Rabbi Moshe Handelsman zt”l

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rabbi Moshe Handelsman zt”l. He was 92.

Reb Moshe was the longtime beloved executive director of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Always amiable and with a good word and vort for everyone, Reb Moshe was loved and admired by the hanhalah and talmidim of the yeshiva alike. Whenever he addressed a yeshiva function, whether it was a fundraiser on behalf of the yeshiva or a Kiddush in the yeshiva dining room, Reb Moshe always captivated his audiences, sharing divrei Torah and maaselech in his trademark manner.

Reb Moshe was a son of Reb Reuven and Mrs. Faiga Handelsman and grew up in Romania. During the war, Reb Moshe endured various difficult trials and tribulations, most significant of which was the petirah of his mother. The Handelsman family later immigrated to the United States a decade after the war.

It was Reb Moshe’s kesher with the legendary Rav Avrohom Kalmanowitz, founding rosh yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, that led to his shidduch with his wife, Toby, nee Israel.

Reb Moshe was zocheh to raise an outstanding family of bnei Torah and marbitzei Torah.

He made an indelible mark on the Mirrer Yeshiva, to which he was supremely devoted, and he will always be remembered for his remarkable contributions to the yeshiva. He had a unique kesher with the roshei yeshiva, Rav Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz and Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, and cherished his kesher with the yeshiva in general. The Mirrer Yeshiva truly was his second family.

Reb Moshe is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Yehudis (Hirsch) Handelsman; his children, Rav Leizer Handelsman of Los Angeles, Rav Michel Handelsman, R”M at Mesivta of Lakewood, Mrs. Faigy Borchardt of Bensonhurst, and Mrs. Yitty Sternbuch of Bensonhurst; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The levayah will be held Tuesday morning at Mesivta of Lakewood, located at 801 Kennedy Boulevard in Lakewood, NJ, followed by a levayah at Mirrer Yeshiva, located at 1791 Ocean Parkway, at the corner of Avenue R, in Brooklyn, NY. The aron will then be flown to Eretz Yisroel for kevurah on Har Hamenuchos in Yerushalayim.

Yehi zichro boruch.

{Matzav.com}