Deplorable and Tragic

As we prepare to celebrate Pesach, we are reminded that it has been an entire year without our late leader, the Novominsker Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow zt”l. Countless times during the past year we wished we could have had the Rebbe with us to seek his guidance. Instead, we were left trying to guess what the Rebbe would have said.

In commemoration of the Rebbe’s first yahrtzeit, a documentary film was produced (watch here), several speakers shared their memories at the Daf Yomi Siyum event on Sunday, and Agudah shared a collection of the Rebbe’s writings (here).

As Rabbi Aharon Feldman, Rosh Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, said this week, the Rebbe’s funeral was sadly notable because of the only dozen or so people who were allowed to attend due to COVID, rather than the tens of thousands that would have been expected for such a leader.