Rav Bentzion Yadler zt"l
הרב בן ציון בן יצחק זאב ידלר זצ"ל
Av 15 , 5722
Rav Bentzion Yadler zt"l
All the days of the life of the Tzaddik Rabbi Bentzion Yadler were devoted to Torah and the fear of Hashem. His voice was heard in the cities of Eretz Israel for 70 years without interruption, a voice that awakened hearts to repentance and good deeds.
Let us examine just who this Tzaddik was, a man whom all the Jews of Eretz Israel loved and whose impassioned and awe-inspiring words were heeded.
Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Goldberg was a great Talmid Chacham and a wealthy man. At an early age he dispensed with all his business dealings in the city of Grodno and traveled to the port of Odessa on his way to Eretz Israel. In those times, the journey to Eretz Israel was not easy. The Turkish government, which was then in power, prohibited his family from settling down in the land of his ancestors. When Rabbi Yitzchak Zev arrived at the coast of Jaffa, his wife was hidden in a sack of potatoes. Thus when these sacks were being lowered off the ship, one of them contained the mother of Rabbi Bentzion Yadler!
Rabbi Yitzchak Zev remained in Jaffa with his wife for several weeks, as they awaited a caravan heading for Jerusalem on camels. The journey from Jaffa to Jerusalem lasted two days.
When they arrived in the holy city, Rabbi Yitzchak Zev tore his clothes (in accordance with Halachah), but when he proceeded to tear his wife’s clothes, she was seized with birth pangs and began to give birth. She bore a son, whom his father named Bentzion because he was born at the gates of Zion.
Like all children in Yerushalayim, the young Bentzion was educated in the famous Etz Chaim yeshiva, where he rose in the rungs of Torah and the fear of Hashem. At the age of 22, he received semichah from Rabbi Shmuel Salant’s Beis Din.
During that time, Jews in Eretz Israel had already spread beyond the walls of Jerusalem and begun to establish settlements. In a short time, new settlements were established in every corner of the land. Rabbi Ben Zion was appointed by Rabbi Shemuel Salant’s Beis Din to go from village to village in order to teach and watch over the separation of offerings and maaser, mitzvos dependent on the land.
Automobiles did not exist at that time, and Rabbi Bentzion would travel by donkey from Jerusalem to Metula, Mishmar Hayarden, Rosh Pina, and throughout the Galilee. Wherever he went, he would speak in synagogues, markets, and city streets, and his words – which emanated from a pure heart – entered the hearts of his listeners.
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