A ben bechor was born to Rosh Yeshivas Heichal HaTorah HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Kushelevsky, 88, on Sunday morning.
The Rosh Yeshivah and his first wife, Rebbetzin Sora Leah, a’h, (the daughter of the Rosh Yeshiva of Gateshead, HaRav Aryeh Zev Gurwitz, z’tl) weren’t zohech to children. After the Rebbetzin passed away six years ago, HaRav Tzvi remarried to his second wife, a US native who was 50 at the time and had two children.
This morning, after five years of marriage, a baby boy was born to the Rosh Yeshivah and his wife at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
The videos below shows HaRav Tzvi’s talmidim greeting him with singing and dancing as he arrived at his yeshivah in Har Nof.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Wow! that is a real Mazel Tov!
מזל טוב על לידת הבן
תזכו להכניסו לבריתו של אברהם אבינו בזמנו ולגדלו לתורה לחופה ולמעשים טובים !!!
Science at its “best”!!!
I know we have a mitzvah to be “fruitful” but we also have an obligation to teach our children Torah. If you can’t teach them Torah than why have children at all. I bless him with a long life so that he can teach his children the ways of Ha-Shem.
Nope!
Iib, because halacha doesn’t say that. A man is obligated in the mitzvah of peru u’rvu at any age, and it isn’t dependent on his ability to do anything else.
A lifetime of tefilloh from the Rosh yeshivah…. and Hashem Yisborach answers his tefillos.
It’s just amazing. Boruch Hashem, bechasdey Hashem. No words can can do justice to this Chessed Hashem!
As a talmid of Reb Tzvi Kushelevsky, I can tell you that we never thought we would see this day. We all wondered and worried, what will be with the Yeshiva that he worked so hard for and was moser nefesh to build?
We all wish him a long life in good health. But even about Boaz who passed away on his wedding night at the age of 80 was responsible for מלכות בית דוד , nobody would dare ask what’s the purpose of having a child that you cannot raise? BezH we hope that the Rosh Yeshiva will raise this boy up to be a gadol b’yisrael and take over the reigns of the Yeshiva that will be waiting for him
Wow MT!
I wish HaRav Tzvi arichas yamim & health to celebrate his bar mitzvah at 101 (know a few who reached that milestone) … and ’til 120 to walk him down the Chuppa and see grandchildren.
Everything is possible with the will of Hashem and if you don’t deliberately poison yourself with all the garbage being promoted.
iib002 , I guess you know more Torah than the Rosh Yeshiva. Btw, Avrohom Avinu had a boy at a pretty late age as well. You probably would criticize him too
mazal-tov! שיזכו להכניסו לבריתו של אברהם אבינו בזמנו ולגדלו לתורה, לחופה ולמעשים טובים.
The נציב sired his son Rav Meir Bar Ilan in his high 80’s and was zoche to see him learn chumash @ age 2.
Every birth is a nes, but sometimes we are zoche to recognize the yad H’. What a beautiful simcha, for the Rav, the Rebbetzin, and all of Am Yisrael.
Ishpurim, as far as I know the Netziv was niftar at age 77
Ishpurim, as far as I know the Netziv was niftar at age 77.
who can understand the ways of Hashem. it is so moving. may they create a strong and loving bond between them…..
The Netziv was 63 when he had Meir. Still, life expectancy was much lower those days, so he was in the league with R’ Tzvi. So you’re BOTH right!
Mazal tov to the Rosh HaYeshiva! May he dance at his son’s chassuna!
There is no age limit for a man to begot children. It is the woman who has to be of age. To conceive at 56 is only possible with medical help.
Jonas Loeb MD