Community Builder, and Ambassador,If Rav Yitzchok Shlomo Zilberman were alive today, he would certainly shep much nachas from seeing the fulfillment of his life’s work, as his methods of learning spread to talmidei Torah and chadarim around the world. On the occasion of his 10th yahrtzeit, Mishpacha discussed his life and his life’s work with his bechor, Rav Yom Tov, and a host of others engaged in imparting his Torah and mesorah to the next generation.
It was the day before Purim ten years ago. Rav Yitzchok Shlomo Zilberman was hospitalized for the illness from which he would not recover.
Among the streams of visitors arriving for a final conversation one last pearl of wisdom or words of chizuk was Yishai Levi who had become religiously observant thanks to his newfound association with Rav Yitzchok Shlomo.
“He was like a father to me” said Levi. “I could walk into his house at 2 a.m. without knocking on the door and he would receive me hospitably.”
At that point in time a governmental authority was on the verge of announcing the winning bids for restoration work on the historical Churvah synagogue. First built in Jerusalem’s Old City by Yehudah HaChassid around 1700 and later rebuilt by the Vilna Gaon’s talmidim it had been destroyed each time by Arabs. Levi an architect had painstakingly devoted the previous three years to researching the Churvah’s rich architectural history in his quest to be the project’s lead architect. It was a brutally competitive process with lucrative contracts at stake.
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