The Hasidic communities of Waslui and Bohush are mourning the death of Rabbi Chaim Dov Halperin, a noted scholar and leader in Bnei Brak, who died after six years of severe illness. He was 47. He was the son of the Waslui rebbe and the son-in-law of the Bohush rebbe, and served as rabbi of the Waslui Hasidim in Bnei Brak and as head of the yeshiva’s kibbuts in Bohush.
Halperin was born in Bnei Brak on 26 Adar 5739, to Rebbe of Waslui and Rebbetzin Tova, the daughter of Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Brim, who headed Tiferet Yisrael Rozhin Yeshiva and led a Beit Yaakov school in Bnei Brak. He was named after his grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Dov of Waslui. As a child he studied in the Bohush youth yeshiva, later moved to the large yeshiva Noam HaTorah in Bnei Brak, and then studied in the Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he became known for unusual talent and constant diligence.
After his marriage to his wife, the daughter of his uncle, the Bohush rebbe, the couple settled in Bnei Brak and built their home on Torah, Jewish law and Hasidic practice. Over the years, because of his learning and leadership, he was appointed head of the Bohush yeshiva’s kibbuts and the spiritual leader of Waslui Hasidim in the city, earning great respect from those who knew him and heard his teaching.
Less than a month ago, despite extreme weakness, he attended his son’s wedding to the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Natan Lemberger, son of the late chief rabbi of Makava Bnei Brak. The funeral will leave on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. from the Waslui synagogue on Yitzhak Meir HaCohen Street in Bnei Brak’s Ramat Aharon neighborhood, pass the main Bohush synagogue on Haga Street, and continue to the Nahalat Yitzchak cemetery in Givatayim, where he will be buried in the section of the righteous of the House of Rozhin.
