BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Grodzenski, who passed away this week at the age of 91, was a distinguished rabbi known by many as “The Tzaddik of Bnei Brak” due to his fervent prayers and pure character. Rabbi Yitzhak, the son of Rabbi Avraham Grodzenski Hy’D who was the Mashgiach of the Slabodka Yeshiva, was one of the last survivors of the Kovno Ghetto still living.
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After surviving the Holocaust, he immigrated to Israel and became close to the Chazon Ish, whom he saw as his mentor. Rabbi Yitzchak founded the Toras Avraham Kollel in memory of his father and published his father’s Mussar writings. He was also a neighbor and close friend of Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman O.B.M, who used to stand in his honor when he visited him. Rabbi Yitzchak also served as the Baal Tefilla in Kolel Chazon Ish and the Steipler remarked about him that “the prayers of Rabbi Yitzhak are upholding the entire generation.”
A close friend of Rabbi Yitzchak who also survived the horrors of the Kovno Ghetto is Rabbi Yitzchak Gibralter, who recently published a memoir describing Jewish life in Lithuania before the Holocaust and the ordeals he went through during the Holocaust. Rabbi Yitzchak came to the Shiva of his friend and told an amazing story. He said that on Tuesday, the day Rabbi Grodzenski passed away, he had gone to sleep early without knowing what had happened. During the night he saw Rabbi Grodzenski in his dream looking happy and he told him that “I’m already in Gan Eden.” He woke up his children and told them the dream and they told him that Rabbi Yitzhak had passed away hours earlier.
Rabbi Yitzchak’s vivid firsthand story made a strong impression on the mourners and they were deeply moved to hear that their father had merited to appear in a dream to his close friend
No, nobody came to anyone in a dream. The dreamer dreamed during the night about things he thought of during the day.
Yes, he new that Rabbi Grodzensky was not doing well, and he also thought about the ghetto and the Gan-Eden that people deserve for living through the ghettos, so dreamed that dream at night.
Yes, he DID come in a dream to his close friend, because he was tzaddik an merited to GO STRAIGHT TO GAN EDEN AS HE RICHLY DESERVED.
to mr know it all whose handle is yakov
had you had the zechus to know this tzadik you wouldnt talk like that
this is not a bubbe maaseh from of the charity campaigns on the various sites etc
this man was a tzadik chosid anav beyond description
his ahavas yisroel of every yid was incredible
dont be so fast to belttle true stories
rather question the supposed miracles published after giving your credit card for a monthly charge for all the campaigns blasted on the sites
Most people unfortunately live in a cold dark world. They cannot see or intuit that the sun is really shining on the other side of those dark clouds. Yet with the right technology, one can rise above the gloom to see the presence of glorious sunshine. With the right emunah, tragedy can be put in perspective , painful loss can be assuaged – and the belief in a lichtige gan eiden can give hope and purpose. Some people dream, others have a vision. Even science demands it to be so, according to the First Law of Thermodynamics. Conservation of matter and energy dictates that the results of evil or good actions must be recorded and maintained in some form or fashion in order to avoid chaos or void. H-shem dispensed with Tohu vevohu when He created this world. Only He can maintain such a system of records and we can believe with a certainty in His eternal justice and love. Or……you can believe in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. Sadly, that would be a poor choice.