Darkness in the Be'er Ya'akov Yeshiva: A few days before the last Purim holiday, the electricity was cut off at the Be'er Yaakov Yeshiva, headed by the rabbi David Yitzhak Shapira, due to a debt of 600,000 shekels. The yeshiva has continued to operate since then using a Shabbat generator, mainly to supply electricity to the Beit Midrash, but now it too has collapsed, unable to cope with the intense, around-the-clock activity. Due to the financial hardship, no solution is currently on the table.
Yeshiva student Israel Schwartz tells Haredim10 that a local council member tried to help in every way, and for many months he even succeeded. But towards the end of the month of Adar, as mentioned, he too could no longer help. "The situation is a 'catastrophe.' In the meantime, we study in two synagogues, one during the day, and one in the evening - then the synagogue fills up with local worshippers, the yeshiva moves to another synagogue, further away." The supervisor, Rabbi Moshe David Lefkowitz, delivered the opening speech in tears, recalling the sage's article about 'Torah that I learned with my nose.'.
And the dining room is located in the community center, and the boys' boarding rooms are lit by emergency lighting or flashlights. The yeshiva boys say that at night they are itching from mosquitoes, the heat is terrible, and there are not even fans. "People would be shocked if they saw this," the students say.
The heads of the yeshiva are considering moving the yeshiva to another city, and the option of the 'Rambam Yeshiva' in Tel Aviv, where the 'Grodna Be'er Ya'akov' yeshiva was supposed to move, was being examined.
And to whom did the founder of the yeshiva, the great Shapira, appear in a dream last night?
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