The Williamsburg community is mourning the petirah of Rav Chaim Tzvi Ehrenreich zt”l, Gaavad of Shamloi and mechaber of Maayan Yeshuah, who was niftar on the second day of Rosh Hashanah after meriting to hear the shofar. He was 94.

Rav Chaim Tzvi zt”l, a distinguished link to generations of illustrious Hungarian gedolim and tzaddikim, had been ill for a relatively brief period. He remained lucid until his final hours and was niftar on Rosh Hashanah after hearing the tekios.

The niftar was the son of the noted mohel, Rav Yehoshua Ehrenreich zt”l of Yerushalayim, who was a son of the renowned Rav Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich zt”l Hy”d, the Shamloier Rov and author of Even Shlomo and other sefarim. Rav Shlomo Zalman was murdered al kiddush Hashem during the Holocaust, together with a portion of his precious Torah manuscripts.

Rav Chaim Tzvi was also a descendant of the Kol Aryeh, and his distinguished lineage extended to Rav Tzvi Hirsch of Liska, the Tal Chaim, and other leading rabbanim and Torah luminaries of prewar Hungary.

He was the son-in-law of Rav Moshe Dov Weisberg zt”l, one of the distinguished talmidei chachamim of Yerushalayim, who was a son of Reb Chaim Shlomo Zalman Weisberg z”l and a descendant of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta.

Throughout his long life, Rav Chaim Tzvi was known for his extraordinary breadth and sharpness in all areas of Torah, including Pardes. He was particularly renowned for his knowledge of gematrios and parperaos lachochmah, which he developed and wove together based upon the teachings of Toras hachein.

He committed a large body of his Torah thoughts to writing. Portions of those writings were published in a series of kuntreisim bearing the name Maayan Yeshuah.

With his petirah, the Torah world lost a figure described by those who knew him as a continuously flowing wellspring of Torah and drush. His teachings carried the flavor of earlier generations, reflecting what he had personally heard and absorbed from the remaining links to the Torah world of prewar Europe.

Rav Chaim Tzvi was zocheh to leave behind a son and daughter, as well as grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

His son is Rav Yehoshua Ehrenreich, a son-in-law of the late Gaavad of Montevideo of Williamsburg. His elder son-in-law is the Nadvorna-Bania Rebbe, and one of his grandsons is the Dinov Rebbe.

The levayah is expected to take place in Williamsburg, after which the aron will be flown to Eretz Yisrael. The kevurah will take place on Har Hamenuchos in Yerushalayim, where Rav Chaim Tzvi zt”l will be laid to rest near his father.

Yehi zichro baruch.

{Matzav.com}