It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Mrs. Miriam Stern a”h, the wife of Rav Dovid Asher HaKohen Stern. She was 62.

The levayah proceeded Monday afternoon from her home in Bnei Brak to the Ponovezh Cemetery, where she was brought to kevurah.

In light of her petirah, the daily shiur delivered by her brother, Rav Asher Arielli, at Yeshivas Mir was not given.

Mrs. Stern was born during Sukkos 5724 (1963) to Rav Chaim Yaakov Arielli, zt”l, one of the outstanding gedolei Torah of the previous generation and the author of the sefer Be’er Yaakov. She was a granddaughter of Rav Yitzchak Arielli, zt”l, author of Einayim LaMishpat, and of Rebbetzin Shulamis, daughter of Rav Asher Sternbuch, zt”l, of London.

She was raised in a home permeated with Torah, yiras Shamayim, and noble middos, and was privileged to descend from some of the most illustrious Torah families in the Lithuanian and Brisker world.

On her mother’s side, she was a niece of the senior posek, Rav Moshe Sternbuch; Rav Eliyahu Sternbuch, zt”l, Av Beis Din of Machzikei Hadas in Antwerp; and Rav Chanoch Ehrentreu, zt”l, Av Beis Din of London; and the wife of Rav Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, zt”l, rosh yeshiva of Brisk.

Throughout her life, she stood devotedly at the side of her husband, Rav Dovid Asher HaKohen Stern, and together they established a distinguished bayis ne’eman b’Yisroel, built upon Torah and yiras Shamayim, with exceptional tznius, in their home on Rechov Rambam in Bnei Brak. She was known for her many acts of chesed, her quiet humility, and the gracious manner in which she received every person.

Her brothers are counted among the leading marbitzei Torah of the generation: Rav Asher Arielli, , who delivers the largest daily shiur in the world at Yeshivas Mir; Rav Shmuel Arielli, rosh yeshiva of Chevron HaChadashah; and Rav Shlomo Arielli, a marbitz Torah at Yeshivas Tchebin and editor of the writings of Rav Akiva Eiger.

Tehei nishmasah tzerurah bitzror hachaim.