Rav Pesach Eliyahu Falk ztz”l was one of the world’s most accessible and venerated poskim. With his upcoming shloshim, family members share Rav Falk’s recipe for achievement
This story sounds like it’s lifted from a collection of tzaddikim tales in a distant time and place, but in fact, it’s far closer to home.
Set against the drabness, grey skies, and northern English accents of postwar Manchester, it’s actually the early life story of world-famous posek Rav Pesach Eliyahu Falk ztz”l.
The rav, who went on to become a legend in his adopted home of Gateshead, giving shiurim to thousands of yeshivah bochurim and seminary students for half a century, answering sh’eilos from all over the world, and writing groundbreaking seforim, nearly wound up behind a cash register.
In those fateful moments when a young bochur committed himself to try again, the Torah world didn’t just gain a leading light, it gained someone who had struggled because Torah was worth it.
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