I just received the bitter news that Rav Yehuda Landy zt"l was niftar. He was from the most brilliant Torah historians of our generation, with knowledge of every inch of Eretz Yisroel.
He was my cousin, a descendant of the Gra. He was 64.
Truly a loss. Yehi zichro baruch.
@Yochidonn Baruch Dayan HaEmet. He had been through Shas over a hundred times, and we pin tested him when I was in high school.
He was about to put out his sefer on Yehoshua, but this brain tumor stopped him. I don't understand how anyone understands Esther or Yirmiyah without him.
@SeforimChatter Baruch Dayan HaEmet. He had been through Shas over a hundred times, and we pin tested him in high school. He was about to put out his sefer on Yehoshua, but this brain tumor stopped him.
@SephardicWhouse Rav Eliyahu Ben-Haim used to be Hacham Yehoshua Sharabani's baal koreh and says the latter used to be very medakdek! Ayen also in Rabbenu HaOhr Letzion vol. 1 for some great stories of his gadlut.
@SephardicWhouse@Yahrtzeits Rabbi Batzri/Machon HaKtav put out a few of them, plus the Tosefta with his commentary is available. Overall, someone like Machon HaMaor has to step up and redo all of them.