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I'm here at the grave site of the great
leader tah scholar Rabbi elzar silver in
Cincinnati Ohio today is
July
19th 2024 but the Hebrew day today is
youth
Bas youth thas is the birthday of the
previous who had a
relationship with Rabbi Sil
as can be seen in Mark Randall's
wonderful book about the rabbis and the
leaders of Orthodoxy throughout the
years in
Cincinnati where he bring has the
picture of reab ysf yok being greeted by
at that time Rabbi silver who was a
rabbi Springfield Massachusetts at that
time in 1930 I believe 2930 he came
there the rebi came there and of course
re Silva greeted him and he gave him a
$12 check which is printed reprinted in
the book you can also see the
S marking the section here for the
silvers his wife harit silver is right
herea and other family members let me
read to you what it says har nikar here
is buried har silver har
silver har then his name harav
reeler harav mean this the son of the
rav
re that was his father's
name the genius of the generation the in
Torah
study and in kind acts benevolent
acts his mighty
actions saving Jew
during the
Holocaust R silver fought to free more
Jews get more visas and he succeeded
during the Holocaust
period kakon G ticket manik
n
great
established rules and regulations and
order this great wondrous
leader
established America the head of the
rabbis in America he was the head of the
Union of Orthodox rabbis in
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America z pass away was 87 years
old
1968 may his soul be bound in in in life
now let me tell
you Rabbi silver was a litak rabbi
silver was not
a but his commitment to the re rats
whose birthday is today and Divine
Providence has it that out of all the
days that I could came to to his
Cav to his gravide is
today he helped the Reber
rats in many ways both before he came to
to America when he visited America in
1929 and 30 raising funds for his Breen
the re rayat was raising funds for his
brotherr and left in in Russia which he
was forced out of and then later when he
came permanently to America in 1940 he
came to New York he settled there and
they bought the building the famous
building of course
770 he was in touch with Rabbi silver
our rebba also had connection with Rabbi
silver and so did the other brother son
of
the rabari
gari so Rabbi silver had a
connection to I would say like it says
to all rabbis he was a a rabbis Rabbi
but on the highest level one of the
things that he did was he was called
upon to settle differences between
rabbis between congregation and rabbis
lawsuits uh but they
court cases he was called upon because
of his great knowledge and his activism
he was probably you could say the
greatest Rabbi activist in America he
became Rabbi of the the synagogue
knesset Israel knesset Israel in
1931 and he was the rabbi of that sh
until 1968 they passed away this section
show the section please this section of
the cemetery this whole this whole
cemetery is the plot of land that the
Cent Israel congregation owns and that's
why he's buried here there we have a
stone telling us about the ones who
actually uh founded the cemetery in the
1800s I believe um I saw there a a a a
stone from 1883
so Rabbi silver today is the day which
the previous re not only it's his
birthday but he was released from
his punishment of hard labor which came
as a result of them putting them away
for initially they wanted to kill him
death
andas he went free and kabad we
celebrate today and tomorrow there's no
it's a festive day so we came to you to
to pray to say a few words to God
Almighty and you can demand look at the
stones on top of his his grave over here
over there and the candles I see over
here you can Demand by Hashem for what
you did and I believe the rabbi silur
was on the march in 1943 I believe to
Washington right he was in the front
lines he was the leader he was the the
the man walking in front Rabbi silver
laser they called him laser his full
name is elazer so this the Merit of you
and your wife and your family on the day
of you B thamos go to God and ask Hashem
to bring mashia now not tomorrow and not
a day later but right now how that'll
happen I'll leave it up to God God bless
you and God bless your soul and everyone
in
Cincinnati you have Jewish people I
don't care if you you know you belong to
reformed conservative Orthodox you have
a great Merit to come to such a Cav such
a place and pray here because he was a
very special person a very holy person
and his pedigree of of what he
accomplished primarily in Cincinnati
from 1931 to 1968 speaks for itself
so this and this honor there will be
Redemption there will be happiness there
will be completion of of of the
wholesome Jewish experience and everyone
here will rise with the resurrection of
the Dead aain rebuilding the temple in
Jerusalem very SP in now days
