During the days leading up to the seventieth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Tzirelson, former Chief Rabbi of Bessarabia (Moldova today), visitors were taken on guided tours of the ruins of Rabbi Tzirelson’s former yeshiva.
The yeshiva, which is close to Chabad Lubavitch Street in Kishinev, was bombed heavily during World War II, causing the deaths of many members of the Jewish community, including Rabbi Tzirelson himself. Prayers were also recited at his gravesite in the local Jewish cemetery and in the Great Synagogue in Kishinev.
