A memorial service for Rabbi Chaim Nachman Kowalsky will be held here at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College on Jan. 26. He died Jan. 3 at the age of 85 and had been associated with the college for close to 40 years. He had been described as the aristocrat of “meshullachim” (money collectors for charitable causes) and over the decades reportedly collected some $3 million going door-to-door throughout the United States and Canada.
Born in Warsaw, he studied in the most prestigious yeshivas of Gerer and Sorchover and with the Lubavitcher rebbes in Russia. He came to the U.S. in 1927 to collect for the Meah Shearim Yeshiva in Jerusalem and in 1938 began to work for the college here . At that time there were only 40 students, but today more than 400 students attend from all over the world. Shortly before his death, Kowalsky was planning a $10 million condominium-social center complex in Florida.
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