Rav Dovid Trenk - כז סיון

Yahrtzeit Yomi #1520!!כז סיוןRav Dovid Trenkמורי ורבי הרב מנחם יחיאל דוד ב״ר אברהם יהושע העשיל טרענק(1940 - 2019)TAYREH REBBEH!!🥹🥹🥹------------------------------------------My friends, today, 27 Sivan, marks the 6th yahrtzeit of Mori V’Rebbi HaRav Dovid Trenk ZTL. Today’s edition is most meaningful to me personally, as I have had the זכייה to know Rav Trenk zl ever since I was a child, and, more recently, spent 4 summers together with my family as next-door-neighbors to the Trenks.The following text and subsequent pdf document [see WhatsApp group] are of a revised and redacted version of the original tribute which I wrote in memory of our beloved Rebbi, which was published in the Yated Ne’eman on the occasion of his first yahrtzeit, Sivan 5780.יהי זכרו ברוך!!------------------------------------------הוא היה אומרThree Words. THE words that perhaps come closest to defining a man whose greatness is beyond definition. Expressed tearfully by his eldest son at his levaya, the Three-Word-הספד, borrowed from a term used repeatedly in מסכת אבות, is contextually explained to be referring to what a man’s essence, as opposed to his words, would say: הוא היה אומר - his very being, completely and altruistically devoted to nothing other than Divine Service in its purest form, was the sole source of his inestimable impact. Always who he was, not merely what he said. The supremely unique personality of Rav Dovid Trenk ZTL constitutes a study in contrasts. In the opinion of this writer, acq