to HaRav Yitzchok Aharon Weiss. He studied at Yeshivas Pressburg, where he was held fondly by his rebbe, HaRav Akiva Sofer, the grandson of the Chasam Sofer.

Frida Weiss was born four years later in the Old City of Jerusalem to HaRav Yitzchok Shpiegelman, a 13th generation resident of Eretz Yisroel, and her mother, Chaya Tema, the daughter of HaRav Shmuel Shlomo Eisenstein.

Her father HaRav Shpiegelman was close to the author of Leshem Shevo Va'achlomoh, the grandfather of Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv ylct"a, and to HaRav Shmuel Salant. In her youth she was a regular visitor in the home of