[COMMUNICATED] In honor of the 115th Yahrtzeit of the Tal Chaim of Liska upcoming on 9 Iyar a trip to Liska, Hungary has been announced.

Liska is a revered name in Chasidishe circles from time immemorial and is universally regarded as one of the prominent Hungarian Chasidish dynasties that appealed to the masses for close to two hundred years yet hailed by scholars for its sharp and vast Torah scholarship.
A major effort to enhance the cemetery in Liska in time for the yahrtzeit, 9 Iyar underway! The committee “Bais Liska” has commenced a major project that will allow enhance the ability of the thousands of yearly mispalelim to reach the ohel of Admorei Liska by constructing a parking lot and new entrance to the Bais HaChaim.

Additionally, a lot adjacent to the Cemetery was purchased and a committee was established to help raise the funds necessary to purchase and level the land, clear the debris, receive permits from the municipality and oversee the actual construction.

Plans have been drawn up to build a suitable structure adjacent to the parking lot are being planned as well. This will accommodate the tens of thousands of mispalelim that visit the holy OHEL where the revered Rebbes of Liska are interred; a focal point of visitors to Hungary and where thousands have merited yeshuos.

Bais Liska under the direction of the current Liska Rebbe Shlita has been working diligently for many years to enhance the infrastructure of this project, in fact going back close to 40 years ago when the cemetery in Liska was in imminent danger and in great disrepair but thanks to the diligent efforts of HaRav Avrohom Friedlander, Hivnover Rov Shlita, son of previous Liska Rebbe ZT’L, Rabbi Zvi Kestenbaum and Reb Meyer Rispler, the Bais HaChaim in Liska was saved from total ruin.

Although it is Rav Tzvi Hersh of Liska author Ach Pri Tevuah and Hayasher V’hatov that is world famous, his son in law and successor Rav Chaim of Liska author of Tal Chaim on sugyas Hashas was acknowledged as an extraordinary gaon even in the generation that he lived and a recognized poel yeshous.

In fact, it was Sanzer Rov who documented the yichus of the Tal Chaim, upon his marriage to the daughter of the Ach Pri Tevuah, that the Tal Chaim is the 6th generation descendant from the Maharsha.

The trip will also be davening at his holy kever with a yahrtzeit seudah at the newly restored site of the shul which includes the last remaining wall that was preserved and reinforced, complemented by the construction of a corresponding wall where the entrance to the shul once stood. The Tal Chaim is buried alongside his father-in-law the Ach Pri Tevuah in the ohel in Liska.

Preceding the visit to Liska the group will also daven by the various tzadikim who are buried in the various towns of the Hungarian countryside.

For additional information, please contact [email protected] or call: 718-473-9867 x 8.