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More than 500 attend yahrtzeit memorial
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SUSAN TAWIL

Special to the Jewish News

R

abbi Aryeh Leib Bakst died
one year ago, and his follow-
ing was so great that more
than 500 people attended his yahrtzeit
[anniversary of death] memorial serv-
ice Dec. 29.
"Everyone felt the Rosh Yeshivah
was their best friend," said Rabbi
Moshe Carlebach of Jerusalem, who
spoke at the service.
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distinctly foreign surroundings, the
yeshivah was re-established, and the
students continued their Torah study
until the war's end.

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Rabbi Moshe Carlebach ofJerusalem speaks of Rabbi Bakst to a full house.

(head of Yeshivah) referred only to
Rabbi Bakst, beloved leader of
Detroit's Orthodox community and a
brilliant Torah scholar.
Marking the first year of his passing,
the gathering was held at Oak Park's
Yeshiva Gedolah Ateres Mordechai of
Greater Detroit, the yeshivah high
school and post-high school rabbinical
college Rabbi Bakst headed for some
60 years until his death at age 89.
Community members recited
tehillim (psalms) on behalf of his
departed soul and listened to inspiring
words of Torah reflecting his life.

Rabbi Bakst, with his new wife,
Esther (Rogow), then immigrated to
Quebec, Canada. In 1947, they were
recruited by the late Rabbi Avrohom
Abba Freedman to teach in the fledg-
ling Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Detroit.
Rabbi Bakst later headed the Yeshiva
Gedolah Ateres Mordechai high school
and the Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical
College.
One of the speakers at the memorial
service, Rabbi Carlebach is the son of
Rabbi Naftali Carlebach, who learned
in the Mir Yeshiva with Rabbi Bakst.
He characterized Rabbi Bakst as "a