Rebbe’s Teachings to Be Studied in Mashpia’s Memory

On Sunday, 19 Cheshvon, the Chabad-Lubavitch community lost one of its most influential and scholarly members, Rabbi Elimelech Zweibel, OBM.  In his memory, the Rabbinical College of America, where he taught for half a century, has instituted a “chaluka” of the Rebbe’s teachings to be learned over the next 12 months.

Writes RCA Dean Rabbi Moshe Herson:

On Sunday, 19 Cheshvon, the Chabad-Lubavitch community lost one of its most influential and scholarly members, Rabbi Elimelech Zweibel, OBM.

Rabbi Zweibel was the Rabbinical College of America’s Mashpia Roshi for about 50 years.  Thousands of RCA students were educated by him.

In his memory, the RCA has instituted a “chaluka” of Toras Rabeinu to be learned over the next 12 months.

Over the recent yomim tovim, he and his wife visited their children in California and Oregon.  When a third child asked them to remain one more day in California in order to attend the Upsherinish of his grandson he responded that “classes are once again beginning  at the RCA in Morristown; that is a responsibility I cannot overlook.”  Rabbi Zweibel and his wife took the next flight in order to arrive in Morristown in time for the classes.

He was a teacher par excellence.  He will be greatly missed by the RCA and Chabad in general.

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