Early Thursday morning on the tenth of Kislev, I was informed that R’ Shalom Dreyfuss had succumbed to the coronavirus.
Shalom was just 42 years old and left five orphan boys ranging in ages from 4 to 17.
After hespedim in Passaic, Shalom was buried in Lakewood, and the family began their shiva.
That Shabbos morning, when the four oldest boys began to recite Kaddish together, there was not a dry eye in the shul.
Besides the tragedy of the death and his leaving five orphans, Shalom was the baal korei of the shul. He had over 25 years of experience and was a baal korei par excellence.e had leined the entire Torah, and just this past Sukkos he leined Koheles in the shul.