During the Corona epidemic, Rabbi Yaakov Meyer, the late chairman of Matashikim, was able to work so that the children would study in institutions and not be closed, with the construction of the tombstone on his grave, the praises he received at that time were engraved “He acted with strength and valor in the face of the kingdom”
A week ago, the businessman and the great man of kindness from New York, Rabbi Yaakov Michael Meir (Meyer), the late chairman and founder of ‘Matisakim’, who did kindness to the living and the dead with all his might and heart, passed away after an illness at the age of 59.
The following words were engraved on his tombstone at Beit Ha’ayim in Woodbridge, New Jersey, where he was buried: “One of the greats of the generation in the measure of kindness, he innovated in the matter of kindness with true genius and established a ‘Metachim’ institution to be a brother who helped the mourners, learned in God’s faith and was a patron of orphans and widows.”
In the following lines, unusual words were engraved about the period of the Corona epidemic that raged in the year 555 in the USA: “And the one who rises above all of them will remember courage and love for the sake of the pure mouths of thousands of students. It will happen during the Corona in the year 555 for creation by decreeing a kingdom with a warning, otherwise he will open a room and a meeting and he will The man who stood in the gap, and acted with strength and valor so that he would not cease from the people of the exile here, strengthens himself with Torah and prayer and saying Torah to the rabbi, he will stand for his victory, a witness will dissolve the congregation and return to Zion in Brina.”
The late Rabbi Yanki fought with the authorities not to close educational institutions during the plague as the great men of the generation in Israel and the USA ordered and the moving words were engraved on the tombstone.