BROOKLYN, NY — Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, who was one of the leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch educational activities in Morocco for close to 50 years, died Saturday night in New York. He was 91.
The news came as a shock to the thousands of Lubavitch emissaries who had gathered in New York for their annual international conference.
Force Behind Growth of Moroccan Jewry Passed Away at 91
BROOKLYN, NY — Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, who was one of the leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch educational activities in Morocco for close to 50 years, died Saturday night in New York. He was 91.
The news came as a shock to the thousands of Lubavitch emissaries who had gathered in New York for their annual international conference.
Matusof, a Russian native and veteran Lubavitch emissary who endured imprisonment at the hands of Soviet authorities before being sent to Morocco in 1950 by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, worked tirelessly to shepherd the Jewish community in North Africa. Through the years, the Lubavitch network of yeshivas counted some 70 separate institutions, producing thousands of graduates, including current Chief Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar.
In his letter appointing Matusof as an assistant to Rabbi Michoel Lipsker, the Rebbe highlighted the public nature of a Lubavitch emissary.
Instead of private individuals, emissaries are “candles that illuminate all their surroundings and Ö people who live and grant vitality to another person, another two people, another three, etc.,” the Rebbe wrote in Hebrew in a letter dated Aug. 9, 1950. “The fruits [of these efforts] will produce fruit and further generations of fruit for eternity.”
shaina mushka
He was a very great torah scolar, and was a great tzadik.
Moshe
The passing of a 91 year old came as a shock? Interesting.