Rav Moshe Aryeh Freund zt"l
הרב משה אריה בן ישראל פריינד זצ"ל
Elul 20 , 5756
Rav Moshe Aryeh Freund zt"l
Rav Moshe Aryeh Freund was born in 5664/1904 in the Hungarian town of Honiad, where his father, Rav Yisrael, served as Av Beis Din. His paternal grandfather was Rav Avrohom Yehoshua Freund, the Naszoider Rav. His mother was the daughter of Rav Zev Goldberger, the Rav of Honiad. He was a descendant of the Rema, the Maharshal, the Shach and the Bais Yosef.
At sixteen, he married the daughter of Rav Boruch Goldberger, a distant relative.
Before World War II, Rav Moshe Aryeh was Rosh Yeshiva in the Hungarian town of Satu Mare.
The Nazis arrested him and his entire family in 1944. The family was deported to Auschwitz, where only Rav Moshe Aryeh survived; his wife and all his nine children died there at the hands of the Nazis. Hashem yinkom damam.
In 5711/1951 Rav Moshe Aryeh moved to Eretz Yisrael, settling in Yerushalayim, where he became the Rav of the Satmar community. He was also Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Yetev Lev, the Satmar Yeshiva in Yerushalayim.
Following the petira of the Satmar Rebbe on the twenty-sixth of Av 5739/1979, Rav Moshe Aryeh was elected Rosh Av Bais Din (Ra’avad) of the Eida HaChareidis in Yerushalayim.
After the petira of Rav Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss in Sivan 5749/1989, Rav Moshe Aryeh was appointed Gaon Av Bais Din (Ga’avad) of the Eida HaChareidis, a position he held until his petira.
In his later years, fondly known as the Yerushalaymer Rav, he was considered a Rebbe. Despite having Satmar leanings, Rav Moshe Aryeh was close with all Gedolei HoRabbonim and Gedolei HaChassidus.
Rav Moshe Aryeh was niftar on the twentieth of Elul 5756/1996 at ninety-two and was buried on Har HaZeisim. He left no children.
Rav Moshe Aryeh was the mechaber of Ateres Yehoshua on the Torah.
Mosdos were named after him in Yerushalayim and in Beit Shemesh: Kiryas HaRem”a, Rem”a standing for Rav Moshe Aryeh.
Zecher tzaddik livrachah.
www.hamodia.com/features/day-history-20-elulseptember-15/
Segulos of Rav Moshe Aryeh Freund zt"l
Rav Moshe Arye quoted in the name of Tzaddikim that to eat kugel after Kiddush and before washing for the seuda (after the famous sholom bayis story with the Kozhnitzer Maggid) is a segula for marrying off children with harchovas hadaas – without worrying about expenses.
It happened one Friday, that Rav Moshe Arye stepped into the kitchen where the Shabbos meal was being prepared. The vapors of the dishes filled the kitchen. Said Rav Moshe Aryeh, “If the women knew the powerful remedies contained in the vapor of the Shabbos dishes, they would not leave the kitchen all week.” (Zemiros Ateres Yehoshua, page 22).
(Editor: My family personally witnessed Rav Moshe Arye giving shirayim at his tisch on Friday nights from kugel that was burning hot – straight from the oven – and calmly distributing it by hand even though none of the recipients could bear to hold onto the kugel.)