Elazar Mordechai Koenig

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Elazar Mordechai Koenig
אלעזר מרדכי קעניג
BornOctober 15, 1945
Jerusalem, Israel
DiedDecember 31, 2018(2018-12-31) (aged 73)
Safed, Israel
Resting placeSafed, Israel
OrganizationNachal Novea Mekor Chochma
TitleRabbi
SpouseChaya (Berger) Koenig
Children7 sons, 6 daughters
Parent(s)Gedaliah Aharon Koenig, Esther Yehudit Koenig

Elazar Mordechai Koenig (

Breslov Hasidic community in Safed
, Israel.

Early life

Elazar Mordechai Koenig was born in

Uman, Ukraine in 1936.[1]

Koenig was an alumnus of the

Sephardic masters, including Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi.[2]

Breslov leader

Kiryat Breslov housing complex

In 1967, his father, with the encouragement of Rabbi Sternhartz, founded the Breslov community in Safed and dedicated himself to fundraising for the expansion of this Torah center.[1] Upon his father's unexpected death in 1980, Koenig and his two brothers built up the Breslov Safed complex to include a synagogue, preschool, Talmud Torah, yeshiva ketana, and kollel.[1][3]

As of 2014, the Safed Breslov community comprised 250 families.[1] Koenig was the leader of this community as well as of its umbrella organization, Nachal Novea Mekor Chochma. The organizations institutions include; Kiryat Breslev (a religious housing complex), a kollel, Yeshiva ketana, Talmud Torah Magen Avot, Ganei and Derech Yehudit Education Center for Girls, a daycare center for working mothers, Lilmod U'lamed Special Education School, the historic Trisk Synagogue in Safed's Old City, and a five-story Torah Center.

After suffering for many years from

Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.[citation needed] Koenig died on December 31, 2018, at the age of 73 following declining health due to cancer.[4]

Influence beyond Safed

In 1997 Koenig founded the Breslov Center for Spirituality and Inner Growth, which organizes classes on the teachings of Rebbe

Meron for Hasidim unable to travel to Uman.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^
    Ami
    , 12 March 2014, pp. 62–71.
  2. ^ "HaRav Elazar Mordechai Kenig, Shlita, Manhig (Leader) of Kiryat Breslov, Tzefat, Israel". The Breslov Chassidic Center for Spirituality and Inner Growth. 1997. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
  3. ^ "The Breslov Synagogue". safed.co.il. 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  4. ^ "Brelsov mourns: Rabbi Kenig of Tzfat passes". Israel National News. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

https://hamodia.com/2018/12/31/bde-harav-elazar-mordechai-kenig-ztl-breslover-rav-tzfas/

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