The Wonders of Harav Yitzchack Kadouri

188 any gain. Each person should rather see what he can do to ¿ll the gaping hole of merits, and together, both individually and collectively, we can ¿ll perhaps a small portion of it. We must strengthen ourselves in learning Torah, striving to understand its hallowed words. No one should walk away from this funeral without accepting upon themselves some a sincere resolution, whether it be to strengthen their Torah learning or their prayers. Our prayers need to come from the heart, to be a true service of the heart. Rabbosei, this day needs to be eternally commemorated. We should utilize it to further our service of G-d. We are experiencing a tremendous loss. Yet it is also a special day, one that we can utilize. When the soul of a great tzaddik and righteous person ascends on High, the gates of Heaven open up to receive that soul. Speci¿cally now, we can, and should, take advantage of that opportunity to think of repentance, to place before the Creator all of our resolutions to better ourselves. Despite the tremendous pain at our loss, we can act as Avraham did, “And Abraham stood up from his mourning,” to stand up and be encouraged to learn Torah amidst toil, or to pray heart-felt prayers, as they ought to. We should inwardly love our fellow Jew just as we preach to others. We should strive to do kindness with one another, to act righteously with every Jew, without ulterior motives or considerations, simply because G-d wills that we should do so. May G-d have compassion on us, the remnant of Jewry, and save us. We ask the Rav, who is presently ascending to the Heavens, that he should be the emissary of all of Jewry, to bring our pleas and requests before the Heavenly Throne, not to rest until he sees to the coming of the Messiah, may it be speedily and in our days, Amen. The eulogy of the Gaon Harav Reuven Albaz shlita “The angels cry out, the angels of peace cry bitterly.” Not only do we weep, as it says, “My eyes, my eyes, shed tears,” but even the Heavenly angels cry bitterly at the extant of our loss. Rabbosei, what else can we do, except to cry! The verse in the Song of Songs says, “I am as a wall and my fountains are like towers.” The Torah is compared to a protective wall, and the sages as our source of nourishment. This magni¿cent ‘tower’ was a tower of Torah, of prayer, of Kabbalah. He was a fortress of great magnitude, every prayer which ascended through his citadel reached the Heavens. How many hundreds and thousands of people