Rav Mordechai Zuckerman - כ חשון - #830

Yahrtzeit Yomi #830!! כ חשון (Shabbos) Rav Mordechai Zuckerman רב מרדכי ליב ב״ר דוד נחמי׳ מאיר עיני ישראל (1910 - 2003) 20 Cheshvan (Shabbos) was the 20th yahrtzeit of Rav Mordechai Leib Zuckerman, author of Meir Einei Yisrael (1912-2003). He was born in Samagron, a city near Vilna. In 1931, he moved to Radin to learn with the Chafetz Chaim. After the petirah of the Chafetz Chaim, Rav Mordechai Leib stayed in Radin for eight more years. During the war, he arrived in the Kovna ghetto, where he acted as shamash for Rav Avraham Grodzinsky, the mashgiach of Slabodka. As Rav Avraham's talmid muvhak, he transcribed his mentor's discourses and studied with him privately bechavrusa when Rav Avraham was hospitalized. Subsequently, the Nazis burned down that hospital and Rav Mordechai Leib was the last person to have seen Rav Avraham alive. When the Nazis decided to liquidate the entire ghetto, Rav Mordechai Leib was saved by a miracle when he hid in a pit with a few others. In 1948, he moved to Yerushalayim. When he settled in Givat Shaul, he accepted the positions of rav of the Perushim shul and the head of Kollel Chevron there. He occupied those positions for over 50 years. יהי זכרו ברוך!!