Addressed to the Ezrat Torah aid society on behalf of Rabbi Moshe Turk Z”l.
Maran the great Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner [1913-2015] one of Gedolei Hador, Amud Hora’ah. Most of the Morei Hora’ah and Poskim of the recent generation were his disciples or members of his Beis Din. He was a leading disciple of Maran the Maharam Shapiro of Lublin and the Mashgi’ach Rabbi Shimon of Zelichiv, Rabbi Shmuel David Unger of Nietra and Rabbi Yosef Elimelech Kahana of Ungvar.
On the advice of Maran the Chazon Ish, he was appointed the Rav of Zichron Meir. Already in his youth, Maran Kedosh Aharon of Belz said of his yeshiva and Beis Hora’ah that ‘four cubits of Halacha in our days are located in Zichron Meir with Rabbi Wosner’.
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Rabbi Moshe Turk was known as one of the greatest mechanchim of recent generations and one who was privileged to study under gedolei Torah.
He was born on the 26th of Tammuz in Pressburg to his father, Rav Dov Halevi Turk. For decades, he led Talmud Torah Yesodei HaTorah in Tel Aviv, where he taught generations of talmidim. Rav Moshe was famously a ben bayis at the home of the Chazon Ish. He was also close to Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach and the Shefa Chaim of Sanz.
His children include Rav Eliezer Turk, Rav Dov Turk, Rav Yosef Tzvi Turk, Rav Yaakov Turk, Mrs. Kowalski, and the wives of Rav Chaim Dovid Kowalski, Rav Aharon Blau, Rav Shmuel Wolf, and Rav Hershel Gombo. He was predeceased by his daughter, Mrs. Miriam Gombo a”h.
For more about his life see the new Sefer ‘לדמותו של מחנך’.
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