The chosen street is a central street in the city’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. • In a rare way, the head of the yeshiva, the Germach Bergman, participated in the exciting event. “Reciting a name after Rabbi Shech is a huge right for the city and its residents”
In the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem, an event was held to name a street named after Rabbi Shech. This is as part of Mayor Moshe Leon’s initiative to commemorate the man who was the leader of ultra-orthodox Judaism for many years, and who even lived in the ‘Kerem’ neighborhood in the city in his early years after immigrating to the Land of Israel. The chosen street is the main and central street in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in the city.
The head of the yeshiva, the Garmetz Bergman, the son-in-law of Maran Rabbi Shech came especially and in a rare way to participate in the exciting event, despite the hassle of the journey from Bnei Brak to Jerusalem. In addition, Rabbi Shech’s family members, his students, yeshiva leaders, rabbis and public figures also participated, including MK Degel Torah Moshe Gafni, Uri Makleb and Yaakov Asher, deputy mayors Eliezer Rauchberger, Israel Kellerman and members of the city council.
The head of the yeshiva, Hamartz Bergman, said: “I want to tell you that our great Rabbi Rabbi Shech lived for many years in Jerusalem. It has been 21 years since he left. He was known as a humble man. He said in one of his well-known sermons that he has no power in this world. No inheritance, and neither are the yeshivas his. He didn’t take anything for himself.”
The head of the yeshiva praised the work of the mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Leon stating: “Even though I am not in the health line, I wanted to participate in this event to honor the mayor for most of his actions for the sake of the thousands of Torah workers, the residents of Jerusalem, the holy city.”
“The mayor’s actions are done with a good eye and a kind heart. I want to tell him, by your concern for their sake and their well-being, you are strengthening the guarding of the Holy City, considering ‘I have placed guards on your walls Jerusalem,’ and in this you are guaranteed continued success and heavenly help in the works of your hands in Jerusalem, the Holy City.”
After that, the Chairman of Degal HaTorah, MK Moshe Gafni, who served Rabbi Shech for many years in public affairs, from the foundation of the Degal HaTorah movement founded by Rabbi Shech to Rabbi Shech’s departure, gave a speech. MK Gafni emphasized that all discussions in the finance committee that took place at that time were cancelled, after a decision was made in the faction that all members of the faction would come to participate in the exciting event.
Gafni said: “I bless the municipality of Jerusalem, I bless its leader Moshe Leon, that under your watch a street will be named after Maran Rabbi Shech, so that everyone will remember him and Jerusalem will surely. We are here continuing his public path. The Torah flag in Jerusalem is an issue to be proud of “.
Afterwards, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon spoke, mentioning the work of Rabbi Shech and the time he lived in Jerusalem. “21 years after he left, I consider it a special privilege to be the one who pushed forward this important matter, which is not natural and required of him for Jerusalem, to commemorate in eternal memory this great Jewish leader – the greatest since the days of the Holocaust – Maran Rabbi Shech.”
“When we look today at the ultra-Orthodox public activity, we see before our eyes the figure of Maran Rabbi Shech, who was the one who laid the foundations for the ultra-Orthodox existence here in the Land of Israel. Beyond his greatness in the Torah, Rabbi Shech was a man of action, and a man of construction with his whole being. He founded the “S and the ‘Flag of the Torah’, the ‘Yadd Na’aman’ and the ‘Shaarit Yisrael’, founded yeshivas, educational institutions, and was engaged all his life in strengthening ultra-Orthodox Judaism in the Land of Israel.”
“The flourishing and prosperity of the Torah world after the terrible Holocaust is largely attributed to Rabbi Shech, who stood up to remove the ashes from the ruins of the destruction of European Jewry. Rabbi Shech was a leader who initiated things, and not just reacted to them. He led moves. He changed reality. A man of outlook, an ideologue Definitely. He did not hesitate to initiate confrontations when he saw them as necessary for shaping the future of the ultra-orthodox public in Israel. He set a goal in front of his eyes, and he did not hesitate to pay a price for it.
“For years, Rabbi Shech lived here in the Kerem neighborhood in Jerusalem, and from here he led a large part of the public processions. To be named after Rabbi Shech is a huge privilege for the city and its residents!”
At the end of the event, the mayor excitedly handed over the street sign to Rabbi Shech’s grandson, Mr. Doron Shech, in anticipation of his being placed in Zichron Olam.
