A student of the Chofetz Chaim and one of the illustrious
gedolim of Lithuania, the elderly gaon, HaRav Ephraim
Oshry, formerly an av beis din of Kovna and currently
a rov on the Lower East Side, was warmly welcomed and honored
in the Belzer beis hamedrash in Antwerp.
HaRav Oshry, who arrived in Antwerp for a family
simcha, visited the institutions of the city's large
Belzer network. He was accompanied by the heads of the Belzer
institutions and their director general, Rabbi Dovid
Galitzki. In a special conversation with the heads and the
directors of the Belzer institutions, the illustrious guest
said that he was very impressed by the high educational level
of the Belzer institutions. "The fruits of the chinuch
accorded the students of the Belzer institutions throughout
the world are renown for their excellence," the gaon, whose
grandchildren study in Belzer institutions, stressed. He also
blessed all those involved in the sacred labor of
chinuch in these institutions.
During his stay in the city, HaRav Oshry gave many
shiurim for hundreds who came to hear him. HaRav
Oshry, who is famous in the Torah world for Sha'alos
Uteshuvos MiMaamakim, which he composed in the ghetto
during the war years based on the questions he faced then,
received many delegations of talmidei chachomim and
public figures who had came to bask in the light of his
Torah. He also visited the other Torah institutions in the
city, and met with the rabbonim, with whom he deliberated on
pertinent topics.
