Rav Eliezer Geldzahler zt"l
הרב אליעזר בן אליהו יהושע געלדצאלר זצ"ל
Kislev 9 , 5765
Father's Name: Eliyohu Yehoshua Geldzahler
Rav Eliezer Geldzahler zt"l
Rav Eliezer Geldzahler was born to Rav Eliyohu Yehoshua Geldzahler, founder of Mosdos Ohr Yisrael of Queens and a talmid of Rav Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz, Rav Reuven Grozovsky, and Rav Gedalia Schorr. Rav Eliezer’s mother, Henna Freidel, was the daughter of Rav Eliyohu Eliezer Dessler. As a child, he learned in his father’s Yeshiva, where he made a siyum for Gemora Bova Basra before his bar mitzva. As a bochur, he learned in Yeshiva Zichron Yaakov in South Fallsburg under Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel. From there, he went to Yerushalayim to learn in the Yeshiva of Rav Dovid Soloveitchik. He spent several years in the Lakewood kollel. In 1980, he married Baila, the daughter of Rav Michel and Rebbetzin Feige Twerski of Milwaukee. He opened Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael in Brooklyn and served as its Rosh Yeshiva, developing a mesivta and a Yeshiva Gedola. In January of 2004, the bus he was on in Eretz Yisrael was involved in a crash, and he was critically injured. He never recovered from his injuries and passed away ten months later.