The Kuzmir Hasidic court marked a solemn milestone last week as the Rebbe commemorated the twentieth yahrzeit of his father, Rabbi Dan of Modzitz, author of the Nachlat Dan responsa, with a grand tish that drew a distinguished gallery of rabbinic leaders to the Bnei Brak beit midrash on Rashi Street.
Among those who came to honor the memory of the late Rebbe were the Admorim of Shevet HaLevi and Temeshvar, alongside Rabbi Aharon Shapira, chief rabbi of Pardes Katz. Particularly notable was the attendance of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, a member of the Council of Torah Sages and rosh yeshiva of Maor HaTalmud in Rehovot, whose presence signaled the breadth of respect commanded by the Kozmir dynasty across the haredi world.
But the evening's most dramatic moment came not during the tish itself, but in the small hours that followed, when the Rebbe ascended to the Mount of Olives cemetery with a delegation of followers to pray at his father's grave, and to plead for the recovery of a loyal aide whose condition has cast a shadow over the court for weeks.
