Gedolei Yisrael have issued a public call urging the tzibbur to intensify tefillos on behalf of the Grodno Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yitzchok ben Nechama Hacker, who remains hospitalized in serious condition.
The appeal was issued in a letter written by Rav Tzvi Drebkin, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Grodno in Be’er Yaakov, who called on the public to daven for his close friend and fellow manhig baTorah, Rav Yitzchok Hacker, who is in need of abundant rachamei Shamayim.
Rav Hacker is currently hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center.
In his letter, Rav Drebkin wrote that he was issuing his plea “as a Sefer Torah is in a state of danger, Rachmana litzlan.” He described Rav Hacker as “my friend and companion, a faithful transmitter of the mesorah, the great gaon Rav Yitzchok ben Nechama Hacker shlit”a,” noting that he is the son-in-law and close talmid of Ponovezh rosh yeshiva Rav Shmuel Rozovsky. Rav Drebkin emphasized Rav Hacker’s central role in conveying his rebbi’s Torah to the current generation, adding that he is presently in a grave medical condition.
Rav Drebkin appealed to “our brethren in all places of their dwelling” to raise heartfelt supplications and to increase Torah study and good deeds as a zechus for Rav Hacker’s refuah.
The letter was subsequently signed by many gedolim, including Rav Dov Landau, Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Rav Berel Povarsky, Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein, Rav Don Segal, and Rav Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger.
{Matzav.com}
