The Jewish world has lost a spiritual giant, the Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, who passed away on Shabbos at the age of 88.
I had a chance to meet the Bostoner Rebbe when I lived in Jerusalem, and was inspired by his amazing spirit. His approach to Jewish life was completely non-judgmental, based in joy and helping others. Davening with him at his Boston Beis Midrash on Shabbos in Har Nof was always memorable.
One of the Rebbe’s many projects was his Rofeh International organization, dedicated to provide medical referral and support services to the needy. According to their website, “The organization is dedicated to provide Medical Referral and Support Services to the needy. The organization assists the sick and their families with referrals, Hospitality & Kosher meals during their stay in Boston.”
The Rebbe worked tirelessly to connect sick people with medical specialists and experts around the world, making connections between doctors and patients to ensure that they found the best care possible.
The only serious obituary I found on Yeshivanet:
From the Religious News
There is a wonderful book of stories compiled together with the parsha:The Bostoner: Stories and Recollections from the Colorful Chassidic Court of the Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi L. Horowitz
M Moskovitz
12/15/2010
who can i contact to get a copy of this picture?
Thank you
Eliezer
1/6/2011
I happen to have had personal, direct, and VERY UNPLEASANT ‘meetings’ and experiences with the ‘family’ (a totally nasty, lying ‘son’, according to everyone I know who knows this same person), and not only did this person LIE HIS FACE OFF to me, but when I told him to his very face that I KNEW that he is a lying thief (and gave legal documentation, et cetera) to PROVE my claims against him/his organization, not ONLY he, but the so- called “insurance agent” that he took me to, NOT the doctor I was told we (including my former so-called ‘wife’) were TOLD we were going to be seeing and speaking with, the SAME “insurance agent” that was (in 1994) CONVICTED of insurance fraud, and said ‘rebbe’, y’mach sh’mo v’zichro ADMITTED DIRECTLY TO ME HIMSELF THAT HE AND HIS FILTHY, LYING, THIEVING ORGANIZATION HAD BEEN DOING THIS FOR MANY YEARS, AND IN FACT THAT EVERY ONE OF THE PEOPLE THEY WERE ‘HELPING’ WAS TOTALLY AND 100% PART OF THIS FRAUD ORGANIZATION, AND THE HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS THEY HAD ‘HELPED’ KNEW 100% THAT THIS WAS A TOTAL FRAUD SITUATION. You may believe that I am a liar, but the phony “insurance agent” will not agree with you, and the testimony of the very people IN FRONT OF MYSELF AND MY FORMER (so-called) ‘wife’ (y’mach sh’ma v’zichra), GIVES ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT THERE IS A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF THIEVERY GOING ON IN THE NAME OF ‘religion’. If THIS is supposedly ‘true’ (your claims to assist and aid other Jewish people), I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE IOTA OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM!!!! In simple fact, I and my personal experience with you and your organization have been entirely and totally ROTTEN, and I resent your claims to be assisting people. I KNOW WHAT YOUR GROUP HAS BEEN DOING, and I SERIOUSLY doubt that what you are doing has changed one damned BIT since my own filthy, rotten experiences with your crew of lying thieves. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE ME THAT MY STATEMENTS ARE INCORRECT, SINCE I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. YOU ARE LIARS, DESTROYERS, AND ABSOLUTE, TOTAL THIEVES. IT IS TRULY TOO, TOO BAD THAT THIS ‘RELIGION’ WAS EVER ALLOWED TO EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!