In spite of the slight improvements in his condition that took place over Shabbat, the Rebbe of Erlau, Rabbi Yochanan Sofer, took a drastic turn for the worse on Sunday, and doctors are now fearing for his life.
In a statement made by his doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Sunday morning, the doctors said that “we do not wish to worry the public, but we need to let people know about his actual current condition. The situation right now is critical and we are asking people to gather in synagogues to pray for him and open the gates of mercy.”
Rabbi Sofer, who is known as the “Elder of the Admorim”, has been in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Hadassah hospital for the past week.
He was hospitalized on the fourth of February after admitting himself under his own power.
Sofer has been hospitalized numerous times in recent years, and even suffered a stroke in Switzerland a few years ago.