Concern in Brisk as Yeshiva Head Is Rushed Back to Hospital During Recovery

Please pray: Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik, head of the Brisk Yeshiva, was rushed to the hospital today after feeling heart-related distress. His students and the wider public have been called to increase prayers and supplications for the complete recovery of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua ben Atil.

Concern has spread among thousands of students and admirers of the Brisk בית, and among those who study his teachings, after Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik, head of the prestigious Brisk Yeshiva, was urgently taken today, Thursday, to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, in the midst of a recovery process following a complex heart operation. As reported, the yeshiva head had recently suffered serious medical complications in his heart, and last week underwent a highly complex heart surgery.

Over the past week there had been a slight improvement in his condition, and several days ago he was even discharged from the hospital to his home in Jerusalem, the holy city, to continue his recovery there. However, today, during the day, his medical condition deteriorated severely and worryingly. As a result, the yeshiva head was rushed at great speed to the hospital for urgent medical treatment, causing great concern among his many students.

Upon receiving the news, numerous prayer gatherings were quickly organized. In the Brisk Yeshiva hall, as well as in the halls of other yeshivas and kollels, learning was interrupted and a public prayer was recited for his complete recovery. The public was called upon to increase prayers and supplications for the recovery of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua ben Atil, among the other sick of Israel. "He, who is mighty and exalted, will not reject the prayer of the many."