Remembering my Rebbi, Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein z"l

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

i want to dedicate tonight's class and maybe even say a few words in memory of my rebbe rabbi zacharia wallerstein zacharya shimon hakoen ben yitzhak who passed away between our last class and this class unfortunately only 64 years old it hit us like a ton of bricks those of us who knew him who were part of the community in brooklyn that he influenced so much uh part of the online community that he uh part of the online community that he influenced so much rabbi wilderstein had uh many many i don't know maybe hundreds of published classes lectures on torah anytime and other platforms he spoke around the world and he had many institutions that he started to help jews of all walks of life to connect to judaism whether they were people who grew up orthodox their entire life uh and remained so and just wanted to uh and remained so and just wanted to continue learning and growing people who had left the fold but whom rabbi wallace dean was giving an opening for them to return to the fold people who had never been in the fold of orthodox judaism whom rabbi wallistein was able to reach and bring close to the torah being close to hashem the thousands and thousands of lives that he impacted myself included really cannot be understated and my own story with everybody wallerstein started 20 years ago more than 20 years ago

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