YAHRZEIT OF HAKUDOSH REB MOSHE ROKEACH HY”D 

Son of Reb Aharon of Belz zt”l

Shabbos – July 5 – ט’ תמוז 

Reb Moshe was the bechor – eldest son born to Maran Reb Aharon Rokeach of Belz zt’’l.  Reb Moshe married HaRabbanis Moras Faiga, the daughter of Reb Pinchas Avraham Shulem Rottenberg zt’’ – a great, great-granddaughter of the Sar Shalom of Belz zt’’l.

Reb Moshe’le was 38 when he perished Al Kiddush Hashem in Premyshlan.  On a Friday, the Nazis ym’’s and Ukranians grabbed Reb Moshe from the street and thrust him alive into the burning flames of the Premishlan Shul.

When his holy father Maran Reb Aharon heard of his tragic Petira (death), he said: “Blessed is Hashem that I sacrificed a Korban for him!”

Reb Moshe’le was buried the following Sunday in the city of Premishlan, ה’ ינקום דמם מהרה לעינינו.

Reb Moshele’s wife and five children all perished in the war, hy’d)

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