It is with much regret we inform you of the Petirah of the Gavad Harav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss Zatzal, who was Niftar Friday night at the hospital. He was 96.
The Gavad (Gaon Av Beis Din) of Yerushalayim for the Edah HaChareidis was appointed to the position in 2003, after having served as a dayan of the Machzike Hadass community of Antwerp, Belgium. Rabbi Weiss was a British national.
According to his late brother, he was born in Slovakia. He attended the local school in the mornings, and learned with a private melamed in the afternoons.
Before World War 2, he escaped Slovakia on a Kindertransport. He arrived with the Kindertransport in London in late May of 1939.
In London, Rav Weiss was hired as a maggid shiur at a yeshiva, and as a posek and rav of a shul. Later, he moved to Antwerp, where he served as a maggid shiur at a yeshiva in Wilrijk, and where he was appointed as dayan in 1967. In 2003, he was appointed as Gavad of Yerushalayim.
The Levaya is scheduled to take place at 10:00 AM Sunday at Kikar Zupnik in Yerushalayim. Kevurah on Har Hazeisim.
Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.
Pictured, is Rav Weiss in Lakewood in 2011.
Announcing the Levaya in Yerushalayim of the Gavad Zatzal
BDE. WAS he relatedto the minchas yotzchok
No, he was not.
Many biographical details are incomplete here, including his years in Gateshead Kollel as a Talmid of Rav Dessler.
He said a Shiur in Schlesinger’s Yeshiva in London, and when he said the Shiur, the Yeshiva was at its hayday. As soon as he left, its decline began.
It was not ‘a Yeshiva in Wilrijk’, it is ‘the Yeshiva in Wilrijk’, where he said a Halacha shiur to the bochurim.