Dr. Shlomo Sprecher, 64, OBM

By COLlive reporter

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Sprecher, a resident of Flatbush who uniquely embodied greatness in Torah and mastery in medicine, passed away on Thursday, 18 Adar 5777.

He was 64.

Dr. Stanley Sprecher, a Nuclear Medicine specialist, received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

“He was a brilliant radiologist and a very observant Yid,” said Dr. Aaron H. Bennish who worked at Peninsula Hospital Center in Far Rockaway, Queens, where Dr. Sprecher served as chairman of radiology.

“I got to ride with him back to Brooklyn. He would drop me at Kings Plaza where I could get the B44 bus back to Crown Heights,” Dr. Bennish told COLlive.com. “He was very supportive of Chabad Lubavitch, although his family was Belz.”

In addition to his medical knowledge, Dr. Sprecher was a talmid chacham who learned and expanded his knowledge in halacha and Gemara, with a particular interest in the history of science and halachic ramifications.

He would give a shiur at Congregation K’hal Sasregen in Flatbush. He was a mayan hamisgabeir, a wellspring of knowledge and insight, Matzav.com wrote about him. He delivered hundreds of shiurim and authored dozens of articles on a wide range of Torah topics.

“Usually as he was driving, I helped him prepare his Daf Yomi shiur which he gave in the evening after finishing a full day in the hospital!”Dr. Bennish recalls.

When the Rebbe suffered a disabling stroke while praying at Ohel on Monday, the 27th of Adar I, 5752 (March 2, 1992), Dr. Sprecher was one of the physicians who were asked to share their expertise in treating the Rebbe.

Dr. Sprecher has been part of the medical staff for the next 2 years, working mostly out of his office reviewing the x-rays and MRIs, until on the 3rd of Tammuz 5754 (June 12, 1994), the Rebbe’s soul ascended on high, orphaning a generation.

The levaya took place on Thursday from Shomrei Hadas Chapels in Boro Park, Brooklyn.

Baruch Dayan Haemes.