The late Rabbi Shalom Poversky, one of the leaders of the Kol Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem, returned his soul to the Creator during the last Shabbat, when he was 85 years old. The late Rabbi contracted the corona virus, a week and a half ago he was hospitalized with a serious condition. Gershom to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, after contracting Corona and suffering from difficulty breathing and low posture during the weekend, he was put to sleep and respirated, and died, sadly, during Shabbat.
Rabbi Zatzach was born in Baranovich, Belarus, on the 24th of Nisan 1905, the youngest son of his father, Rabbi Yehoshua David Poversky, Rosh Yeshivat Ponivez and owner of Yeshuat David, and his mother, Rebbetzin Chaya Feigel. When he was only 4 years old, he came to Israel with his parents.
The late brother is the younger of three brothers, with the older brother being the Rosh Yeshiva Gaon Rabbi Baruch Dov Poversky and the other being a doctor of Hebrew law, Rabbi Chaim Povarsky, son-in-law of the former rabbi of the city of Bat Yam, Rabbi Pesach Kokis. For a good life.
For years he served as a rabbi in the Be’er Ya’akov yeshiva, and even lived in the Be’er Ya’akov settlement. In 1952, he was appointed a rabbi in the Kol Torah yeshiva in the Beit Vagan neighborhood of Jerusalem, where he struck Torah and reverence and taught many students. The Jerusalemite and served as the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Talmud published by the Maor Institute.
His students find it hard to say goodbye to most of them, who was welcoming to everyone in a special way, the students loved him in a special way. His lessons were for nothing, he brought the students together wonderfully.
The funeral procession began at the Kol Torah Yeshiva plaza in the Beit Vagan neighborhood of Jerusalem. There he was eulogized by the Rosh Yeshiva Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger, the Mashgiach Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Bordiansky, his son – in – law Rabbi Yehuda Orlansky of the yeshiva rabbis and his brother Rabbi Baruch Dov Poversky, Rosh Yeshiva Ponivez and a member of the Council of Torah Scholars.
“We have only to cry and cry, and more to cry,” cried Rabbi Baruch Dov Poversky, the deceased’s brother. “He was your rabbi, he was your father, and you memorized to your son these are the students, you were his sons.”
Afterwards, the funeral procession left for Bnei Brak, where it will leave the Lederman Synagogue on Rashbam Street for Beit HaChayim Ponivez in the city, where he will be laid to rest, after the conservative Torah minister Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky accompanied him on his final journey.