Arav is expected to be present at all the life-cycle events of his congregants. That includes officiating at the funerals of his congregants and eulogizing those members who have departed This World.
Some funerals though are more painful than others.
When Rabbi Avrohom Aronovitch confided in me a number of years ago that he had been diagnosed with a dreaded disease my heart ached in empathy. For years the illness attacked him with a vengeance until Wednesday 21 Iyar when just minutes before sunset Reb Avrohom left This World.
To accommodate family members who would be arriving from Canada the levayah was scheduled for Friday morning May 19. And as Reb Avrohom was a talmid of the Yeshiva Gedola of Passaic it was decided to have the funeral at the yeshivah.
