His funeral set off last night from the Merkaz HaRav Kook yeshiva to the Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Libman, survived by his wife, children, brothers and sisters, was among the first to settle in newly liberated Hevron and Kiryat Arba in 1969. He moved several years ago with his family to Atzmona in Gush Katif, where he lived until the months before his death; his family was expelled under the recent Disengagement Plan.
Of late, he lived in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, where devoted students would often visit him for Sabbath-ending Melaveh Malkah meals. At times, he was to weak to meet with more than one or two students at a time.
Rabbi Libman taught at many leading yeshivot, including the recently displaced Torat HaChaim, which was thrown out of N'vei Dekalim and is now in Yad Binyamin. He was widely regarded as a tzaddik, a truly righteous person, and a leading Torah scholar. He was appointed by the late Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren to head the Idra Kollel opposite the Western Wall.
Rabbi Libman's son Shlomo, a student at the Joseph's Tomb Yeshiva, was killed by Arab terrorists in August 1998 while he was on civilian patrol in the Shomron community of Yitzhar.
Another son Eliyahu, an IDF reserves officer and the security officer of Hevron, is one of the few civilians to have received a medal of honor from the Chief of Staff. He received it for his role, as a civilian, in a battle against a terrorist ring. His son Yehuda is also a reserves IDF officer, and the director of the Joseph's Tomb Yeshiva. A fourth son, Yisrael, lives in Beit El and is active in the widely-acclaimed Paamonim charity organization. Several of the deceased's daughters live in other communities in Yesha.
Rabbi Libman, survived by his wife, children, brothers and sisters, was among the first to settle in newly liberated Hevron and Kiryat Arba in 1969. He moved several years ago with his family to Atzmona in Gush Katif, where he lived until the months before his death; his family was expelled under the recent Disengagement Plan.
Of late, he lived in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, where devoted students would often visit him for Sabbath-ending Melaveh Malkah meals. At times, he was to weak to meet with more than one or two students at a time.
Rabbi Libman taught at many leading yeshivot, including the recently displaced Torat HaChaim, which was thrown out of N'vei Dekalim and is now in Yad Binyamin. He was widely regarded as a tzaddik, a truly righteous person, and a leading Torah scholar. He was appointed by the late Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren to head the Idra Kollel opposite the Western Wall.
Rabbi Libman's son Shlomo, a student at the Joseph's Tomb Yeshiva, was killed by Arab terrorists in August 1998 while he was on civilian patrol in the Shomron community of Yitzhar.
Another son Eliyahu, an IDF reserves officer and the security officer of Hevron, is one of the few civilians to have received a medal of honor from the Chief of Staff. He received it for his role, as a civilian, in a battle against a terrorist ring. His son Yehuda is also a reserves IDF officer, and the director of the Joseph's Tomb Yeshiva. A fourth son, Yisrael, lives in Beit El and is active in the widely-acclaimed Paamonim charity organization. Several of the deceased's daughters live in other communities in Yesha.