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I'm here at the grave site of the great
Torah leader rabbi Torah
scholar Rabbi elzar silver in Cincinnati
Ohio today is
July
19th 2024 but the Hebrew day today is
youb
tamas youb thas is the birthday of the
previous who had a
relationship with Rabbi silver as can be
seen in Mark Randall's wonderful book
about the rabbis and leaders of
Orthodoxy throughout the years in
Cincinnati where he bring has the
picture of reab Yos gizok being greeted
by at that time Rabbi silver who was a
rabbi Springfield Massachusetts at that
time in 1930 I believe 2930 he came
there the rebi came there and of course
re Silva greeted him and he gave him a
$12 check which is printed reprinted in
the book you can also see the
S marking the section here for the
silvers his wife harit silver is right
here
basa and other family members let me
read to you what it says har nikar here
is buried har silver har silver
harav then his name harav
rezar Beav meaning the the son of the
rav that was his father's
name the genius of the generation the T
in the in Torah study of and in kind
acts benevolent Acts
his mighty
actions saving Jews during the
Holocaust Rabbi silver fought to free
more Jews get more visas and he
succeeded during the Holocaust
period
kakas manik
n
great EST
established rules and regulations and
order this great wondrous leader
established America the head of the
rabbis in America he was the head of the
Union of Orthodox rabbis in
America Zion pass away was 87 years
old 1968
may his soul be bound in life
now let me tell
you Rabbi silver was a litak rabbi
silver was not
a but his commitment to the reats whose
birthday is today and Divine Providence
has it that out of all the days that I
could have came to to his
Cav to his grave side is
today he helped the rebel
rats in many ways both before he came to
America when he visited America in 1929
and 30 raising funds for his brother and
the Reb rayat was raising funds for his
brother and left in in Russia which he
was forced out of and then later when he
came permanently to America in 1940 he
came to New York he settled there and
they bought the building the famous
building of course
770 he was in touch
with Rabbi silver our rebba also had
connection with Rabbi silver and so did
the other brother sonin-law
so Rabbi silver had a
connection to I would say like it says
to all rabbis he was a a rabbis Rabbi
but on the highest level one of the
things that he did was he was called
upon P to settle differences between
rabbis between congregation and rabbis
lawsuits uh
but court cases he was called upon
because of his great knowledge and his
activism he was probably you could say
the greatest rinic activist in America
he became Rabbi of the the synagogue
knesset Israel knesset Israel in 193 3 1
and he was the rabbi of that sh until
1968 till he passed away this section
show the section please this section of
the cemetery this whole this whole
cemetery is the plot of land that the
Cent Israel congregation owns and that's
why he's buried here there we have a
stone telling us about the ones who
actually uh founded the cemetery in the
1800s I believe um I saw there a a a a
stone from
tough so Rabbi silver today is the day
which the previous Reb not only it's his
birthday but he was released from
his punishment of hard labor which came
as a result of them putting them away
for initially they wanted to kill him
death and on Bas he went free and kabad
we celebrate today and tomorrow there's
no no it's a festive day so we came to
you to to pray to say a few words to God
Almighty and you can demand look at the
stones on top of his his grave over here
over there and the candles I see over
here you can Demand by Hashem for what
you did and I believe the Reby silver
was on the mark March in 1943 I believe
to Washington right he was in the front
lines he was the leader he was the the
the man walking in front Rabbi silver
laser they called him laser his full
name is elazer so this the Merit of you
and your wife and your family on the day
of you B thas go to God and ask Hashem
to bring mashia now not tomorrow and not
day later but right now how that'll
happen I'll leave it up to God God bless
you and God bless your soul and everyone
in
Cincinnati you have Jewish people I
don't care if you you know you belong to
reformed conservative Orthodox you have
a great Merit to come to such a Cav such
a place and pray here because he was a
very special person a very holy person
and his pedigree
of of what he
accomplished primarily in Cincinnati
from 1931 to 1968 speaks for itself so
this in this honor there will be
Redemption there will be happiness there
will be completion of of of the
wholesome Jewish experience and everyone
here will rise with the resurrection of
the Dead aain rebuilding the temple in
Jerusalem very SP nowadays
