R’ Yehuda ‘Flumie’ Harris, 65, AH

R’ Yehuda “Flumie” Harris, a beloved member of the Anash community in New Haven, CT, passed away Wednesday morning, 10 Cheshvan, after battling an illness over the past few months.

He was 65 years old.

Rabbi Yehuda was born in 5721 to his parents, Aryeh Leib and Uriella Harris, in New Haven, where he grew up and attended school before heading to Mir Yeshivah for his yeshivah years.

He was known for his brilliant mind, exceptional hasmadah, and remarkable abilities in learning, and he received semicha from Rabbi Yisroel Yitzchak Piekarsky and Rabbi Pinchas Hirshprung at a relatively young age.

In the later years of his life, he devoted much of his time to learning, spending many hours a day immersed in Torah at the New Haven Yeshivah Gedolah, where he befriended many of the bochurim and developed close relationships with the yeshivah community.

He was also beloved by the wider New Haven community and by many shluchim throughout the United States whom he had come to know during his extensive travels.

He was generous in giving tzedakah, supporting many Chabad institutions and causes.

The levaya will take place Thursday at 9:00 a.m. in front of 292 Norton Street, New Haven, CT 06511.

The kevurah will take place at 12:30 p.m. at King Solomon Memorial Cemetery, 550 Dwasline Road, Clifton, NJ 07012, at Wallerstein Lodge, Row T, where his parents are buried.

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