R’ Yitzchak Zilberstein relates that the Rabbanim of Remat Elchonon in Bnei Brak said many times to use the names of the Remat Elchonon streets in an honorable way. That is to say, one shouldn’t say “I live on Zonnenfeld Street or Ziemba Street” rather he should say “I live on Harav Zonnenfeld Street or Harav Ziemba Street.”
This was in order to honor these tzadikim even after they passed away.
A resident of Remat Elchonon related that when he was in Misrad Hapnim (Ministry of Interior) and said to the clerk that he lives on Harav Zonnenfeld Street, the clerk was amazed that the word “Harav” accompanied the street name. The clerk blurted out “Something like that you find only by the religious (chareidim), mentioning the gedolim in an honorable way.”
R' Yossi Kohl who was one of the students in the following story relates that R' Moshe Wolfson was once walking in Yerushalayim with his students on Rechov Rashi when R' Wolfson exclaimed, “Oh, I just thought of a certain explanation in Rashi.” He then proceeded to share it with them. R' Wolfson was then asked why Rechov Rashi which was given this name by a secular government would have anything to do with Rashi. R' Wolfson said that there is special Divine Supervision in Eretz Yisrael. As a result, if the street is called Rechov Rashi, even if the people who named it had a different intent, it means that at some spiritual level it somehow is connected to Rashi.
