hundreds of thousands of people came to attend the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanevsky

The siren instructing to stop working was sounded in the city of Bnei Brak and hundreds of thousands of people came to attend the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanevsky, the ultra-Orthodox "great man of the generation," who passed away on Friday, about two hours before Shabbat. The masses recited Psalms to uplift the soul of the rabbi - and the slichot that are practiced in the days of Teshuvah and Yom Kippur. During the eulogies and the funeral itself was kept quiet.
At the beginning of the funeral procession from the rabbi's house, on Rashbam Street - to the "Zichron Meir" cemetery in Bnei Brak, masses of mourners gathered around the car, and in the announcement repeatedly demanded to stay away: "Danger to life, go back." About a mile and a half.The rabbi's sons and grandsons do not accompany the deceased to the cemetery, as is the custom of the place, and they are gathered in their home.At the end of the funeral, the police will not allow entry to the cemetery, in order to prevent a rush to the place.
Tens of thousands of people have started flowing to Bnei Brak from all over the country since the end of Shabbat, upon learning of the police decision to close the city starting at 6 a.m. today (Sunday). The funeral procession is one of the largest known to the State of Israel, and is attended by Jews living abroad. More than 1,700 buses have arrived in the city since this morning, and some are parked on Highway 4, which was closed and turned into an improvised bus parking lot. , One of them a policeman - they were treated on the spot, and six were evacuated for further medical treatment.
Rabbi Chaim Kanevsky's successor and his partner in the leadership, Rabbi Gershon Eldstein (98), paid tribute to him and said that "the whole world was affected by him. They asked for blessings, prayers. He would have such physical and spiritual influences, which are now neither here nor in the whole world."
He urged the public to respond: "What does this require of us? What must we do now? What should we do? Awaken, awaken, awaken. Add rights, add rights, add rights," he said.
Rabbi Shlomo Kanevsky, the rabbi's son, praised him: "Father, how did you leave us so suddenly. We would not have been ready before, otherwise we would have torn the gates of heaven (in prayers), but God took you in a kiss death. How can I eulogize you? "He asked." I can only tell stories of small children. When we were little kids fifty years ago and more on Saturday nights in the winter we would play with our dad. What would we play? "The game was that my big brother and I also sometimes called him sages' articles according to the alphabet and he had to say what the source was. He was one of his generation in these things, but we as small children did not know how to contain what we see."