Posted on 09/28/18
| News Source: YWN
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As has become an annual event, philanthropist R’ Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz spoke at the Thursday night Simchas Bais Hashoeva at the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim. The event was attended by thousands of Yeshiva Bochurim, Kollel Yungerleit, and supporters of the Yeshiva – and watched by thousands more on live webcast.
In previous years, Rechnitz stunned the crowd as he pledged astronomical support to the Yeshiva and its Yungerleit. Additionally, it is widely known that when delivering speeches around the globe, Rechnitz tackles issues that many shy away from. One of those speeches occured in Lakewood where he spoke about children not being accepted into Lakewood Yeshivas.
On Thursday, R’ Shlomo Yehuda spoke about the too-long-lasting split in the Litvish community. This rift has torn apart families, Mosdos, and well known Yeshivas. It is known that Rechnitz gives donations to practically all Mosdos of Torah and Chesed – on all sides of the spectrum. He is deeply pained seeing where the current “Olam Hatorah” of the Litvish community stands.
The speech begins at around the 2:51:00 mark of the video embedded below, which is a full livestream of the event. Read more at YWN