The late Rabbi Shalom David Strauss, one of the rabbis of the Great Synagogue in Bnei Brak, passed away at the age of 94. He was a reader for 40 years at the Rashbi yeshiva in Bnei Brak and left behind a blessed generation of righteous people. His funeral at noon in Bnei Brak
Baruch Dayan the truth: Rabbi Shalom David Strauss, the late Rabbi of the largest synagogue in the city, died today in Bnei Brak. He was 94 years old at the time of his death.
The late deceased was born in Germany in 1873 to his father, the late Rabbi Baruch Strauss, who fled to London just before the cursed holocaust and thus the family was saved.
He was famous in the city of Bnei Brak as one of the collectors of the great synagogue where he took care of the honor of the synagogue in a wonderful way. He would see to it that the words of the Geniza were not discredited.
For years he worked for a living at the elevator company ‘Schindler Nehushtan’ where he served as a senior manager in the field of finance, and he did his job faithfully and his teachings were constant, he would sit and study and was known as a scholar who knew how to learn.
For forty years he served as a reader on Shabbat at the Rashbi yeshiva in Bnei Brak, he was meticulous in his reading in a special way and was an exemplary character with good manners and brightening the face of each and every person.
Although he belonged to the Lithuanian sector, he was a frequent thinker in Hasidic books, also two of his sons were drawn into the Hasidic world to the courts of Vizhnitz and Ndvorna.
Until his last day he did not walk with a cane despite his extreme age, several years ago he was injured in an accident and within a period he recovered as if he were a young man.
His acquaintances tell of an active man who never wasted a single moment, always engaged in activity and all in order to make the most of the time.
He won and left behind sons and daughters, sons-in-law, grandsons and great-grandsons, God bless him.
The funeral procession today at 2:30 p.m. from his home on Rabbi Eliezer Street 3 in Bnei Brak through the Great Synagogue to Beit Chaim Segolah Petah Tikva Shem Yatman.
May his soul be bundled in the bundle of life.