Tragedy struck Bnei Brak on Thursday night with the sudden passing of Yeshiva Bochur Chaim Aharon Zakash (חיים אהרון זק”ש).
According to Hatzalah volunteers who were on the scene, the 17-year-old Yeshiva Bochur from Yeshiva Tiferes Mordechai suddenly passed out while walking down a flight of stairs on Thursday evening. His fall caused him to suffer a massive head injury.
He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors tried saving his life. He was unfortunately Niftar.
Compounding the tragedy even more, the Bochur lives in the same building as the Weiss family, who suffered a painful double tragedy when R’ Yitzchak Meir Weiss passed away as he was sitting shiva for his baby son.
Further details will be published shortly.
Boruch Dayan HaEmmes…
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mezuzos?
Maybe there is carbon monoxide in the building.
Baruch dayan emes. We need moshiach now! Perhaps they should check the mezzuzahs of the building.
So so sad. My first thought was also the mezuzah.
I understand that many assign great protective power to having a mezuzah and this segullah is nullified if one or more of the mezzuzahs in a home are pasul. However, in a multi-family apartment building where each apartment owner has their own mezuzah, does the fact that someone on the 4th floor has a pasul mezuzah jeopardize somone living on the 2nd floor? As a practical matter how do tenants on one floor seek to check the mezzuzos of someone else’s apartment, especially if other tenants are not frum.
Name is pronounced ZAKS
Not only the same building, they are neighbors, their doors are opposite eachother.
H yerachem on the poor MDA crews that see nothing but grief there.
they are not neighbor s they were formerly neighbors
GHT, not “many”, all believing Jews. The Torah itself says that we should keep the mitzvah of mezuzah so that our lives will be extended. The gemara says explicitly, in several places, that the mezuzah protects. It even says that people who had no permanent home, and therefore were not obligated in mezuzah, would nevertheless carry a mezuza around and put it up in their hotel room each night, for the protection it affords. And yes, one pasul mezuzah in the building unfortunately affects everyone in the building. So one should use whatever influence one has on ones neighbors to make sure their mezuzos are kosher. Offering free inspection is obviously one method; there’s no reason anyone should refuse such an offer.