R’ Yehudah Eber, Head of Tomchei Temimim in Nevel and Otvotsk

By COLlive reporter

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This week’s episode is about R’ Yehudah Eber (1881–1942) who served as the head of various Tomchei Temimim yeshivas, including in Nevel, Warsaw, and Otvotsk. Tragically, he, along with other Chassidim, was murdered in 1942 during the Holocaust, when Nazis set fire to a Shul in Riga with the congregants inside.

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