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Rabbi Yechiel Yerachmiel Naparstek, 92, Dies in Kfar Chabad on Chol Hamoed Pesach

The veteran Tomchei Temimim alumnus served for decades as Beis Rivkah Seminary’s secretary.

Overview

  • Rabbi Naparstek, who died Monday during Chol Hamoed Pesach at age 92, was a respected Chabad Chossid and longtime Kfar Chabad resident.
  • The funeral was scheduled to leave his home at 19 Toras Shmuel Street in Kfar Chabad at 1:00 PM and continue from Jerusalem’s Shamgar Funeral Home at 3:30 PM en route to the Mount of Olives.
  • He worked for many years as secretary of the Beis Rivkah Seminary in Kfar Chabad, a central girls’ school in the community.
  • Born in Poland in 1933, he survived wartime hardship in Soviet Russia, studied in the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva network in Europe and Israel, and helped pioneer Kfar Chabad.
  • He is survived by his wife and a large family, with burial planned in the Chabad section on Har Hazeisim, the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem.