The crowds that arrived yesterday for the huge funeral of the late Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky returned to their homes on Sunday evening, and almost immediately afterwards a march began to comfort mourners in the small house at 23 Rashbam Street in Bnei Brak. Rabbi Kanievsky's sons, accompanied by his grandchildren, received the many critics who recounted the deeds and masterpieces of the elderly rabbi who passed away.
"We feel like orphans," Avraham, a Jerusalem resident who stood next to Rabbi Kanievsky's home, told Israel Today.
"The status of the funeral was very strengthening, and the reading of tens of thousands who said together 'Hear Israel' was amazing. Now we are trying to recover."
Although a million people did not attend the funeral in the end, as is initially estimated, the ultra-Orthodox see the funeral as a huge demonstration of admiration and sanctification of the name.
“The masses came to accompany Rabbi Kanievsky and chanted‘ Blessed be the glory of his majesty forever and ever ’together.
Is there more powerful than that? ", David moved from Bnei Brak.
Rabbi's House, Photo: Rabbi Kanievsky's Office
Among the comforters was also Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, Rabbi Kanievsky's partner in leading the ultra-Orthodox community.
In addition, public figures came to the scene, including Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and MK Yitzhak Pindros. "He was a great man, who encouraged charity and Torah study all the time," the defense minister said while comforting the mourners. .
He spoke of the unity of Israel, "he noted. In the coming days, rabbis and other public figures are expected to arrive to pay their respects to the great generation of the ultra-Orthodox generation.
Masses at the funeral of Rabbi Kanievsky, Photo: IPI
Simultaneously with the condolence of the mourners at Rabbi Kanievsky's home, "eulogy rallies" will be held in the ultra-Orthodox community in the cities and in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in the big cities as early as Sunday evening, after the funeral, and these will continue throughout the Shiva.
Thus, yesterday in a beit midrash in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, Rabbi Avigdor Nevenzal and Rabbi Chaim Peretz Berman, leaders of the Ponivez Yeshiva and the Hazon Ish Kollel in Bnei Brak, addressed the Rebbe of Sanz and the Rabbi of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Shevach Zvi Rosenblatt.
"Our Private Father Died"
"The importance of Rabbi Kanievsky cannot be overstated, and we mourn him as if our private father had passed away," explained one of those present outside the house in Bnei Brak.
"The problem is that most people can't get to seven, and it's also not always that physically possible."
The ultra-Orthodox news sites also devote most of their attention to the death of the rabbi.
On the website of the Haredi rooms, they brought documentation of a rabbi who made Rabbi Kanievsky laugh under the heading "rare documentation" and dealt with the masterpieces of the elderly rabbi.
The Shabbat Square website dealt with a story that expressed Kniewski's humility and provided documentation of his father's death, known as the "Stapler."
The Actualik website paid attention to the rerun of the huge funeral and dealt with the daily routine of Rabbi Kanievsky, and the Haredim 10 website told about the crowds who sat and studied Torah while waiting for the funeral.
The ultra-Orthodox press was particularly moved by a large article published in the New York Times about the death of Rabbi Kanievsky.
"The size of Rabbi Kanievsky's funeral reflected the admiration of the ultra - Orthodox in Israel for the deceased," it read.
"The rabbi did not have an official position, but he is considered the leader of the so - called Lithuanian Jews, about a third of the 1.1 million ultra - Orthodox in Israel."
"Every day, hundreds of people would line up outside Rabbi Kanievsky's home to seek his guidance on urgent medical and political issues, and even what household appliances they should buy."
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