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Rav Elyashiv’s legacy continues to resonate
By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNS.org
The indelible legacy that the late Rabbi Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, zt”l, has left on his community is still felt today.
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It is felt broadly through his halachic rulings on medical issues.
Tens of thousands of people visited his gravesite in Jerusalem’s Har Menuchot cemetery to mark his fourth yahrzeit last month. And a new documentary, “The Interpreter of G-d’s Word in our Time, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv: 1910-2012,” was recently shown on Israeli TV.
Rav Elyashiv died on July 18, 2012 at age 102. He and his wife, the late Sheina Chaya Levin, had 12 children.
The 90-minute film, which chronicles the rabbi’s life, tells his story from the perspective of those who knew him as a rabbi, teacher, family member and leader.
It focuses on Rav Elyashiv’s uncanny ability to delve into Jewish texts. For him, studying was like a drug. For 90 years, he sa