Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, zt"l
By Yaakov Ort/Chabad.org | February 03, 2021 Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, zt"l, a chasidic rabbi; psychiatrist; prolific author of more than 60 popular books on Jewish spirituality and recovery from substance abuse; and founder and longtime head of the Gateway Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh, one of America’s leading facilities for addiction treatment, passed away on January 31 in Jerusalem from complications from coronavirus. He was 90 years old. Avraham Yehoshua Heschel Twerski was born in 1930 in Milwaukee to Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael and Devorah Twerski. His father was a ...
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