A gadol was niftar and if not for the fact that it was mentioned here on yeshiva world, i wouldnt have known about it until my husband would mention it or until our shabbos magazines arrived.
It is a shame. One of teh last gedolei b’yisrael was taken away from us and it wasnt publicized the way other gedolim’s petiros were. I am ashkenaz. I work. And when i found out, as i am sure many other working people did when they found out, was say ‘BD”E’ and then look for stories about him. No, i couldnt fly out to E”Y, but i was able to learn a tiny bit of what a special person he was and the impact he has had on many.
Yes, IMHO, I believe that people can feel sad that a place with a tremendous amount of limud torah, that has had gedolim walk their halls, that has kollel yungerleit, and many others learning torah there, and they didnt stop for a half hour to learn l’zecher nishmas R’ Ovadia zt”l. Or even just to say tehillim for half an hour. As mentioned above, even girls schools stopped to say tehillim!! (not to put down girsl schools, but if girls schools can stop for R’ Ovadiah, halevai that yeshivos should stop too)