Death
He died on December the 29th, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 77. A crowd of more than two thousand people gathered in the Lamport Auditorium of Yeshiva University as a final mark of respect to, what the Yeshiva press release referred to as, one of the greatest rabbis and roshei yeshiva of the generation.
The eulogisers included Rabbis Samuel Belkin and Joseph Ber Soloveitchik representing Yeshiva University, and Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz representing the Agudath HaRabbanim. From Yeshiva University, he was taken to Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem where eulogies were delivered by Rabbis Moshe Feinstein, Yosef Eliyahu Henkin and Avraham Kalmanowitz, among others. A large crowd of mourners headed by Rabbi Aharon Kotler also gathered at the New Jersey airport from where Shatzkes was taken to his burial on Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem. His funeral was attended by chief rabbis, Israeli roshei yeshiva and members of the Israeli Knesset.
He was survived by his sons: Rabbis Avraham Aharon (a rosh yeshiva at RIETS from 1944 until his death in 1983); and Aryeh Leib, a rosh yeshiva at Mesivta Torah Vodaas; and a daughter Chana, who married Rabbi Zvi Levenberg, a rosh yeshiva in Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, (son of Rabbi Yehuda Levenberg, founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven, Connecticut). A daughter, Itel, perished with her husband and young daughter at the hands of the Nazis.
Shatzkes wrote many Responsa and Novellae on a plethora of subjects. The vast majority were destroyed when he left Poland in 1940 — indeed he often said that his greatest loss, above all that had happened to him during a lifetime of tragic misadventure, was the loss of his writings, a loss from which he never truly recovered. His vast library of seforim was buried in the forests of Łomża for safekeeping before he left and has never been recovered.
A kollel bearing his name was established as a lasting memorial at Kfar Hasidim in Israel. It was attached to the Knesses Chizkiyahu yeshiva, named after Shatzkes's brother-in-law, Rabbi Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky, rav of Krinik, Poland.
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| Name | Shatzkes, Moshe |
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| Date of birth | 1881 |
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| Date of death | 1958 |
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