Rav Aharon Yechiel Leifer, the Nadvorna Rebbe of Tzefas (1912-2000). Rav Aharon Yechiel was born in Bania, Rumania, where his father, Dovid, served as Rebbe, a descendent of the famous Galitzean dynasty of Nodvorna rebbes. As a young man he served as the Rabbi of Shatz, his wife's birthplace, also in Rumania. He arrived in Israel shortly after the war of Liberation in 5708 (1948 C.E.). Previously he had lost an entire family in the Holocaust, but had married his deceased wife's sister and started a whole new family. Legendary in Tzefat for his hospitality and kindness to those in need, his home and Nezer Hakodesh shul were a center for Jews of all stripes for fifty-two years. In Yisrael, he became a chassid of the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe. Beloved equally by Chasidim, Sephardim and Ashkenazim, by Europeans, Israelis and Americans, his death a little before (or after!) the age of ninety marked the end of an era in Tzefat.
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