Editing Rabbi Ahron Yaakov Schwei (section)

'''Rabbi Ahron Yaakov Schwei''' (July 9, 1934 – April 24, 2020) was born on 26 Tammuz 1934 in Åbo, Finland to his father Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Schwei and his mother Mrs. Bonia, where his father served as Rav and Moreh Hora'ah.

In 1942, when he was about seven years old, his father passed away. During [[World War II]], he fled with his mother to Uzbekistan, where they lived in a small village. At around age seven, he was sent to study at Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Samarkand under conditions of poverty and hardship.

At the underground Tomchei Tmimim in Samarkand, he began dedicating himself to his studies, and with his talents succeeded in completing his course of study, becoming one of the most important bochurim.

When his mother sent him as a child to Samarkand, she promised she would come visit. After about a year when his mother came to visit, she found her son waiting at the train station. When she asked how he knew she was coming, he answered: "You promised you would come, so every day when the train arrived I stood here and waited." This story is told at farbrengens about how we should await Moshiach. It was even made into a play by Cheder Gan Yisroel in Boro Park, and a camp song was written about it for Camp Gan Yisroel Moscow in 2019.

While in Samarkand, he merited to be in the presence of great Chassidim who were there during the war years like Reb Dovid Horodoker and others.

In 1946, he left Russia's borders together with all the yeshiva students in the "Russian Exodus of 1946," and continued his studies in the refugee camp in Pocking.

He also studied at Tomchei Tmimim yeshivas in Paris, Brunoy and Montreal. After the war, he immigrated with his brothers Reb Boruch Sholom Shwei and Rabbi Yitzchok Shwei to the United States, and in 1951 they entered to study at Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Montreal, and were members of the first class to receive rabbinic ordination.

During his bochur years, he guided and directed Camp Gan Yisroel in New York, and during these periods he used his artistic talent to decorate the camp walls with drawings of the Rebbe and other artistic works, some of which still adorn the camp walls today.

He received special instructions from the Rebbe including a personal instruction to daven at length with avodah. When he wrote to the Rebbe that it was difficult for him to daven at length every Shabbos, he was answered: He should take a break before Musaf.

For several years he served as the Rav of Camp Gan Yisroel New York.

He married his wife Mrs. Rachel.

He also worked on editing seforim for publication, editing his brother Rabbi Yitzchok Shwei's seforim, and Rabbi Yitzchok Reitport's seforim and others.

Over the years until he served as a member of the [[Crown Heights Beis Din]], he served as a Rosh Mesivta in Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Crown Heights.
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