By COLlive reporter
R’ Aaron Elazar Mogilevsky, a Chabad chossid who survived the persecutions of the Communist regime against observant Jews, has passed away on Tuesday, 14 Cheshvan 5773.
He was 93 and had been ill for a while.
R’ Lozer, as he was known, was one of the pioneers who founded the Kfar Chabad chassidic village in central Israel. He later moved to the United States to be closer to the Rebbe.
He lived alone in Crown Heights for many years and later moved to Boro Park. Most recently he was in the Aishel Avraham nursing home in Williamsburg.
VIDEO: A short conversation he had with R’ Yosef Katzman
But in the annals of Lubavitch history he will be most remembered as being one of the 10 heroic Chabad boys that were arrested in the underground Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Berdichev, today in Ukraine.
Soviet authorities barged in to the yeshiva on 24 Teves 5698 and arrested the teachers and the students, among them Lozer Mogilevsky, R’ Berel Gurevitch, R’ Hershel Ceitlin, R’ Refoel Brook, R’ Chaskel Brod and R’ Refoel Wilschansky.
He does not leave any surviving family.
The levaya will take place Wednesday leaving Shomrei Hadas Chapels at 10:00 am and passing by 770 Eastern Parkway at 10:45 am.
Baruch dayan haemes.
He was a good friend of my husband moishe,obm. We had him for many yomtovim. He was very proud of his homemade wine. He even gave some for hakofas at the lefferts ave. Shul and everyone agreed.an interesting person.
As mentioned he was an indevidual without any family. Our father ah R Nochum Wolosow in his unique caring way took him in to stay with us. First when he came from Eretz Yisroel to be with the Rebbe for the Yomim Tovim in the Lameds and then when he moved to the USA he lived with us for a while untill he moved to his own place. We were very close with him at the time. I have lost contact with him for so many years and I was saddened by his passing. May he be a guter better… Read more »
I suggest that everyone can remember him when doing a mitzva such as giving tzedaka or saying Tehilim . His full name is Elazar aaron ben Yaakov?. His kapital is 94.
Reb Lozor Mogilevsky was a lonely man without any family. Eight months ago I visited him in Eshel Avrohom senior center in Williamsburg, and I recorded with my phone a few minutes of him talking about his youth during the 20’s & 30’s in Stalinist Russia. After being busted in an underground Yeshiva in Berditchev, Lozor and his classmates were taken away to a government run orphanage, so that his parents won’t be able to poison him with the opium called Judaism. Miraculously they managed to escape, and ultimately they made their way to freedom where Lozor helped found the… Read more »
Every Jew is my brother!
How much more so does he feel like family as a true solider and chossid of my Rebbe!!!
May the neshamah have a tremendous aliyah as we continue to carry out the Rebbe’s wishes with mesieras nefesh and work to bring Mosciach Now!!
Who is left from those years of mesirus nefesh? Only one elter Chossid comes to mind: Reb Mottel Lifshitz tzu lange gezunte yor’n is now among the oldest Chassidim, and he is a Gulag survivor. Even the generation after that who escaped the worst by getting out of the USSR soon after WW2 ended, but who have memories of how things were under Stalin YMS, are at least in their early 80s. For that matter, even many who lived lives of mesirus nefesh as yungeleit in Samarkand are approaching their 70s if my math is correct. Moshiach should come already… Read more »
the story of the group could be found here:
http://www.chabad.org/650403
thank you for going out there and recording it and thank you for giving it out (and not just keeping it for a teshura), however hamaschil….. please for the sake of all of us, write the whole story about the ten bochrim/kids there were taken and their teacher and a biogrphy of this great man and post it here in pdf format, our kids and us adults need to see this read this and be inspired by it.
Why do I always hear about all the great chossidim after they pass away.
Can somebody please put out a weekly bio about the great chossidim while they are still alive – OK, so we saw the Rabba, but my kids and your kids didn’t. I want to be able to say to my kids look at that chossid, he was in prison in Siberia for 20 years because he was a chossid. etc. etc…. you get the point.
can someone transcribe (and translate) the conversation in the video please?
I knew him from Eshel Avraham. He was a real soldier! It is a real chesed shel emeth to come tomorrow to the levaya!!!
reb refoel wilshanski shlit”a
Sounds like a brave soldier of the Rebbe
Mogilevsky in Toronto??
that we should do video interviews of all of these amazing heroes and heroines ASAP – today’s generation ( myself included ) cannot even begin to imagine their level of mesiras nefesh and emunah.
being that no living family it would be tremendous kovod to go to levaya!