Rabbi Elimelech Ashkenazi,z"l

Rabbi Elimelech Ashkenazi, z”l, thought to be the last surviving student of the founder of Daf Yomi, Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Chachmei Lublin, passed away at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York earlier this week. He was 96.

In recent years he lived in Seagate, New York although he had ties as a rav to Melbourne, Australia’s and Brussels, Belgium’s chareidi communities. He was buried in Jerusalem on Wednesday.