Death
Rabbi Ruderman's death on July 11, 1987, the 14th of Tammuz, followed less than 18 months after the death of Rabbi Yaakov Kaminetsky and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Rabbi Ruderman was one of the last surviving Roshei Yeshiva (yeshiva heads) who came to America from Lithuania early in the 20th century.
His son-in-law, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, who married his only child, Chana, succeeded him as rosh yeshiva of Ner Yisroel.
Read more about this topic: Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste;
I run to death, and death meets me as fast,
And all my pleasures are like yesterday.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“They are girls. Green girls.
Death and life is their daily work.
Death seams up and down the leaf.
I call the leaves my death girls.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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Less than his wondrous life surpriz’d;
For if he like a madman liv’d
At least he like a wise one dy’d.”
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