The Hassidic Gaon Rabbi Menachem Yosef Yehoshua Weinstock zt’l of Jerusalem from the most prominent Hasidic centers of Laeuv passed away at the age of 69 after years of severe suffering. His funeral will be held at noon in Jerusalem
Baruch Dayan the truth: This morning the sad news came from Jerusalem about the passing of Rabbi Menachem Yosef Yehoshua Weinstock zt’l of the Chassidim of La’ov, who was known as a great scholar and suffered severe and bitter agony – he passed away at the age of 69.
The deceased was born in Jerusalem in the year 1873 to his father, the Chasid Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Weinstock, who was the son of the Rabbi Moshe Yair Weinstock, a prominent student of Baal Hasulem ZIA.
When he arrived at Parco, he married his wife, the daughter of the Jerusalem Motz HaGaon Rabbi Mendel Cohen ztzel Rabbi Wittenberg houses.
Rabbi Yehoshua was known as a great scholar, he served as one of the editors of the famous column of Shirat Deborah. 17 years ago he had a stroke and since then he was confined to a wheelchair and lost the ability to speak when looking at fragments of boards placed in a closet.
He was a Chassidian computer scientist and the rebbes for generations highly valued him and spoke highly of him. He worked hard on his Talmud despite his suffering in the Hasidic synagogues in Jerusalem.
All his days he labored and labored in the Torah for Asuki Shematata Aliba Dahalkhta and the Torah was the heart of his life, he enlightened the eyes of the Torah and Halacha students, he made ears to the Torah by glorifying the books of the first and the great scribes to arrange them as a ready and prepared table, and in particular he immersed himself in the strict laws of Shabbat to win the Rabbis to put up a Shabbat wall in every Jewish home To be accessible to the public is equal to every soul, he feared God and his commandments he desired very much, a follower who showed mercy to his son, his joy on his face, and he was attached to the tzadikim of a house for the poor.
He won and left behind him a blessed generation of righteous men, sons and daughters, sons-in-law and dozens of descendants who continue on the path of Torah and Hasidism.
Over a year ago, his sister, the important rabbinical woman, Mrs. Yodit Chaya Hana Ashlag, passed away suddenly on the night of Shabbat.
The funeral journey today (Sunday) at 12:00 noon from the Shamgar funeral home in Jerusalem to the Mount of Repose there Yeatman.
May her soul be bundled in the bundle of life.