18 Comments

• dovid

  r’ shimshon we will all miss you

• ch guy

  r’shimshon was a special person

  he helped me in lots of ways and would never take anything back from me

  thank you rabbi shimshon
  there is nobody like you

• Secret Admirer

  It was a surreal experience yesterday. A person like Shimshon who brought so much simcha to the world was checking out. Whoever I grabbed onto became a pitcher of overflowing tears like myself. The emotions of everyone was so highly charged. The crowd was made up of his family, long time friends and his customers. His family always knew what he was all about. The friends were attracted to him like a magnet for his goodkeit, charismatic personality and notoriety. His customers knew who they could always depend upon. Never a No! Shimshon was always there. Shimshon was always there for me and my family when I had to make a Bar Mitzva,make a wedding and send girls to seminary. I was a customer, a friend and a relative.
  He always told us BT’s. “ I AM YOUR FAAATHER.” Now, Shimshon you should know you didn’t help us in vain. It is our turn to help others through CSSY.

• fran p

  everyone who knew him loved him and in death a person has more power than in life i for one will not let a day go by not to honor his great legacy of giving all you can to make this world a better place for others. please give all you can to his great mitva how better to let his memory live on forever i love you and will remember you forever.

• talmid of oheli torah 73----76

  wow !!! He will be missed ,big time..what a yid
  full of chesed , helpping jews not just from chabad and crown hights. but from
  all over the world,, food -sheduciem-
  sholom bayet – a person to talk 2 –
  u could tell him any thing , and just the way it is . and he understood and he knew how to help . . he should be a maylits yosher. for all of us . and to send down moshiac now !!
  he knows how hard life is , and how much we need moshiac

• An old friend missing you tons already!

  One man accomplished soooooo much! What a ‘living example’ Shimshon was! Who will now teach our kinderlach ‘true happiness coupled with pure chesed’? There are thousands of TRUE amazing stories that can be told without digging into our memories! He lived life to the fulles untio the very very end! Your pain was his pain. He never complained about his ailments and he could have complained plenty! This alone is a huge lesson learned from him. Your happiness was his double happiness! If we each try to take upon us just one of his virtues IMAGINE what this could do? We could actually be bringing Moshiach!!!!~ Shimshon Hatzakik we hope to see you again very very very soon!!!!!!!!

• Fellow yidden whom you helped

  Thank you R’ Shimshon. May you be our advocate, and bring Moshiach now! I’m sorry I didn’t find out in time to be there.

• a crown hieghtser on the west coast

  Shimshon,
  The last time I saw you, you told me u were coming to my end of town, for ur great grandson’s upsherin. U told me that I should make sure u had good company there. We all laughed. U told me not to forget that it was my husband that mattered, not the location. In the end, your love for your Martha is what broke the camel’s back.
  We should all be zoche to the abilities to make any one smile, the innate nature of going out of our ways to do chesed “far Yenem” and love our spouses in the manner that you did.
  May you be a mailitz yosher for all your family,,, (everyone you considered family) and maybe you can come up to the bais din shel ma’aloh and get Hashem to send us moshiach NOW!

• menachem

  shimshon was a very special person full of chesed, hell be missed by all.

  just wanted to point out, sometimes a very special person passes away on a day were many people just cant attend the levaya, and a levaya is the last farewell to a person. im sure that if the levaya wouldnt fall out on a inconvenient day there would be 4 times more people, but really by shimshon it doesnt really matter because everyone knows how special he was..

• A Bochur

  i remember one time Erev Shabbos i think Chof Beis Shvat by the Ohel, in the tent after a whole day sitting and colecting Tzedaka for CSSY, after making his last famouse announcement “laaast chance..” R’ Shimshon got up turned around and announced to everybody sitting “good shabbos to you all sorry i can’t join you for shabbos, but you should all know than you mad the right dicision to stay here for Shabbos”
  thank you r’ shimshon for always encouraging us and keeping us smile, please go Straight to the Rebbe and beg for Moshiach Now!!

• NUMBERS DONT LIE--

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• Naftoli from Down Under

  The mark of a truly great person is that no one has a bad thing to say about Reb Shimshon. Anyone who even met him just once knows this. We’ll miss you!!

• me

  i did not read all the comments, and i’m not sure if anyone will read mine, but shimshon was a tzadik

• Levaya

  I dont think that purim is an excuse of not to be at Shimshon Hakohens Levaya….

• from the mountains of yehuda

  bs”d
  we love shimshon and shimshon loves us. now we can really davon for t’chias hamaasim.

• Eliezer

  shimshon HaGibor!!!

• ari

  can you consoladate the comments from the three articles please. Many people would like to read them all.

  thanks

• Josh

  Shimshon you taught us that tzedkah is a responsibility .its our mitzvah to do always. the REBEE turned over worlds that we be chaitable . to give and give and give., Shimshon we will all miss you and never forget that we honor your memory by giving giving and giving again. we want and need MOSHIACH NOW!