Please share with the rest of us your memories (add a new comment below this post or send me an e-mail)

Please pledge to learn a Mishna in the memory of the Mes Mitzva and Tzaddik Uri Ben Menachem Halevi.a

• The shloshim will be on Monday, 17 Nissan (first day of chol hamoed)(April 9th, 2012). Click here to pledge to learn a mishna for the for the shloshim: http://www.lzechernishmas.com/signup.php?id=1079
• The first Yahrzeit will be 17 Adar 5773 (27 February 2013). Click here to pledge to learn a mishna for the yahrzeit http://www.lzechernishmas.com/signup.php?id=1075

On Sunday, 11 March 2012, I received a message that Rabbi Uri Weinberg a”h (Uri Ben Menachem Halevi), or as he was known Reb Uri, passed away in Yerushalayim after a massive heart attack in his home, which was in the Batei Ungarin.

I met him for the first time in about 2000 when my brother introduced me to him. The first time I saw him, I never imagined that the man standing in front of me with his trademarked grey jacket was no simple man; he was a