The life of Rabbi Hershel Feigelstock OBM will be commemorated at a virtual memorial event marking the Shloshim since his passing.
It will be taking place this Sunday, 12 Teves (December 27) at 3:00 PM Eastern Time.
Rabbi Feigelstock grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community of Vienna, Austria. His first encounter with the Frierdiker Rebbe happened in 1927 when the Rebbe Rayatz visited there for his health.
During WWII, his family escaped to Budapest. His parents sent him and his brother to England, where they studied in a Yeshiva with other refugees.
In 5700 [1940], they were arrested and placed in an internment camp since as Austrian nationals, they were viewed as enemies. Eventually, they were transferred to camps in Canada and ultimately released. His first stop was at the newly established Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch – Rabbinical College of Canada in Montreal.
In 1949 he married his wife Sara Esther Feigelstock (nee Winter), and they were privileged to have the Rebbe as mesader kiddushin at their wedding. Rabbi Feigelstock began teaching at the Lubavitch yeshivah in Montreal, in 1945. In 1953, he became principal of the Yeshiva.
Rabbi Feigelstock also ran Mesibos Shabbos and plays for children around the holidays and a day camp. The day camp led to the founding of the Gan Israel overnight camp outside of Montreal.
Both the previous Rebbe and the Rebbe were tremendously encouraging and very involved in every aspect of his work in education.
A list of esteemed people who know, worked with and were influenced by Rabbi Feigelstock will be speaking at the Shloshim.
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Missed the live event, but watched after words. Very enjoyable, especially Rabbi Perlmuter, nostalgic, and brought back many memories. (It took 1 hour 48 minutes for the Raphy to say”Zag”.) I was always amazed that Rabbi Feigelstock, (I cannot call him by any other name the than Rabbi), despite being a principle of the elementary and high school, yet he had so much influence on all the Bochurim. He was not a Mashpia officially, but silently, his behaviour, piety, his Yiras Shomayim, I have not really encountered again, he was the real mashpia. Every time I say mishnayes for a… Read more »