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M. Lipschitz, Tel-Aviv
One of the outstanding personalities in our city was Reb Gedalyah Engelberg, of blessed memory. He, in his modesty, was hiding his good deeds, did not seek respect and disliked publicity.
Upon his return from the Austrian army after World War I, he opened a clothing store and became an important and prosperous merchant in Lancut. His heart and hands were always open to the needy. The Lancut merchants, and the poor, were his visitors and he welcomed them with a smiling face. Some he helped with a loan and some with a donation. He practiced the halachic perception that our sages prescribed in the Talmudic tractate “Sukkah”, that kindness is greater than charity. He gave charity to the poor and free of interest loans to the poor and to the rich.
His money was in the hands of part of the merchants who came to pay their debts a day after market day. To many, he offered loans without being asked. He never pressured anyone about repayment of the loan. And if there were some who couldn't repay the debt, it did not stop him from continuing his way of life.
He was a member in the “Tomchey Aniym” society and its treasurer for many years. If somebody came to him asking for a loan or a donation and the store was full of customers, he would leave the customers and attend to the applicant and not make him feel ashamed or embarrassed. He supported many needy families without the knowledge of his own family.
He loved God and the people. Even though he was a busy business man, he never missed a day not to attend services in the synagogue. He was a fiery activist in helping to build the “Kloiz” which became the pride of our city. He was active in the “Mizrachi”, instilling national pride among the worshipers in the synagogue. He considered the attendance of the local youths in the secular school and gymnasium as a threat of going astray from the Jewish way of life, therefore
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| Standing from right: Esther and her husband Meir Estlein From right: Chana Ada and mother Sarah Estlein (Lipschitz), Rachel and Hermania |
| In memory of our father Meir Estlein, Our mother, Esther Estlein, Sarah Estlein and her children: Chana and Ada |
together with his friends and colleagues, Shlomo Greenbaum, Gedalyah Estlein, Yechiel Nusbaum and Anshel Katz, they founded the Hebrew school which instilled into the youth's national pride and love for the Hebrew language.
Despite being an exemplary religious man, he also felt that it was his duty to give his sons a secular education. Nevertheless, they followed their father's footsteps and kept their allegiance with God, fulfilling all the commanded mitzvot. Let me point out that until the enrolment of his older daughter Leah in the Polish gymnasium, the Jewish students, even from religious homes, were forced to write in the class on the Shabbat. His daughter rebelled, fought the Shabbat fight and won. The Jewish student stopped writing in the gymnasium on the Shabbat. From that time on and until the outbreak of the war, they were not writing in the gymnasium on the Shabbat.
With the occupation by Hitler's military in Lancut, Reb Gedalyah understood that an end was to come to the Jewish Diaspora in Poland. He invited the Jews into his store, clothed them with the best of clothing and also added cash.
After he was exiled with his family to Russia, he never regretted the loss of his possessions. He was only sorry for his friends and the People of Israel that fell by Hitler's sword. He continued dreaming his dream, the “Dream of his life” that some day he would return to Zion. At his first chance, he emigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Bnai Berak, in the settlement of “Hapoel Hamizrachi” among people of “Torah Vaavodah”. Although he was not a young man anymore, he fulfilled the mitzvah: “When you will come to the land, you should plant”. He worked as a gardener and took care, with love of the trees and bushes, with joy and devotion.
In Eretz Israel, he continued to be a devoted attendee in the synagogue and was loved and respected by everyone. There was a “thread of charm stretched upon him”. About which our sages have said: “A person who has a thread of charm is known to be a God-fearing man”. He continued doing kindness modestly, never mentioning to anyone about his status from past years.
May his soul be bonded in the bond of the living.
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