“Challenging as it is to watch, once a child gets married, the couple’s ruchniyus is none of a parent’s business”
I arrived home from Shacharis on Thursday last week to see the face of the late Dayan Ehrentreu smiling at me from the cover of the Mishpacha magazine on my doormat.
A special thanks to Yonoson Rosenblum for his insightful and in-depth review of the Dayan’s life. Dayan Ehrentreu was the Dayan to so many of us living in North West London. It is amazing that so much of what was included in the article was not known to many living in the area!
The Dayan may likely be most remembered for setting up the eiruv in North West London. This changed the atmosphere for thousands who could now venture out on Shabbos with small children to go to shul or to visit friends and relatives.
I recall that the week before the eiruv went live, the Dayan gave a shiur about it to hundreds who had gathered in Finchley (Kinloss) Synagogue. It was an extremely erudite shiur explaining why the eiruv was halachically acceptable (even though the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations rule that it is not valid).
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