Rav Refoel Dovid Auerbach zt"l
הרב רפאל דוד בן חיים יהודה לייב אוירבך זצ"ל
Cheshvan 24 , 5748
Known As: Refoel Dovid, Rosh Yeshiva of Shaar Shomayim
Father's Name: Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
Rav Refoel Dovid Auerbach zt"l
When Rabbi Refoel Dovid Auerbach became the rosh yeshiva, he succeeded in establishing a permanent home for the yeshiva at 71 Rashi Street in 1992:
When Rav Chaim Leib's son, Rav Refoel Auerbach, assumed leadership of the yeshiva after his father's petiroh and tried to fulfill his father's testament that it move into a large, spacious building of its own. With the help of Rabbi Reuven Saron, negotiations were entered into with the owners of the present building on Rechov Rashi and with another of the yeshiva's foremost supporters, Rabbi Pinchas Hoffman. The deal was eventually settled and the building was bought for the yeshiva.
When the supporter returned to Eretz Yisroel several months later he paid a visit to HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt'l, another of HaRav Chaim Leib's sons, who worked to strengthen the yeshiva all his life and served as its president for many years. He was stunned to hear the following from Reb Shlomo Zalman:
"My brother Reb Refoel passed away exactly thirty days after the building was purchased. Those thirty days were among the happiest of his life. For years he had been deeply worried that he might pass away before managing to fulfill his promise to our father to build a home for the yeshiva. With the contract signed and the purchase completed his promise to our father zt'l was fulfilled and he `returned in peace to Father's house' (see Bereishis 28:21)."
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