43 Comments

• frend

  some times the most holy pepole are in this whorld not as a rabbi but as a angel from go-d sent down to help us -ive knowing him most of my life he is the most open hart person youl ever find .Shimshon you on this day will go strght up to the highist gates of shmiem and go-d him self will great you with open hands tell go-d no more pain no more sorow bring moshich now we cant wate we wont wate and dont hezitate stop your games with us its over nemas lee cfar tfsk em za

• Devastated Friends

  There are no words to say. We are truly lost here in CH.

  In the Zchus of Shimshon OBM,the most wonderful& generous man, we ask you all to give generously to CSSY this Purim day, and every other Yom Tov & Shabbos to make sure CSSY continues as he wanted and did all these years. We will never forget him and everything he did for this neighborhood.

• respected jew

  he was a true tzadik and had a heart of gold who helped 1000snds of ppl lovingly
  he will go straight to garden of eden

• friend

  baruch dayan haemes
  SUCH A NICE MAN!
  HOW COULD ANYTHING NOT GOOD BE DONE TO HIM!
  WE WILL TRULY MISS YOU, SHIMSHON!

• crown heightser

  boruch dayen emes he was and is a wonderfull man

• devasted

  i will never forget shimshon sitting at the ohle for 24 hours asking people to contribute to the needy..
  i allways wondered why only shimshon is collecting at the ohle guimmel tammuz when theres a crowd of over 25.000, i found out later that abba refson (in charge of the ohel) only let shimshon collect, its not hard for me to imagine why. he was such a special person.

• FlatbushChabadsker

  How ironic, he passed away on Purim.

  A giant of a man. I will never forget his humor and love of life.

  Crown Heights has lost another pillar.

  BD”E

• ()

  Does anyone know any stories from the Time R’ shimshon was the Rebbe’s “Chavursa” (yes, it’s true)?

• close friends

  PURIM WAS HIS BEST DAY IN THE YEAR
  HOW COULD THAT BE DONE
  HES NOT JUST A FRIEND OF CROWN HEIGHTS
  BUT MY FAMILY HAS A VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH SHIMSHON…
  WE MISS YOU ALREADY. SHIMSHON!

• :(

  boruch dayen emaes

• one of his adopted kids

  Only Shimshon could have a levaya with people in constume – he had the last laugh after all
  A special, special person – really irreplaceable
  Hashem should give lots of strength to Martha, his children, grandchildren, and all of us, his extended family to keep going the short time until Moshiach

• Friend

  R’ Shimshon was a yeshiva bochur and it was before Yud Shevat, the Rebbe suggested that they learn together instead of R’ Shimshon using his free time for other things so they set up a chavrusa to learn shulchan aruch and they learned together for about 6 weeks

• Friend

  R’ Shimshon was a yeshiva bochur and it was before Yud Shevat, the Rebbe suggested that they learn together instead of R’ Shimshon using his free time for other things so they set up a chavrusa to learn shulchan aruch and they learned together for about 6 weeks

• matanos l-evyonim

  couls somenone please tell us how to give money to his organization. I would love to do so today but I have no idea how to start. Thank you.

• shimshon hatzadik

  maybe he was “nistalek” on this holy day because hashem kissed him in a special way being that shimshon tried to bring happiness, just what purim represents.

  shimshon tried to show us the purim side of life at all times.

  the people he helped. a tried and true tazdik.

  i remember walking on the street once and he stopped me and asked him to help him with boxes. i was shocked being that it was a rich looking house.

  shimshon knew of the hidden pain in the community and worked tirelessly to alleviate the pain.

  i heard that he would send anonymous valentine’s day cards to couples who were having problems, so that the husband/wife should think the other sent it.

  his neshomoh sits in gan eden. may we merit to see him soon with the rebbe.

• David

  WOW, WOW, WOW. I didn’t know R’ Shimon, but everyone I’ve met today is speaking about this giant of Chessed, with a heart bigger than one can imagine. Hashem should grant us all the atrength to be just that little better in the Zechus of this 100% pure person. We should be Zocher to have the Simcha of Purim lead right on, onto Moshiach….

• Secret Admirer

  Woe onto the BT’s & others. Who will be willing to step up to the plate and care as much as this special man. His specialty was Yesonim and almonos. Before they knew what they needed he was on his way to find out what he coud do for them. Let’s hear from all the young people who are making such big bucks to make one of their best investments. CSSY the “Stock” never goes down and your profit of helping others is phenemonal. There are plenty of customer to choose from. Hashem bless his wife Matel bas Chana Fruma with gezunt and give his children koach to follow in this special man’s footstep. I really loved him.

• one of his 95 girlfriends

  We are obligated to remember Shimshon and everything he stood for…for our sake and especially for the sake of our children – we must teach them who Shimshon was and try as much as possible to perpetuate everything he stood for. He was a Ish Emes. He was not impressed by “glitter” but loved the truth. He made himself available several (special) days troughout the year to allow others to contribute to CSSY. Thereby enabling us the opportunity to share in his very holy work. His love for everyone was incredible. Any injustice ate at his gut and he did everything in his power to right as many wrongs as possible. If I had to describe Shimshon in one sentence “He fought for truth regardless of the consequence and fought till the end .” We need him back together with our Rebbe. Moshiach we need you NOW!!!!

• beloved friend forever

  Shimshon was so full of love and life it is hard to imagine he has passed away.
  Shimshon was the epitome of chesed and ahavas yisroel. He always had the time, energy, and means to help his fellow Jews, and get things done to make a difference in their lives. He lived and breathed ahavas yisroel.
  He had the biggest heart and the best sense of humour. How we would laugh together!
  So hard to say goodbye, at least until Moshiach comes.

• A Friend

  Shimshon, where can one start? Today we lost a real integral, special outstanding member of our crumbling community. We should mourn his way, with happiness that he is in a better place, even if it’s hard because we feel the pain of his loss so strongly here. He was outspoken, and really fought for what he believed was right, not caring what anyone thought, how many of us here can say we do that? His tzedekah cause was always close to his heart wether it be collecting or giving with a kind open generous hand. However i believe it is his very unique sense of humor that will be most missed…shimshon could put a smile on any face he knew just what to say to make us laugh, smaile and just feel good about ourselves. Shimshon as your friend I salute your life and will really miss you.

• crying buckets

  It seems as if a piece of Crown Heights is missing now. Shimshon was one of the first people I met when I came to Crown Heights 25 years ago. If anyone can nudge Hashem to finally let us have Moshiach….. Shimshon can. I know it won’t be much longer.

• great nephew

  shimshon you are my best great uncle

• an old neigbor from the block

  i will always remenber one purim i passed by r’s.stock and a lot of people were there to give tzedaka….it was really HIS special day,standing on his porch all day……but what i remenber that day is that he said..“look at this pictures of the REBBE puttind tsedaka in my pushka….it’s the only picture you will find of the REBBE havind BOTH his hands in the pushka”…….we have to continue supporting r’stock organization…..

• Yossel

  B”H

  Shimshon made many, many, many Shidduchim and there are hundreds of yidden who owe their very existence to him and his wonderful wife Martha.

  He is a giant of a man who can never be replaced, and Shimshon may you be the one who makes such a huge STHURIM in Shamaim (like you used to do in 770) so that Hashem finally brings the Geula Sheima immediately NOW!!!

  WE NEED YOU SHIMSHON HERE IN OLAM HAZEH AND WE LOVE YOU!!!

• single in ch

  Shimshon helped every single single parent in Crown Heights with a complete devotion to their plight. He understood and cared and raised their morale. He also took care of many of their needs , and specialyfood and money before YOmim Tovim. What a loss, there are no words of consolation for this great loss of a man so dedicated to his community.

• Yet another admirer

  “Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov is here, Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov is here!

  ”Open your wallets, pull out a dollar, and give me the rest!”

  Boruch Dayan Ha’emes.

• I Schier

  I met him only once for a minute if that, and all I can say is that yesterday must have been a very happy Purim in Gan Eden.

  Boruch Dayan Emes – and we should be zoiche NOW to “vehekitzu…vehu besoicham!”

• SG

  Chabad has lost one of its greatest people. The best times I’ve ever spent in Crown Heights were in his home. My first time ever in CH was a chaf bais shvat when I was in high school and I stayed in his basement with a bunch of other girls. We were fortunate to have seen the best Crown Heights had to offer right from the start. I hope many Crown Heightsers step up and fill the void he has left behind, selflessly raising tzedakah and helping needy families. Shimshon will be greatly missed.

• Heartbroken

  Shimshon was a giant of a man who changed the lives of hundreds of people. Words cannot describe a man who lived and breathed tzedaka and chesed every minute of his life. I went to his house on Purim to give Matanos L’evyonim and there was his box on the porch but I could not believe that he wasn’t sitting there screaming “chevras simchas shabbos v’yom tov” like always
  To “matanos l-evyonim” and anyone who wants to give tzedaka to CSSY and is not sure how to go about it:
  The CSSY headquarters are 593 Montgomery st. Tzedaka was collected on Purim at that address and will continue to be collected there.
  CSSY will continue to help the people in Crown Heights until Moshich comes.
  May Hashem bentch Matal bas Chana Fruma (Martha) and all of Shimshon’s children and grandchildren with gezunt and strength to continue in Shimshon’s outstanding ways.

• Susan Slesinger

  We were lucky enough to meet and spend time with Shimshon on a number of occasions in California. he had an amazing outlook on life and marriage, and his advice was priceless—I will always treasure those conversations with him. The stories we heard about him were funny yet carrying an important message. Perhaps he chose to die on Purim so that people will say a l”chaim on his yahrzeit—it seems so in character to have a party in his memory.

• Shimon

  Shimshon’s passing is a GREAT loss for us in CH.
  He will be truly missed.

  To the Stock family .Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

• mourner

  please let us know who is sitting shiva and where so we can be menachem availim.

• anonymous

  I heard from one of Shimshon’s relatives that every morning at 7 am Shimshon would stand on his porch waiting to see his grandson off to yeshiva and all the neighbors could hear him shout “Learn Torah!!” This happened every morning for years!!

• Mendy Pellin

  I have too much to say about Shimshon.

  No single person will understand the impact he had on countless people!

• moshiach now

  shiva is at 593 montgomery st.
  bet brooklyn and kingston

• yh

  shiva is at 593 montgomery st.
  bet brooklyn and kingston

• SS

  Some memories
  Shimshon could push the envelope like no one else in Chabad when it came to social conventions, and no one minded cause of his great big heart.
  Shimshon was known to scream when collecting for Chevra Simcha v’Shabboss, shoving his cardboard box into men’s faces in 770 saying things like, ‘I know you made alot of gelt in the stock market this year, you can give more than that!’, or “Give! It’s for the people!”.
  He could be a mischevious but harmless flirt, calling the women his ‘girlfriends’, but never, ever meaning it as anything but ahavas yisroel and no one took it in a bad way, but in a fun way.
  He would sit in the evenings at his kitchen table answering phone call after call of pleas for all kinds of help. In a typical evening he would be finding a place to live for a battered woman, answering investment questions, offering shidduchium, marriage counseling, and telling off community members whom he felt had done the wrong thing, always with a gleam of humour and love in his eye, often times yelling, but never harshly, and never uttering a complaint that the burden was too great.
  When I was single he once offered me a shidduch with someone from interstate and I refused because I said I woudn’t move outside NY. ‘What is wrong with the women today?,“ he commented, ‘you go wherever your husband has a parnosa!” That was Shimshon, he never minced words, never held back his strong opinions, and he was totally and utterly selfless.
  And who can forget the time he said to the Rebbe at the dollar line, (paraphrasing) ‘Rebbe, you have to take care of your health, what would we all do if something should happen to you?“ to which the Rebbe replied as he gestured towards Heaven with his finger, ‘You have Hashem.”
  Shimshon’s inimitable ways can never be duplicated and it was a privlege to have known him. I can picture him dancing with the Rebbe right now, with his cap, and his big smile. Oh, how he will be missed!
  SS

• A Stock at birth

  Just a few months ago Shimshon called me to tell me that he needed to meet with me so we could talk about something very important. We set up a time and I went over. He asked me to please call someone I know, and talk to her and try to put certain ideas into her head which he thought might help sholom bayis before it got into trouble because he heard about something. But, to be very careful not to mention his name or her husband’s name or anyone else, but to give her this advice as if it was my own and in a way that she would never even know that she was being helped. He also told me not to mention this to anyone, because it could only be bad for sholom bayis, and the only people who need to know are those that can do something to correct it in a non-threatening way. Of course he called to make sure that I spoke to her. I’m sure he knows that his idea was taken to heart and she did take his advice. I feel honored to have been given the opportunity to be a part of what Shimshon stands for. The truth is we all have the opportunity, donate to CSSY and you too can be a part of this great Chessed.

• great nephew in lakewood

  a heart like avrohom avinu. someone like shimshon goes straight to gan eden; our zayde avrohom pulls him straight in!

• leah

  Shimshon we love you!

• the neuhausers from flatbush

  Dearest Great Uncle Shimshon:

  Words cannot express the deep grief our family is feeling right now. Although it wasn’t easy for you to come out to each of our simchos, you were always there to partake and join in the simcha. and enjoy you did…within two minutes all your great nieces were right by your side..because you were the great uncle that made everyone feel special. we will miss your hugs, your stories, your humor your advice….May you be a Meilitz Yosher for our entire family and daven on our behalf for Shidduchim, health, Parnassa and everything good. We will miss you so very much. Hashem should give your beautiful family Nechama at this trying time.

• Menucha

  Shimshon O”BM was a big tzaddik.
  My parents shidduch was one of the many that Shimshon did.On purim,my mother said to my whole family that Shimshon’s only request was that all the kids of the shidduchim he made should name one of their boys Shimshon.I might be planning a little early because I am only ten years old, but when I get married and have kids G-d willing,I am going to name one of them Shimshon in his memory.
  He always had a smile for everyone, and when we came to NY he made the time to see us,and many other nice things.When I would visit him,he pretended he was just a normal guy, but really he was a hidden tzaddik.
  Anyways,he is looking at us from Gan Eden so we don’t have to worry.
  Menucha

• English lady

  Wow
  I only saw this now..years later.

  I loved this man and his lovely wife . Always kind, always smiling.
  I lived in mrs minklevites house, I was a recent new frummer, not sure if I would survive in Keter Heights. The stocks werewoderfulad I can hear Shimshons voice loud and clear.

  I didn’t want to we’re pan these cz I ated them sothey said, wear a long skirt.lol. Ad I do till this day,here kids later.lol. Love you both darling Shimshons and Martha. Love you love you love you. Ad thank you