BDE: Reb Avrohom Zev Kaufman, z”l
We are saddened to inform you of the petirah of Reb Avrohom
(Bumi) Kaufman, z”l, a longtime Boro Park resident, a pillar of the
Satmar and Chuster Kehillos. He was 96 years of age.
The Kaufman family is among the most prestigious in the
Satmar kehillah—and actually originates in Satmar. Reb Avorhom Zev was born in
Satmer in 1925, to his father Reb Chaim Aryeh, a great yerei Shomayim who was
close to the Satmar Rov. He tragically lost his father in the 1934, when he was
nine years old—and the poverty that the family lived with was only compounded
following this.
Along with his brother, the legendary ba’al tzeddakah
Reb Lipa Kaufman, z”l, he learned under the Satmar Rov, the Divrei Yoel, in the
yeshiva in Satmar. He would lose his mother and two siblings in the war,
surviving alone with his brother and sister (Mrs. Esther Weissman, a”h).
Following the war, the Kaufman brothers were among the inner
circle of the Divrei Yoel as he set about rebuilding from the churban.
He became an ardent supporter of Satmar, and a pillar of the Sigheter Beis
Medrash in Boro Park under the leadership of the Beirach Moshe, and remained
there to the end of his life.
He would regularly attend the chumash seuda of the
Satmar cheder, and loved nothing more than to see the future generations
thriving in the ways of yore, following the terrible destruction that he had
witnessed during the war.
His chessed extended beyond large causes; every child was
precious in his eyes. Until three weeks ago, he always sat outside his home
giving candies and smiles to children. In the summers, he doted upon the
children who did not go to camp—their trusted friend who showered them with
sweets and good words.
Reb Avrohom leaves behind a beautiful Torah family, and an
admiring Satmar kehillah who have lost yet one more like to the past.
The levaya will take place today, Wednesday, in
Shomrei Hadas at 3:00
Yehi Zichro Baruch