Rabbi Gershon Nof, a resident of Boro Park and patriarch of a large Lubavitch family, passed away on Tuesday, 17 Tammuz.
Rabbi Gershon Nof, a resident of Boro Park and patriarch of a large Lubavitch family, passed away on Tuesday, 17 Tammuz.
Gershon was born in Moscow in 1939 and was an eynikel of the chossid Reb Pinchos Schreiber, known as Pinye Rakshiker. His family was one of the first to leave Russia with the eshalons; they then arrived at the Poking DP camp. They later lived in Eretz Yisroel, where Reb Gershon learned at the yeshiva in Lod, where he was mekabel from Reb Shlomo Chaim Kesselman. He later was a respected member of the Lubavitcher kehillah in Bnei Brak.
He was a prolific Talmid Chacham and authored several seforim on a wide range of topics. He also was a frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language Algemeiner Journal.
He is also survived by his children, Yosef Priel, Nechemia Priel, Bruchy Winterfeld, and by his stepchildren Menachem Moskowitz, Sima Bart, and Devory Gottlieb.
He is survived by his siblings Mrs. Miriam Roitblatt, Ms. Ruchomo Romanov, and Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Romanov.
The levaya took place on Wednesday in Boro Park and Crown Heights on its way to Old Montefiore Cemetery.
Boruch Dayan Haemes.
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