It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah at Maayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak of Rav Avraham Eliyahu Halevi Wosner zt”l, the rov of the Shevet Halevi kehillah in the Brachfeld neighborhood of Modiin Illit, and a son of the preeminent posek, Hagaon Rav Halevi Shmuel Wosner zt:l.

Rav Avraham Eliyahu Halevi was born in Yerushalayim in 1946, a son of Rav Shmuel Halevi Wosner and Rebbetzin Rivka Wosner.

When he was two, his father moved to the Zichron Meir neighborhood in Bnei Brak and he learned at the Satmar Talmud Torah in Bnei Brak. Later he learned at his father’s yeshiva, Chachmei Lublin, in Bnei Brak.

When he reached marriageable age, he married into the family of Rav Avraham Shlomo Katz zt”l, rov of Riskeva and the Satmar neighborhood in Bnei Brak. For a time, he served as a maggid shiur and mashgiach in the Yachil Yeshiva and was also an expert sofer.

In 2006, when his father established the Shevet Halevi kehillah in Brachfeld, he appointed his son to be its rov. Rav Wosner led the community with chesed and warmth, welcoming everyone warmly, regardless of their age or status. He constantly shared words of Torah from his abundant yedios, and many sought his counsel and hadracha.

After some ten years, the Shevet Halevi kehillah moved into a new and magnificent beis medrash built in the center of the Brachfeld neighborhood in Modiin Illit. The foundation stone for this new building had been laid years earlier by Rav Shmuel Wosner zt”l, and after many years of gathering in an old caravan, the kehillah finally had their own new beis medrash. The rov would attend all the tefillos there and was beloved by the mispallelim.

Out of his profound commitment to honoring his father, he refused to leave Bnei Brak, his father’s city of residence, and remained devotedly by his side throughout the years. Nonetheless, he would travel to Brachfeld for Shabbos and Yom Tov to be among his kehillah members.

In recent years, his health declined, but with extraordinary dedication, he continued to go to the beis medrash regularly. Even in recent months, despite his weakened condition, he persevered and attended the davening at the beis medrash. On the night of Rosh Hashanah, he made a special effort to attend the large Shevet Halevi beis medrash in Bnei Brak, where he offered brachos for a good year and was himself bentched by his nephew, the Shevet Halevi Rov, while crowds of chassidim approached him to receive brachos for the new year.

Rav Wosner endured great suffering and pain until today, when he was niftar.

He merits leaving behind 15 married children and hundreds of grandchildren and great-grandchildren throughout the world.

The levayah will be held this evening at 9:00 p.m. at the Shevet Halevi beis medrash adjacent to Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin at 17 Rechov Harav Dessler in Bnei Brak. Kevurah will take place at the Ponevezher Bais Hachaim.

Yehi zichro boruch.

{Matzav.com Israel}