BDE: Hagaon Harav Shmuel Auerbach zatzal

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The Torah world is plunged into mourning with the petirah of Rav Shmuel Auerbach Rosh Yeshiva of Maalos Hatorah. Rav Shmuel was niftar Friday night after suffering a heart attack. He was 87 years old the Levaya will take place tomorrow 11:00 am at his yeshiva.
Reb Shmuel learned the medrash Rabba on the parsha after maariv as usual and ate the seuda. He told his gabbai to go to sleep earlier because tomorrow they will read parshas zachor. During the night the gabbi heard noises and rushed in to the room to find the RY in cardiac arrest. They rushed him to sharei tzedek hospital.  He was niftar at 12:30. Kevurah at har Hamenuchos.
Reb Samuel was the oldest son of his parents Harav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ZT"L. His wife  passed away in 1990. They were not zoche to have their own children but Rav Shmuel had thousands of Talmidim from his yeshiva and from those who lived in the sharei chesed neighborhood of Yerushalayim.