Photos: Mendy Hechtman
Family members, friends, Rabbis, Shluchim and former students of R’ Chaim Menachem Tiechtel obm of Jerusalem gathered to mark his first yartzeit this week.
Rabbi Tuvia Zilberstrom opened the evening, and a Siyum on Shas was made by his son, Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Tiechtel of Crown Heights.
The event included various speakers, who spoke about the unforgettable personality and work of Rabbi Teichtel, a scholar who had survived the Holocaust to build a family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of proud Chassidim and Shluchim.
Speakers included the Admor of Gorelitz, Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Rabbi Yochanan Gurary – Rav of Cholon and member of the Chabad Beis Din, Rabbi Shlomo Werner, Rabbi Shmuel Bransdorfer – Rav of Beis Shemesh, Rabbi Yechezkel Sofer, Rabbi Mordechai Bistritzky – Rav of Chabad of Tzfas and Rabbi Yisroel Gelis.
Are truly Tzaddikim! Such a shining example of who and what Chassidim are