Dirshu rabbanim daven at Chofetz Chaim kever

Venerated Rabbonim and Poskim walked slowly, heads bent in hachnaah, as they approached the admas kodesh (holy soil) where the Chofetz Chaim is buried in the ancient Jewish cemetery Radin. 

They wept openly as the Mashgiach, HaGaon HaRav Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky, shlita, stood in front of the kever, hand raised to shomayim, eyes closed, saying, “How many tears have poured forth at this holy place begging Hashem that in your zechus, heiliger Rebbe, Yidden should experience yeshuos!”

Rav Mishkovsky, continued, “Heiliger Rebbe, may your zechus be a meilitz yosher on all Yidden and on all lomdei Dirshu and in your zechus may Dirshu continue to facilitate so much limud haTorah, please grant them the siyatta diShmaya to help so many Yidden learn the seforim of the Chofetz Chaim and spread his Torah. We beg Hashem, halevai!”

The visit to the kever also featured tefillos and Tehillim led by HaGaon HaRav Binyomin Finkel, shlita, Mashgiach of the Mir Yeshiva and a potent tefillah to be said at the Chofetz Chaim’s kever especially written for the occasion by the well-known mekubal and Rosh Yeshiva of Ahavat Shalom, HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Hillel, shlita. 

The Dirshu delegation arrived in Radin on 13 Shevat (Feb. 2). The trip was undertaken in advance of the siyum of the first machzor of Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program. Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha, the popular daily halacha program, features the learning of a daily Daf of Mishnah Berurah along with a short daily portion of mussar from one of the Chofetz Chaim’s numerous mussar seforim.