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Boruch Dayan Haemes – Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner OBM

It is with great sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid HaTomim HaShliach Yitzchok Dovid Groner OBM.

Rabbi Groner OBM, 83 years old, was the Head Shliach to Australia for past 50 years and director Lubavitch Yeshivah in Melbourne. He was brother to Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner the Rabbes secretary.

The Levaya will be in Melbourne and then he will be flown to Israel for burial.

Boruch Dayan Haemes

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  • Aussie

    “One single chassid or student who devotes his heart, mind and soul to Torah and to bolstering Torah, effects wonders in a large city, in all that city’s affairs – in a manner that transcends the natural order, by the merit of our Patriarchs, ”Fathers of the World.“ ”Hayom yom, daled tamuz
    Boruch dayan Haemes

  • Dov Oliver

    Rabbi Groner was simply put, in Ozzie terms; a Legend…, his life is an inspiration to us all as to just how much one determined person can achieve.

    It is impossible to estimiate the amount of advice, love and leadership he dispensed and most significantly how many lives he positively changed or effected for the better, certainly that was the

  • greer fay cashman

    It was my great good fortune to know Rabbi Yitzhok Dovid Groner Zatzal from the second or third year following his arrival in Australia.

    His home was open to everyone and he was always ready to listen and to help.

    A man who loomed larger than life, he was extraordinarily proud of Chabad’s success and influence in Australia in general and Melbourne in particular.

    Although I did not maintain contact with him after moving to Israel in 1973, some four or five years ago, when I returned to Melbourne for a family wedding, I called him and it was as if no time had passed.
    “You’re coming for Shabbes,” he said. It was a statement of fact, not an invitation. Although he was already very ill, he greeted me with the joy of a long lost relative and kept saying to others who came into the house, “Do you know who this is?”
    He had a wonderful knack for making everyone feel included.
    In his booming voice he asked searching questions, so that his visitor came away with the feeling that here was a man who was truly interested in other human beings.
    He was a remarkable and inspiring orator.
    He was equally inspiring when he davened as a Shaliach Tzibur.
    He carried the whole congregation on the wings of his enthusiastic outpouring to his Creator.
    It was truly awesome.
    He was a great man both in size and in intellect, and he scattered sparks of his greatness all over his environment.
    There was a special radiance in his face,especially when he smiled – which was quite often.
    He made such an impression that many people when they talked about him even with regard to events that happened a long time ago, spoke in the present tense, because somehow one didn’t speak about him in the past tense.
    Now, unfortunately, we will.
    We were all enriched by his being.
    We are all poorer for his passing.