[2] The yeshiva was closed in 2016 following years of acrimony between the current Gerrer Rebbe Yaakov Aryeh Alter and his first cousin Shaul over leadership of the Ger dynasty.

Yaakov Aryeh made a change in the Gerrer education system to exclusively study the Talmud in a concise fashion, and not the in-depth style which had been customary until then.

The Rebbe, who had been ailing for several years and was unable to walk unaided, was moved for his safety from his residence in the upper stories of the yeshiva to living quarters in the basement.

The decision sparked opposition from the municipality, which claimed that the presence of a grave in the heart of the now-developed city would be a potential source of contamination for the residents, but the funeral went ahead.

A small garden lies to the side of the ohel, and the wall of the building in the adjoining lot was redesigned to resemble the façade of the original Ger yeshiva in Poland.

The addition of a partially open roof to the ohel after the burial of the Pnei Menachem solves the problem of tumas meis (impurity from the dead) for students who are kohanim, and who therefore cannot be in proximity to a gravesite.

However, during the yahrzeits of the two Rebbes, thousands of people crowd into the ohel, effectively blocking the opening and spreading tumas meis from the graves into the yeshiva building.