Talk:Yosef Greenwald

Here is a Yiddish website discussing Rabbi Greenwald: http://www.yiddishworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&p=1724438 --תנא קמא (talk) 19:32, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Celebrating Pupa’s Glory

The Pupa Rebbe, zt’l, achieved world recognition as a scholarly young man prior to WWII, having led a large yeshiva in the city of Satmar. When his father, Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiyahu Greenwald, zt’l (1882—1941), the author of VaYaged Yaakov, passed away in 1941, Rabbi Yosef was elected to succeed his father’s prestigious rabbinical seat. Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiyahu was a son of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, zt’l (1853—1911), revered Chuster Rav and author of Arugas HaBosem. As the Vayechi Yosef departed the city of Satmar, the entire yeshiva of several hundred students chose to join him in Pupa, where they continued to imbibe his sweet Torah teachings.

He lost his wife and children, who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as his yeshiva and his whole community. After WWII, he remarried and began resurrecting the glory of Pupa. He labored to provide lodging and meals for hundreds of orphans and reestablished his yeshiva. Assuming the roles and obligations of both father and mother, the Pupa Rav arranged sustenance and marriages for his orphaned students. He immigrated first to Antwerp in 1947, and then to America in 1951, where he settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and began leading his remnant congregation and yeshiva anew with but a handful of followers and students.

The sainted Pupa Rav passed away in 1984 at the age of 81, and was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiyahu Greenwald. The size and Torah productivity of the Pupa Kehillah today was unimaginable just a few short decades ago. Pupa presently consists of a wide international network of educational institutions with more than 7,000 students enrolled in its yeshivas, girls schools, camps, and kollelim in Williamsburg, Boro Park, Monsey, Westchester, Montreal, Jerusalem, and elsewhere.

Kiryas Pupa is its dedicated community in Ossining, Westchester County, New York, with more than 800 students enrolled in its graduate yeshiva located on a pastoral 140-acre campus. Kiryas Pupa was established by the late Pupa Rebbe in the last years of his life. He toiled to seat his yeshiva outside the bustling city. The Pupa mosdos are presently expanding so fast that they are currently building at least one new facility every year, and outgrow the new facility before its completion. The main beis midrash in Kiryas Pupa was previously enlarged and is currently under further expansion. In addition to the kehillah’s older cemetery in Floral Park, NJ, a newer cemetery is located adjacent to Kiryas Pupa in Westchester. The late Pupa Rebbe reposes there in Kiryas Pupa.

http://www.5tjt.com/celebrating-pupas-glory/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by תנא קמא (talk • contribs) 12:00, 20 January 2019 (UTC)