BDE: Harav Nachum Avraham Jakubowicz, OBM

With great sadness we report the passing of Harav Nachum Avraham Jakubowicz OBM, an elder chossid and veteren member of Anash of Antwerp, Belgium.

Born in Hungary on the 9th of Tammuz ה’תרפ”ו to Rabbi Shimon and Breindel, he was a survivor of the Second World War and studied under the tutelage of Rabbi Shneur Zalman Schneerson, the cousin of the Rebbe.

It was then that he became close to Chabad Chassidus, and was zoiche to see the Rebbe on his arrival in Paris in the spring/summer of 5767.

He is survived by his wife, Lana, and his children; Rabbi Yona Elimelech Jakubowicz (Kiryat Gat, Israel), Mrs. Bracha Mirel Zilberstrom (Yerushalayim, Israel), and Rabbi Shimon Yaakov Jakubowicz (Brooklyn, New York).

Levaya information to be announced.

Shiva information to be announced.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes