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Rav Elyashiv’s mixed legacy
August 6, 2012 / Yoel Finkelman, Jewish Ideas Daily

(Jewish Ideas Daily) — Last Wednesday night, July 25, in the middle of a heat wave, a quarter of a million people flocked to the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.  At the request of the deceased, no eulogies were delivered, but for the rest of the week, the… Read more »