The late Rabbi Lipa Margaliot, head of the Torah Tamima Yeshiva in the United States, passed away on Shabbat Kodesh at the age of 94, with decades of Torah study and the establishment of Torah places in ultra-Orthodox America. ‘In the Haredi Rooms’ about the figure of the Rosh Yeshiva who was a Satmar follower and founded Lithuanian institutions
But heavy in the world of Torah in the USA, when the bitter news arrived from Brooklyn New York on the evening of Shabbat Kodesh about the departure of the good return of Rabbi Hanania Yom Tov Lipa Margaliot, Rosh Yeshivat Torah Tamima in Brooklyn and one of the greatest Torah builders in the United States .
The Rosh Yeshiva, who was a follower of Satmar, was born in Hungary to his father, the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Margaliot, who was a great scholar and rabbi of the city. He survived the Auschwitz camp in the terrible Holocaust, where his entire family was murdered and left alone in the world.
In miracles he came to America, and began his life anew. He studied at the Torah and Da’at Yeshiva and at the Beit Midrash Elyon Yeshiva, where he was approached by Rabbi Shraga Feibel Mendelovitz and the late Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky.
In the early 1970s, he founded the Torah Tamima Yeshiva in Brooklyn, a place that developed into one of the most prominent Torah institutions in ultra-Orthodox America. Rabbi Lipa ztl.
The students say that in his mind and spirit he always worked for the well-being of the students, paid a fortune to the wise students and educators who would beat Torah and reverence in his yeshiva, and treated them exceptionally well. Rabbi Lipa was personally involved in the progress of each and every one of his students.
Over the years he has established generations of students including yeshiva heads and Torah scholars. Over the years the yeshiva has expanded with branches in Staten Island, and yeshiva in Lakewood.
He had a special connection with the Rebbe of the Satmar House, who would often come to visit him and speak at yeshivas and institutions.
During his lifetime, his wife, Mrs. Deborah, and his eldest son, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Margaliot, passed away.
His funeral will take place today (Sunday) at 11:30 a.m. local time, from the Torah Innocent Yeshiva in Brooklyn to the House of Life in Kiryat Yoel Monroe where Whitman is buried.
May his soul be bundled in the bundle of life.