It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Avrohom Noach Garbuz zt”l, author of the Minchas Avrohom, rosh kollel of Kollel Har Ephraim, and one of the leading talmidei chachomim in Eretz Yisroel. He passed away at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Yerushalayim during the time of his grandson’s wedding in Bnei Brak. He was 91.

 
Rav Avrohom Noach was born in the Botei Natan neighborhood in Yerushalayim on the 12th of Shevat, a son of Rav Ephraim Zev Garbuz, one of the rosh yeshiva of the Ohel Torah Yeshiva and author of seforim Har Ephraim, and his mother, Mrs. Baila Miriam, a daughter of Rav Avrohom Noach Paley, mashgiach of the Chevron Yeshiva.
In his youth, he studied at the Chevron Yeshiva and later became one of the first talmidim of the Brisker rosh yeshiva, Rav Berel Soloveitchik. During his time in Brisk, he also learned from Rav Berel’s father, the Brisker Rov.
When he came of age, he married his wife, Rebbetzin Sarah, a daughter of Rav Bentzion Bruk, rosh yeshiva of the Novardoker Yeshiva in Yerushalayim.
After his marriage, he was appointed by his father-in-law to serve as the rosh yeshiva of the Novardok Yeshiva, a position he held until his father-in-law’s passing.
Following the passing of his father-in-law, he established the Har Ephraim Kollel, where he gave shiurim. Simultaneously, he delivered shiurim on Kodshim to chaburos from the Chevron Yeshiva, Brisk, as well as the Ponevezher Kollel, the Mir Yeshiva Kollel in Yerushalayim, and the Ateres Shlomo Kollel in Modi’in Illit.
He authored the Minchas Avrohom series on masechtos in Kodshim, as well as on Maseches Yoma. He also wrote seforim on Toras Kohanim and the Chamisha Chumshei Torah.
He was known as an enormous talmid chochom who diligently learned Torah day and night. He was connected to the greats of the generation, primarily to the gadol hador, Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach.
He leaves behind a family of prominent marbitzei Torah, including his sons Rav Binyomin, rov of the Or HaChaim neighborhood in Bnei Brak and a maggid shiur at the Breslov Yeshiva in Bnei Brak; Rav Tzvi, a maggid shiur at the Slabodka Yeshiva; Rav Ephraim Zev, rosh yeshiva of the Sechar Sochir Yeshiva; Rav Itamar, rosh yeshiva of the Orchos Torah Yeshiva; and Rav Aryeh, a maggid shiur at Yeshivas Mir Brachfeld.
The levayah was held at his home at 12 Rechov Even HaEzel in the Ezras Torah neighborhood in Yerushalayim, followed by kevurah on Har HaMenuchos.
Yehi zichro boruch.

{Matzav.com Israel}