Rabbi Tuvia Bloy, 90, OBM
We are deeply saddened to report the passing of Rabbi Tuvia Bloy, one of the eldest Chabad rabbanim, who served as the rabbi of the Chabad community in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood and was a founder of the Beis Chana high school in Jerusalem, which he led for more than 40 years • Read More
We are deeply saddened to report the passing of Rabbi Tuvia Bloy, one of the eldest Chabad rabbanim, who served as the rabbi of the Chabad community in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood and was a founder of the Beis Chana high school in Jerusalem, which he led for more than 40 years. He was 90.
Rabbi Bloy served as the rabbi of the Chabad community in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood and was a founder and longtime principal of the Beis Chana girls’ high school in Jerusalem, which he led for more than 40 years.
Born on 16 Iyar 5696 (1936), he was the son of Rabbi Boruch Yehuda Bloy, a leader of Poalei Agudas Yisrael (PAGI) in Jerusalem, and the grandson of Rabbi Moshe Bloy, chairman of Agudas Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael.
As a young man, he was drawn to the Belz and Gur Chassidic courts and regularly attended the tish of the Gerrer Rebbe, the Beis Yisrael. In 1953, he was introduced to Chabad by Rabbi Avraham Leib Klein, head of the Hasmidim Yeshivah, who also brought his brothers, Rabbi Yosef Bloy and Rabbi Amram Bloy, closer to Chabad.
Rabbi Bloy helped establish Chabad’s network of neighborhood evening yeshivos in Jerusalem under the leadership of Rabbi Shmuel Elazar Halperin, rosh yeshivah of Toras Emes.
He married Chana Frumet Rosenberg, daughter of Rabbi Chaim Uri Rosenberg, on 20 Kislev 5715 (1954).
Following his marriage, he worked closely with Rabbi Shmuel Menachem Mendel Schneerson, director of Colel Chabad, to spread the Rebbe’s teachings among Jerusalem’s Charedi community through Tzeirei Agudas Chabad. After the organization was restructured at the Rebbe’s instruction in 1959, Rabbi Bloy was appointed to its new executive alongside Rabbi Yehoshafat Alpert and Rabbi Tzvi Eisenbach, serving in that capacity for approximately 30 years.
In 1975, he was appointed principal of Beis Chana, a position he held for more than four decades.
A prolific writer and scholar, Rabbi Bloy began contributing to the Chabad Journal in 1959. Following the passing of his close friend Rabbi Uriel Zimmer, he completed Zimmer’s translation of Sefer HaZichronos and went on to produce numerous additional translations.
In 1970, he authored an article explaining the Rebbe’s methodology in Rashi, which, at the Rebbe’s secretariat’s request, was expanded into the landmark work Klalei Rashi. First published in 1980, it was later reissued in 1991 and again in a greatly expanded edition in 2018 with the assistance of his grandsons, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Bloy and Rabbi Moshe Levi Yitzchak Laufer.
In 1980, Rabbi Bloy joined the editorial staff of Kfar Chabad magazine, where he wrote the well-known column “Da Mah SheTashiv” (“Know What to Answer”), addressing ideological challenges to Chabad. Rabbi Binyomin Klein, one of the Rebbe’s secretaries, later recalled that the Rebbe described his essays as “ringing articles,” praising their powerful impact. He remained with Kfar Chabad until 1990 and later edited Pardes Chabad from 1997 to 2007.
With the establishment of the Levi Yitzchak Institute, Rabbi Bloy also translated the Rebbe’s Likkutei Sichos from Yiddish into Hebrew. He additionally wrote under several pen names, including “A. Choker” (“A. Researcher”) and “T. Me’aleil.”
Rabbi Bloy passed away during the shloshim of his wife.
He is survived by his children: Mrs. Leah Laufer of Ashdod, Rabbi Peretz Uriel Bloy, Mrs. Raizel Halperin of Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Yaakov Meir Bloy of Jerusalem, and Mrs. Shaina Tzipora Wilhelm of Nachlas Har Chabad, as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Baruch Dayan Haemes.
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