On Har Hamenuchos close to
the Kever of the Belzer Rebbe zt"l
there is the Kever of a Ba'al Habayis* R.
Eliezer Yosef Lederberg zt"l.
On his Matzeivah it is
inscribed that he was Marbitz Torah B'rabim.
He learned and Chazered
Meseches Beitzah & Meseches Rosh Hashana over 4,000 times.
The story :
R. Eliezer Yosef was
diagnosed with an eye disease that required
surgery. He was
told there is a chance the surgery won't be
successful and he will go
blind. He managed to postpone the
surgery for six
months. During that time he learned repeatedly
two Mesechtos by heart so if
he goes blind he will able to learn.
After the successful
surgery and not going blind, he thought
to himself since he had in
mind to learn these Mesechtos
for the rest of his life
there is no reason not to do so because
he didn't go blind. On the
contrary the more reason to thank
Hashem by learning and
Chazering again & again.
R. Eliezer Yosef wrote in his
Tzavo'oh that it might be worthed
to mention this on his
Matzeiva so others might get Chizuk
to learn and Chazer multiple
times.
*He had a stationery store
in Yerushalyim.
"*He had a stationary store in Yerushalyim."
ReplyDeleteThat should be stationery, with an e.
Stationary with an a means something else.
Thank you . I corrected it His stationery store was stationary
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