Posted on 08/20/17
| News Source: YWN
We regret to inform you of the Petira of Rebbitzen Esther Yenta Finkel, A”H, the wife of Hagaon HaRav Beinish Finkel, ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yerushalayim, and father-in-law of Hagaon HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir Yerushalayim. She was 96.
Rebbitzen Finkel was born in Vilna to Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Greinerman, ZATZAL, one of the Talmidim of the Chofetz Chaim.
Her uncle was the Chazon Ish, who was her Shadchan – to her husband Rav Beinish, later to be the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir.
Rav Beinish was born in Mir, Belarus, where his father Hagaon HaRav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva. In 1931, he studied under the Chofetz Chaim, and in 1933-34 under the Brisker Rov. After his arrival in Eretz Yisroel, he became close to the Chazon Ish who was his Shadchan to Rebbitzen Esther Yenta Finkel, A”H.
In 1965 Rav Beinish became Rosh Yeshiva until his Petira in 1990. (The Yeshiva was then led by his son-in-law Rav Nosson Tzvi until he was Niftar in 2011, and was taken over Rav Eleizer Yudel Finkel, Shlita, a son of Rav Nosson Tzvi.)
Rebbitzen Finkel served by her husbands side as the “mother” of the Yeshiva.
She was the mother of the wives of:
Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Zt"l
Rav Binyomin Carlebach
Rav Nachman Levovitz
Rav Yisroel Glustein
Rav Ahron Lopiansky
The Levaya is scheduled for Monday at 12:00PM at the Mir Yerushalayim.