Reb Shlomo Zalman Auerbach

Rarely in recent Jewish history has there been a Torah personality who captured the hearts of so many of the people as did the legendary Reb Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt'l. In an unprecedented outpouring of love and veneration, more than 300,000 mourners joined the funeral procession in Yerushalayim to bid a last farewell to the saintly tzaddik who had touched their lives. Who was this beloved sage? How did he stir such adoration? Universally acclaimed as one of the leading poskim of our generation, he served as Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivah Kol Torah in Yerushalayim for half a century. A man whose breadth and depth of knowledge seemed limitless, his countless halachic decisions provide clear guidance in our present-day world of technological advances. But Reb Shlomo Zalman, as he was affectionately called, was much more than a towering halachic authority. He exemplified the purity and saintliness of the great men of an earlier age. With profound wisdom, he dispensed counsel, consolation and