Rav Avrohom Weinberg of Slonim zt"l
הרב אברהם בן נח ווינברג זצ"ל
Sivan 12 , 5741
Rav Avrohom Weinberg of Slonim zt"l
Rabbi Avrohom Weinberg - the third, author of Birkas Avrohom (1889-1981), was born in Teveria to his father Rabbi Noach, grandson of the first Rabbi Avrohom Weinberg, author of Yesod HaAvodah, among leaders of Or Torah Yeshiva in Teveria and among founders of the Orthodox educational system in Eretz Yisroel. Following the Holocaust the elders of the Slonim Chassidism approached him and requested to coronate him as Rebbe, however he declined and was active in the coronation of his dear friend Rabbi Mordechai Chaim Slonim. Only after the demise of the Rebbe Rabbi Motel Slonimer in 1954 Rabbi Avrohom [who was at the time approximately sixty five years old] agreed to serve as leader of the congregation. He then moved to Yerushalayim and led the Chassidic congregation for approximately twenty seven years. Served as a member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah.
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Stories of Rav Avrohom Weinberg of Slonim zt"l
One of the Birkas Avraham’s descendants complained once to the rebbe regarding his difficulties in earning a living. The worries of parnasa were really troubling him and the Birkas Avraham strengthened him with the following words of chizuk:
Do you imagine that Hashem is only my merciful Father and not yours? Perhaps you think that to me He is a merciful Father figure whereas to you He is as a Grandfather or Great Grandfather? But that is incorrect, its wrong. He is your Father exactly as much as He is my Father, no more, no less! A Father worries about His children and takes care of them and their needs, we all have the same Father!” He then reminisced pleasantly about a previous conversation that his father Rav Noach of Tiveria had once had in his elder years with a young grandson: “Do you know my beloved grandson what the words in the Machzor mean: “HaShave uMashve Koton veGadol – that Hashem equates equally the young and old, the great and the lesser?” Come I shall explain this to you. You might think that Hashem listens to and hears the tefillos of an old man like myself with a long white beard, whereas the tefillos and prayers of a young lad such as yourself are less important to Hashem, so who bothers to listen to them or care? That is a mistake. You and I are mamash the same. Hashem makes us all equal, he equates and equalizes all of us with no difference whatsoever not even a hairsbreadth! His ears hearken unto the tefillos and requests of a young child no less than those of an elderly grandfather with a long white beard!” (MiSod Siach Chassidim, page 293)