Elyakim Rosenblatt

Rabbi Elyakim Getzel Rosenblatt (1933March27, 2019) was an American Orthodox rabbi. He was the founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Kesser Torah in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens.

Early life Rosenblatt was born in 1933 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. He attended Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin for elementary and high school, before going to learn in the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland and the Yeshiva Chafetz Chaim in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Shlomo Carlebach was his chavrusa (study-partner) there for some time. In 1958, he married Trani Rosenblatt, who would one day be referred to by Rosenblatt as "my partner in Torah". The yeshiva was named after a sefer. A dorm was added in 1980. In 1994, a rebbi in the yeshiva suggested that they relocate to Kew Garden Hills, where they would be able to attract more people, and a plot was purchased in the center of Kew Gardens Hills' Jewish community.

Rosenblatt died on March 27, 2019. His funeral was held at Yeshiva Kesser Torah that same day, and he was buried at the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York. A fifth sefer, based on his musar teachings, was published after his death, under the same name. Rosenblatt was known to be very musical. It has been said that Aharon Kotler would ask him and two other students in Beth Medrash Govoha to sing at shalosh seudos (the third Sabbath meal). He composed many songs which are available on his Shaar Haneginah CDs.