Editing Simcha Elberg (section)

== Life History ==
Rabbi Elberg (center) at the Rebbe's dollar distribution Born in 1911 in Warsaw to Rabbi Aharon Shimon (one of the great Skernovich Chassidim) and Gittel Elberg. In his childhood, he was educated by his grandfather (his mother's father), Rabbi Eliyahu Yehuda Lifshitz, Av Beis Din in the town of Gritza in Poland. During that period, his grandfather would include him in meetings attended by the great Torah leaders of that generation. In his youth, he studied in the first class of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin and later became close to Rabbi Menachem Zemba and Rabbi Avraham Weinberg (author of "Reishis Bikkurim"). Simultaneously, he also studied in the kollel for exceptional students in Warsaw called "Emek Halacha," headed by Rabbi Natan Shpigelglas.

In 1936, at the age of twenty-five, he published his first book "Menachem Bikkurim" containing novellae and explanations in all areas of Torah. The book includes approbations from Rabbi Menachem Zemba, Rabbi Shpigelglas, and the Rebbe of Sokolov.

During World War II, he moved to the Slabodka Yeshiva in Kovno. As the war progressed, he was forced to leave Lithuania and arrived at the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai. While in Shanghai, he was a frequent visitor at the homes of the Rebbe of Amshinov and the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, who maintained a friendship with him throughout his life. After completing his studies at the yeshiva, he married the daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Zelig Slutzker, the rabbi of Harbin, China. During his stay in Shanghai, he was close to Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi, a Chabad Chassid and the rabbi of Shanghai at that time.

After his wedding, Rabbi Elberg arrived in the United States, where his Torah scholarship became well-known. He became a confidant of the great rabbis in America and the personal assistant to Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. For about fifty years, he served as an active member of Agudas HaRabbanim in the United States and Canada, and for many years was its chairman. At the same time, he was the editor of the monthly Torah journal "HaPardes," which served as a well-known platform for Torah publications by great Torah scholars. In 1995, he founded and established the Mesivta "Beis Avraham v'Emek Halacha," named after his teacher from Poland, Rabbi Avraham Weinberg.

On the eve of Sukkos 1996, Rabbi Elberg suffered a severe heart attack and his condition worsened. Two weeks later, on Wednesday, 8 Cheshvan 1996, he passed away (85) and was buried on Har HaMenuchos in Jerusalem.