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Journey to Jerusalem 2026: Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital Cemetery - The Kever of Rav Yosef Zvi Duschinsky

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

A journey to the cemetery of Rav Yosef Zvi Duschinsky in Jerusalem.

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We're here at a very historic location. We're outside of the old Shahit Sadic Hospital, surrounded by tremendous construction on all sides. You see the National Bird of Israel. You see the crane right here. And we're right outside the Kissa of the city. And outside of the old charit hospital is a very small cemetery where the Dashinsky Reba is buried. Now, he was nipped there in 1949. This was at a time that the Arabs took control of Harazim in the war of independence. So he couldn't go to Harazim. So he's buried in this small area outside of the old Shahed Sadek hospital. Ravo Sri Dinski was born in 1867. He's known as Maharitz. Yo Sri Dinsky. He was born in Pak in Hungary to his parents Rabis and Sarah Elka. His father was a sipher. And as a young boy he was uh discovered to be brilliant. And he was primed to become a god of be Israel if he would be guided properly. And he was sent away from home under bar mitzvah. And he tried to hide his young age because he was so advanced that when his bar mitzvah came he didn't want people to know that he just became baritzah. The rashiva was aware though of this milestone. So the rashiva honored him of saying dorra on that day in lie of a formal baritzhat. And after thehativa kissed him on the head, he said, "I am guarantee that you will be one day

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  3. 1:01And he was primed to become a god of be Israel if he would be guided…
  4. 1:32a great god will be." So he went to learn by the of shim and then…
  5. 2:02final words of Rabim Zunfeld he said to Dashinsky stay here which was understood to mean…
  6. 2:33became the head of the Adah Karedas. For 15 years, Ribbash Shinsky was the chief rabbi…
  7. 3:05uh was most renowned for being a great marabitz tora for many many decades. He established…
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