Rav Yehuda Michoel Meisels zt”l

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Yehuda Michoel Meisels zt”l, dean and president of Beth Jacob Sara Schenirer High School and Teachers Seminary in Boro Park.

Rav Meisels was a pioneering trailblazer in the field of chinuch habanos, leading Sara Schenirer with distinction and founding the Seminar Seminary in Yerushalayim.

Rav Meisels, in his youth, studied at Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, under the roshei yeshiva, Rav Elya Meir Bloch and Rav Mottel Katz, standing out as one of the elite talmidim of the yeshiva. He later served as a R”M in the mechinah of the yeshiva. 

In 1960, she married his wife, Hennie, daughter of the legendary Reb Elimelech (Mike) Tress zt”l, the famed Agudah and Hatzolah leader, and Mrs. Hinda Tress a”h.

In 1970, Rav Meisels assumed the position of principal at Sara Schenirer High School in Boro Park and worked to turn Sara Schenirer into a forerunner of many other institutions in chinuch habanos.

Founded in 1967, Sara Schenirer Seminary has been training teachers for half a century. Thousands of bnos Yisroel have gone on to serve as mothers, educators, and leaders in the Jewish community and beyond thanks to Sara Schenirer’s chinuch b’derech Yisroel saba.

In 1985, under the leadership of Rav Meisels, the seminary added courses to train future teachers in the field of special education. This was a relatively new field at the time and Rav Meisels hoped that with this specialized training, many more children would be reached and impacted for life. Soon the option to earn a degree in Special Education through a partner college was added and the program took on a life of its own.

His wife, Rebbetzin Hennie a”h, passed away 4 years ago.

Rav Meisels is survived by his children, Rabbi Zev Meisels, Rabbi Elimelech Gavriel Meisels, Rabbi Elazar Meisels, Rabbi Gershon Meisels, Mrs Rochel Slanger, Mrs Chana Flam, Mrs. Shulamis Rosenberg, Mrs. Esther Rivkah Nekritz, Mrs. Shoshanah Jaegar and Mrs. Basie Flaumenhaft; and grandchildren and great-grandchildren following in his ways.

Yehi zichrah boruch.

The levayah will be held today at 5:30 p.m.:

{Matzav.com}