Tribute to Rav Aharon Walkin zt”l: His Torah, Love, and Mesiras Nefesh

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. What is the greatest rule of the Torah, the number one rule in the Torah is, V'ahavta l'reacha kamocha. Zeh klal gadol means there's got to be a klal katan. And what is the klal katan? Kedoshim tihyu. What made the Rosh Yeshiva zatzal so unique... Was the fact that he was not only a tremendous, tremendous talmid chacham and a person with a heart that truly cared for every single person that he came across. Rabbi was a real talmid chacham, a real gaon, a real Yid, always looking to help people, always with a smile, always positive. But his smile, his love for every single Jew is something that I've never seen before in my life. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Rabbi cared about every single Yid as if they were his own child. My Rebbe, Rabbi Aaron Walkin zatzal, had such a mastery over so much of the Torah. Our Rebbe's yediot baTorah was so vast. There was no topic in kol haTorah kula that was too big or too small. He knew everything. What a great talmid chacham. Our Rebbe was a tremendous charif, and his charifut would be appreciated in the greatest of yeshivot. My Rebbe, Rabbi Aaron Walkin zatzal, was not a Kohen, but he was definitely an Aharon. He resembled the quality of Aharon HaKohen, who was ohev shalom v'rodef shalom. There's no soldier like the Jewish soldier. I mayed because there's no heart like the Jewish heart. There's nothing like Yisrael, mi k'amcha Yisrael, goy echad. We are one nation ba'aretz. He was always, always positive and happy to teach us. Anything he taught, Chumash, Gemara, Halachot, I just want to hear more of it and more of it and more of it. To stay the whole week in Queens while his family was in Lakewood showed us what real, real mesirus nefesh was. He taught me how to learn, and most importantly, to love learning. ...your wife will have a wonderful Shabbos. Torah transforms a person to be an adam hashalem, an adam, and a mensch. He wouldn't stop. He would continue, and he would tell us, You got to continue. You have to be marbitzei Torah. My Rebbe, he had real ahavas Yisrael. In front of the Torah, he used to cry. He used to cry on behalf of Klal Yisrael. He felt for others deeply, so much so that he would literally cry with you. He needs to not only think of himself, but he needs to think of the klal, and even the rest of the world, goyim as well. That's what made Rebbe so unique and so different than the rest. How much we all changed ever since we met the Rav, and that's all thanks to our walk-in. Thank you, Rebbe.

The way he taught me to look at the good of every single person will stay with me forever. And I can say he changed my life for the good. And this is the kind of person that we had this hope to have in our lives, somebody that just kept on giving to us and giving to us and giving to us. Sad that he left us too soon. I will definitely miss him. We should keep on carrying his name on and making him proud. He is one that will forever be with me. I love you, Rebi. We miss you. Hearts and our memories. ... And we long to see you, bezrat Hashem, soon, when Mashiach comes. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.