He had an urge to utilize every minute, as if he were aware that his journey in This World would be a short one
Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi Joseph preferred the quiet of the backstage for his acts of chesed, but knew when to step in when no one else was getting involved.
A brilliant talmid chacham, the young father of four managed to imbue his children — aged seven, five, three, and one — with a lifetime of emunah that everything the Eibishter did was for the best.
“They are holding up as well as possible under the circumstances,” said Reb Moshe Leizer Gottlieb, his brother-in-law and chavrusa. “The Eibishter gives koach.”
Reb Leizer Tzvi had recently completed learning the entire hilchos Shabbos under the auspices of Mivtzar HaKollelim, and was scheduled to take a farher on it this past Sunday at the beis din of the Eidah Hachareidis. Instead, his neshamah was in Yeshivah shel Maalah, having succumbed to the crowd crush during what his family thinks was his first time in Meron for Lag B’omer.
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