The Lelover Rebbe, Harav Yissachar Dov Biderman zt”l, was niftar suddenly on Sunday at the age of 84.

Earlier on Sunday, he was being toivel in the private mikveh at the Lelov Beis Medrash on Rechov Tzefania in Yerushalayim when he collapsed.

Emergency personnel who arrived at the scene carried out prolonged resuscitation efforts, but to everyone’s great sorrow, they were forced to pronounce his death at the scene.

The Rebbe was born in Jerusalem on the 10th of Kislev, 5702 (1941), to his father, Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Mordechai of Lelov zt”l.

In 5703 (1943), his father moved to Tel Aviv. He studied in the local Belzer cheder as a youngster, and learned at the Lelov yeshiva in the Bais Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem.

After his marriage, he continued to devote himself to limud Torah and earned his parnassah by writing Sifrei Torah. The Rebbe lived a life withdrawn from worldly matters, entirely devoted to avodas hakodesh.

In later years, he was crowned Rebbe and led his beis midrash, Kedushas Mordechai Lelov, on Bar-Ilan Street in Yerushalayim.

The Rebbe is survived by his family and children, and by his brothers—the Rebbes of Lelov–Nikolsburg and Lelov Ezrat Torah.

וכל בית ישראל יבכו את השריפה אשר שרף ה’.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)