אבל בעולם הישיבות: Rav Shlomo Brevda zt”l
[Levaya info below.] It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Shlomo Brevda zt”l, who had battled illness for the last year. Rav Brevda was one of the most well-known maggidei shiur and darshanim and delivered thousands of drashos in Jewish communities worldwide. He was niftar this afternoon.
Rav Brevda was the author of numerous seforim, including volumes on Yomim Tovim. His writings on the Torah of the Vilna Gaon and the Gaon’s seforim in aggadah and Kabbolah are particularly well known.
Rav Brevda recalled the following miracle that happened to him in Yerushalayim when he was a young man while he was learning in Brisk in Yerushalayim:
One night, he decided to run to a relative’s house. While he was approaching the house there was a sudden blackout, which made the street turn pitch black. He suddenly remembered that right next to the relative’s house was a very long steep and slippery staircase built into the street, which one had to navigate very carefully in order to avoid slipping and falling down its sharp and circuitous route.
Stopping immediately to get his bearings, he tried to locate the staircase in the darkness, when he was absolutely stunned to find that the stairs where at the edge of his right foot, and had he continued running for just a fraction of a second more, he would have certainly been seriously injured C”V.
He was hoping that the next morning he will daven and thank Hashem with his full heart, better then ever, after his life was saved by the split of the second, but davening Shacharis was just like any ordinary day, it bothered him tremendously.
So Rav Brevda traveled - four hours each way - to Bnai Brak to discus this matter with the Chazon Ish. He related the miracle to the Chazon Ish. Rav Brevda asked the Chazon Ish, “Why is it that I do not feel any different and closer to Hashem Yisborach since I woke up today than when I woke up yesterday or any other day of my life? I was privileged to have an open miracle happen to me, yet I do not feel like I am on my way to serving Hashem any better today then yesterday! Or the day before! How can this be?”
The Chazon Ish paused and thought for a few moments before he answered. “There is a special yeitzer hara called “The yeitzer hara after an open miracle” that tries to weaken a person when he is stirred to serve Hashem after experiencing a miracle.”
Rav Brevda will be remember as one of the great mashpiim and maggidei shiur of his time, and for perpetuation the pure mesorah of the Vilna Gaon like few others.
The levaya will take place this evening. Details will be posted shortly. Kevurah will take place in Eretz Yisroel.
Updated: The levaya will take place at 7 p.m. at Cong. Bnei Yehudah, located at 16th Avenue and 53rs Street in Boro Park. From there, the aron will be taken to JFK Airport.
{Matzav.com Newscenter}
19 Responses to “אבל בעולם הישיבות: Rav Shlomo Brevda zt”l”
2. Comment from heshy
Time January 8, 2013 at 5:17 PM
bd”e
3. Comment from Reuven
Time January 8, 2013 at 5:51 PM
עיני עיני יורדה מים There are no words.
4. Comment from anon
Time January 8, 2013 at 5:52 PM
BDE What a loss
5. Comment from A Non-dependant
Time January 8, 2013 at 6:05 PM
Sad news!
BDE
6. Comment from cleve
Time January 8, 2013 at 6:40 PM
Any hook-up info for the levaya?
7. Comment from Anonymous
Time January 8, 2013 at 7:12 PM
Please help us listen to the levayeh! Any info??
8. Comment from Anonymous
Time January 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM
BDE
9. Comment from reader
Time January 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM
BDE, I shudder at the thought of yet another huge loss.
10. Comment from Levayah in Jerusalem
Time January 8, 2013 at 8:13 PM
Levayah in Jerusalem scheduled 7:00 PM in Torah Ohr, Rechov Serotzskin Jerusalem
11. Comment from Klall Yisroel wake up
Time January 8, 2013 at 8:14 PM
Lets wake up, how many Gedolim do we have to loose till we’ll do a proper Teshuva?
12. Comment from Boruch
Time January 8, 2013 at 8:54 PM
When I was spending the Yom Tov season this past fall with my mother shetichye in Haym Solomon Nursing Home in Brooklyn, Rav Brevda was a patient there. Besides conversing with him, I had the z’chus to hold the Gemara for him while he actually delivered a complete shiur on Inyana D’yoma, despite his severely weakened condition.
Something to remember and be inspired by.
May he be a meilitz yosher for all of Klal Yisroel.
13. Comment from Tapuach Yid
Time January 8, 2013 at 9:08 PM
ברוך דיין אמת
14. Comment from אבל בעולם הישיבות
Time January 8, 2013 at 10:06 PM
אבל בעולם הישיבות • המגיד הגה”צ רבי שלמה ברעוודה זצ”ל, הלך לעולמו לאחר מחלה ממושכת • מתלמידי הגר”י לווינשטין ומגדולי בעלי המוסר • הלוויתו תצא מחר בירושלים מישיבת תורה אור רח’ סרוצקין בשעה 7:00 בערב להר המנוחות
15. Comment from ת נ צ ב ה
Time January 8, 2013 at 10:13 PM
את תורת המוסר קנה ממשגיח ישיבת פוניבז’ הגר”י לוינשטיין זצ”ל שדחפו לחזק את לימוד המוסר.
בשנת תשכ”ג חיבר את הספר ‘עמלה של תורה’ לבקשת ה’קהילות יעקב’ והרב שך זצ”ל, שביקשו ממנו לחזק את בני התורה להמשיך באהלה של תורה.
חיבר גם פירוש על ‘שיר השירים’ ד’ חלקים על ביאור הגר”א, וכן ‘קיימו וקיבלו’ על עניני פורים, ‘יבנה המקדש’, ‘תפילת חנה’, ‘להודות ולהלל’ על חנוכה, וכן פירוש על הגדה של פסח.
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16. Comment from Broken upon Hearing the news
Time January 9, 2013 at 6:59 AM
We are an orphaned generation with the loss of Rav Brevda,zt”l a true conduit of our mesorah M’Sinai. After the loss of Rav Avigdor Miller,zt”l, a number of years ago, and now Rav Brevda we are sorely lacking in any who can fill their shoes.
17. Comment from Anonymous
Time January 9, 2013 at 9:18 PM
Until Nisson 27th, 2001, Rav Avigdor Miller ZT’L was the most eloquent speaker on this planet. From Nisson 27th, 2001 thru Teves 26th, 2013, Rav Shlomo Brevda ZT’L was the most eloquent speaker on this planet.
Now we are totally bereft of real eloquence. Even with such talented speakers , it is totally impossible to suggest who is the most eloquent speaker, if if anyone is even near this eloquence.
18. Comment from Avraham
Time January 10, 2013 at 1:38 AM
What a tremendous loss and a giant void for Klal Yisroel! Yechi zichro boruch!!!
19. Comment from ת נ צ ב ה
Time January 10, 2013 at 5:19 PM
How horrible!!!!boruch dayan haemes. Not only did we lose a tremendous talmud chochom, but he was a tremendous “Ish Emes”, tremendous “ohev Yisroel” such a modest person, no airs, so available , so real..such a mentsch par excellence…who do we have to learn from now, tisha buv i cant forget his long shiur while we sat for hours on the floor of the shul and he stood for hours! sharing emes with us! we cried together, laughed together, thought together…on my…hashem who will ever be able to fill this void??How horrible!!!!boruch dayan haemes. Not only did we lose a tremendous talmud chochom, but he was a tremendous “Ish Emes”, tremendous “ohev Yisroel” such a modest person, no airs, so available , so real..such a Mentsch par excellence…who do we have to learn from now, Tisha-buv i cant forget his long shiur while we sat for hours on the floor of the shul and he stood for hours! sharing Emes with us! we cried together, laughed together, thought together…on my…hashem who will ever be able to fill this void??
1. Comment from הגדול
Time January 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM
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