Funeral Details

המקום ינחם אתכם

Debi & Aryeh Furst

We are so sorry to hear of your loss.
May HaShem comfort you among the mourners
of Tzion and Yerushalaim

Naftoli and Miriam Lehmann

So sorry to hear about your father. BDE

Efraim Nagel

המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים

May your husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather be a meilitz yosher for the entire family…

Tzodok & Shoshana Akkerman

So sorry

David Rubin

By listening to the hespedim of Rabbi Jacob Elchanan Frankenthal's sons, I managed to grasp so clearly, albeit in short, how much of his Torah, Life and even humor I was zoche to learn under the years I learned under his son - and my dear and beloved - Rav Netanel Frankenthal in Jerusalem and then some more by connecting to his Torah while in different geographies.

I was all ears when personal stories were shared during shiurim, when family examples were brought, the sidelines that make messorah come to life, make it so real, make it so valuable, so precious and worthwhile to live with it, through it and for it.

Never ever I dared to ask for more of those stories, because as put so well in one of the hespedim and in my own words "let them come to me", as I wouldn't dare to make the move - but I always had been thirsty for them, let them come naturally, that is, in their own time and by their own accord.

I might have seldomly and wantingly treaded slightly onto a threshold that's not mine, to ask and inquire further to quench the fire of restlessness about the World, about Creation, about oneself, about all a Jew ever wants in spiritually, in halacha, in Yiddishkeit and Mensch-ship. About a Torah that is so human, so accepting, so universal, so heartwarming without burning and so actual! One that can indeed heal, oneself and others wholesomely!

Even when the message was "in a nutshell...", it was a lot to be mitbonen, a lot to crack, a lot to inspect externally and internally, to extract and let's the process begin once more.
The answers were likely and precisely not just found in what was said, in the way they were said, but also in what was not said.

By listening to the 'invented quotes' of Rabbi Jacob Elchanan Frankenthal I heard so many advices given to me time after time, some that I tend to repeat in my mind to myself too often until this very day. If I knew I might have pushed harder...

All your hespedim touched me very deeply, not just because someone else's pain moves and pains me, not just because it pains me to see the pains of my Rav, but also because it pains me to see a part of my Torah go out of this world - upwards, uowards - even when I was not fully aware of it until now.

I guess that one, somehow, can be mekasher nafsho with someone else who he never met personally. I might have found it to be true tonight and not just in an empiric or potential way and I humbly share your pain.

Please, accept my deeply tanchumin to you all and to your dear mother.

May you continue to find strength and inspiration in the Torah and the teaching you have received, and may they continue to guide you in all your endeavors.

Bezalel Ben Zion

דודי היקר ואהוב
לחוות אותי באהבה כל חיי. היית שם בשבילי כמו אבא מגן, אוהב ונותן עצות חכמות.
אתגעגע לחוכמה שלך. לבדיחות שלך ולחיבוק החזק שממיס כל כאב.

תהיי מליץ יושר על כל עם ישראל שכל כך אהבת

ולדודה אנט היקרה שלי
צביקה, הלל, נתי, איתמר וצורי היקרים
המקום ינחם אתכם בין שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים ולא תוסיפו דאבה עוד

מחבקים ובוכים אתכם
שושי עודד אורית וגלעד

שושי ברחד

Dear Frankenthal Family

Over the years my family and myself benefited immensely from Rav N. Frankenthal's teaching, kindness and leadership. Listening to the Hespedim this morning I came to realize how your late father was his role-model, epitomizing this amazing combination of a talmid chacham with unbending emuna, great insight into the human condition enabling gmilus chesed at the highest level, leadership, fearlessness and of course the signature sense of humor that ties everything together.

I hope you find nechama in this difficult time knowing that that all his accomplishments live on and so many people around the globe keep benefiting from what he started.

Moshe Fink
Kochav Yaakov

Moshe Fink

Such a beautiful tribute! I remember Mr. Frankenthal speaking at Itamar and Hadassah’s sheva brochot in West Hempstead. Even then I could tell he was a very bright and kind person.
יהי זכרו ברוך.

Sari and Stuie Apfel

So sorry for your loss.

Shlomo & Stella Weiss

We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Elchanon .Z.L .He was very special in many wonderful ways...We are all the poorer by his petirah and pray that Hahem will bring solace and consolation to the family

Herbert Schlager

BDE. So sorry to hear about the untimely petira of Elchanan. We were not aware that he had been sick. Our deepest condolences to Annette, Zvi, Hillel, Nati, Itamar, Tzuriel, the respective spouses and grandchildren.
Yaakov Elchanan Frankenthat, Jeff, was like a big brother to me, watching over me during my early years living in the states. We had first met in the mid-80'ies, when his business brought him to South Africa and he visited the Bet Din. We kept in contact and when I took a vacation to America, he personally introduced me to both the OU & Kof-K. Two years later, he not only helped me procure a job at the OU, but also guided me to his brother in law Mr. Rubin, who was practicing immigration law at the time, to obtain the necessary work papers.
I was a ben bayit in the Frankenthal home in Monsey and was privileged to attend all their Bnei Mitzva and school graduations. I was also invited to his Wisconsin & Chicago plants.
A wonderful man who will be sorely missed by all,
המקום ינחם אתכם
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Michael & Chanie Morris

Tzvi,
Brenda and I attempted several times to reach you to pay a shiva call. We were unable to get through. I am sure because the numerous number of life’s he touched. We remember,like yesterday, when we spent shabbosism at you in-laws home. You parents often joined
us whethe it was shabbos night or shabbos lunch.! Your parents had a special relationship with each other and our uncle and aunt. You father, not to exclude your mother, are were very special people in thieir ingratiating personalities, and exuded the warmth of torah and their true friendship and respect for all. You father had a spark of dry wit. .
Tzvi, I listed to your hespid of your father two times.
As you said you had a very special relationship. He taught you well לשמר ולעשב. His message was clear. May you continue to share that with Ori and you beautiful children and their spouses.
May you fathers nehashama be a meilitz yoshar for klall yisroel
Stan and Brenda



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Stan & Brenda Goldstein

To the Frankenthal Family.
Please accept my condolences on the passing of Jacob.

How do I know him? Did we ever meet?
No. We did not.

It is thru my relationship with Itamar these last several years that I believe I have witnessed the expression of his living legacy by participating in the life of Jtamar.

With admiration and respect for Itamar, I can only imagine the magnitude of the good that you are all bringing into the world…from Jacob.

May his memory be a blessing.

Richard J. Bell

Richard Bell