We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Lakewood Mashgiach, Rav Yehuda Jacobs Zatzal.
Rav Yehuda ZT”L was a mashgiach in Bais Medrash Govoha for many years, where thousands attended his famed shiurim and vaadim on shalom bayis. His soft-spoken advice was highly sought after, and he made time for every yachid, no matter their background or relationship with him.
The levaya will take place at 12 PM. Click here to watch (password 676992), or call 646-558-8656, meeting ID: 873 1983 8624 pin: 676992.
The family of the Mashgiach Zatzal has requested that nobody show up the Levaya, per the law, which the Mashgiach would want followed.
Kevurah will take place in Eretz Yisroel.
Yehi Zichro Boruch.
Oy. What a loss for klal yisrael
BDE. This is a community tragedy.
BDE!!!!!
IN SHORT. BECAUSE TO SAY WHAT RABBI JACOBS WAS, YOU WOULD NEED A BOOK OR 2 ABOUT HIM!!!
LAKEWOOD JUST LOST ITS FATHER!!!
Please correct to Zatzal thx
A true loss for everybody, the greatest and most legendary shadchan. Anybody in shidduchim or marriage can attest for his sixth sense to simplify what seems complex, and to clarify all obscurities. BD”E
He always treated this Am HaAretz like I was the most important person in the world, without ANY condescension. Talk about an unassuming Adom Gadol. Woe to us all.
He was the wisest of men.
He had lines waiting for him for shoel eiytza. Especially for bochrim in shidduchim from my own experience. He would simplify the situation and then place the matter in front of you letting you know the options and then what he felt.
He told me once make sure you dont marry a girl “frumer” then you…shalom bayis…
Go into business with her but dont marry her. To negative.
BDE.
Rabbi Jacobs zt”l gave his time and undivided attention to total strangers as if they were his family.
His advise was clear, concise and extremely wise.
He will be greatly missed
Yihi Zichro Baruch.
He was the most humble of people. Many years ago his first rebbitzen a”h baby sat for my children. I can still see Reb Yehudah sitting and feeding my children,and other children,cereal,when I came to pick them up after seder! Nothing was beneath him when it came to helping others.
Rav Jacobs ZTL would occasionally stay in my parents house when I was a young child. He was so caring for all who came in contact with him.
I’m crying…Lakewood is crying… we lost a selfless tzadik… his crucial advice on shidduchim and sholom bayis is an unfathomable loss… Lakewood has lost our finest during this magaifa.. please hashem we need moshiach so badly…oy oy
@Avi, couldn’t have said any better. The Mashgiach Z”L was one of the wisest men of our generation. A true loss to thousands of us who were helped immeasurably by his sought-after council. May he be a Mayletz Yosher to all of us.
A Giant of a man. Caring, Wise, & Patient. Was there for so many of us when no one else was. Was a critical source of advice & empathy during my early time in BMG. I’m sure he’s now getting his tremendous schar in Gan Eden. Please remember us R’ Yehudah. You will not be replaced.
I hope his weekly Vaadim in BMG can become available for us to hear.
MASSIVE TZADIK
He was the father and architect of many initiatives to help the struggling teenagers, he worked with everyone and was the engine behind alot of the recent changes in this regard in this town.
How many of us have made life changing decisions based on the wisdom he shared with us? Such clarity of thought, such foresight, such yiras Shamayim…irreplaceable.
No words can describe this loss.
No words to describe this tremendous loss for Klal Yisroel. Rav Jacobs was a sought after Talmid Chacham, Tzaddik, and Adam Gadol. May He be a meilitz yosher for his entire mishpacha, all of his yeshiva and Lakewood, and gantz klal yisroel.
Umacha Hashem Dima Meial Kol Panim
BD”E. What a loss to our town and beyond. After Rabbi Gissinger was Niftar, I ran to him with my questions. The losses of true Giants this year are unfathomable. A wake up call like never before.
On a personal level and for the records, I could say without a doubt that the beautiful family we built B”H is all due to his listening ear and insightful advice in Shidduchim and over the years.
His advice to me when I was hesitating to take the plunge was as follows: There is always going to be one thing that you won’t like about your prospective spouse. It’s up to you to choose what it is.
I don’t know if it was a personal advice or general advice, but it definitely did the trick for me, and he of coursed was 100% right in hindsight. ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
A pierce in the hearts of the tzibur bnei torah. Hashem will send comfort speedily. rachmana ltzlon.
This is terrible news.
As everyone is saying – The wisest of men; The humblest of men.
A true Tzaddik.
BD”E.
So sad!
Back in the eighties, when the rayd was “hefkerville,” nobody knew or cared where you were and whether or not you showed up for seder, on one occasion I was ill and out of yeshiva for a week. I received a phone call from Rabbi Jacobs wishing me well, asking how I was doing and looking forward to my return. I never forgot that concern.
whats the number to hear a recording from the levaya tls can you please post thank you very much
He was the one I always looked up to. When I was confused, going to ask him a question was the thing that made me hopeful. The words of advice he gave me would stay with me long after I left his house, and I can still hear them now. He was so encouraging and wise at the same time. Now I wish I would have written it all down.
This so sad and I don’t know anyone like him. At least I know his neshama will be going to the best place- so close to Hashem.
Are there any records of him talking, or even a small video clip?
R’ Yehuda Jacobs was the sole local Daas Torah our organization sought since we launched YTI in 2017. I personally witnessed over and over in that dining room, with his crystal clear clarity and wisdom and, give advice to each boy we brought him that sometimes countered every single thing a boy in our program was being told by others, and it literally saved their lives and their Yiddeshkeit. He was a Gadol in ways that are almost impossible to find today. He was a tremendous Talmud Chochom, a trailblazer, an unbiased, big picture thinker and man of endless empathy and depth, and just flat out brave. He is irreplaceable. But we will need to somehow replace what he did for the good of our community. Who will step up. Who will it be. Hashem should help us and be with us. Mashgiach, we will miss you dearly.
Is there anyway to get the recording of the Hespedim? Thank You
if anyone can pelase follow up with a number to call thank you
I did work for him many times over the past ten years and as a young starting out service man I didnt charge enough in general and especially for the mashgiach who was family and neighbors I always under charged. More than once he encouraged me to charge more and said “what your time is a blote?” this changed my outlook on time and the value of myself more than the money. Under valuing your time is because YOU don’t value it.
יהי זכרו ברוך