הלווית זקן ראשי הישיבות הרב אליקים שלזינגר זצ"ל ר"י הרמה לונדון | Levaya: Rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger

Rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger, the head of Yeshivas Harama in North London, was seen as one of the last remaining links to both pre-war and early-post war Torah sages, many of whom he corresponded or studied with. He was born in 1921 in Vienna, into a highly respected Rabbinic family. A decade later, his parents decided to emigrate to the British Mandate, moving to Tel Aviv and therefore avoiding the horrors that would shortly beset Europe. After the war, however, he was encouraged by the Rabbi of the Brisk Yeshiva, one of the most esteemed institutions of Jewish learning, to move to Europe in order to help strengthen Torah learning there. He spent several years in Belgium, before moving to London in 1961, where he established the yeshiva which he would lead for more than six decades. A crowd gathered at Yeshivas Harama in Stamford Hill in the wake of the news. Rabbi Schlesinger was eulogised in Yiddish by a number of speakers at the Yeshiva before the burial, which took place at the Adath Yisroel cemetery in Enfield. The Jewish Community Council (JCC) of London said in a statement: “We mourn the shocking and tragic passing of Rabbi Elyokim Schlesinger, zt”l, head of Yeshiva Harama,