Rav Avrohom (Kokhav-Lev) Sternhartz zal – Yahrzeit – 20th of Elul – Speaker – R’ Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal

Rav Avrohom ben Devorah v’b’R Naftali Hertz Sternhartz zal passed away on the 20th of Elul 5715 (1955). He was the great-grandson of Rav Nasan of Nemirov zal and grandson of the Tcheriner Rav zal. Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal speaks about him on Rav Avrohom’s yahrzeit. (Recorded ca. 1972, based on a comment by R’ Nasan Maimon in a later hilula for Rav Avrohom zal.)

• 00:00 Introduction. When speaking about Rav Avrohom Sternhartz zal, we can only say: לְךָ֚ דֻמִיָּ֬ה תְהִלָּ֓ה – “Silence is praise…” (Tehillim 65:2).
• 02:26 “Let’s try to understand – what does a Tzaddik Emes do for us – what does he accomplish?” – Rabbi Rosenfeld zal.
• 04:45 The Tzaddik Emes/Shabbos separates Yismael from Esav and thereby subdues both powers of evil.
• 09:22 Rebbe Nachman hid his miracles.
• 12:23 “Rav Kokhav-Lev zal never took a vacation from Tikkun Chatzos” – Rabbi Rosenfeld zal.
• 13:03 “Every morning he was up for Vasikin [Shacharis at sunrise].”
• 14:55 Rav Kokhav-Lev zal knew the entire Likutey Moharan by heart.
• 15:36 Rav Moshe Breslever zal testified that Rav Kokhav-Lev’s shiur in Likutey Halakhos was given over exactly as his grandfather, Rav Nachman Tcherin zal, had said it. [Rav Nachman Tcherin was the close student of the author of the Likutey Halakhos, Rav Noson of Nemirov zal.]
• 16:54 Rav Kokhav-Lev zal was the Baal Tefilah for the Rosh Hashanah gathering in Uman for at least 50 years – [from the age of 22 until shortly before he was permitted to leave Russia to settle in Eretz Yisrael in 1936].
• 18:37 Closing blessing.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel