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• friend

  what about his sister sara shemtov where is she sitting shiva

• eliezer

  how else can we all support the familly, & his orginization?

• Long Beach Community

  I remember when Shimson used to come to Long beach, Ca. We are really doing to miss him.

• a crown hieghtser on the west coast

  Is Chanie going to be in Long beach for shiva at all?

• in response to friend

  sara is sitting with martha and the rest of them in shimshons house

• 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!

• mendi

  In response to eliezer you can send your donations to the stock’s house

• Devorahkroll

  Dearest Stocks all..
  There are no words to say, just as there is no one who will fill the void that Shimshon has left. Larger than life, he was warmer, more caring and compassionate and full of love for people than most! All the years I have known him, without fail, I was always greated by name with a smile and a question of how are you that few take the time to listen for the answer. CSSVYT predates Tomchei Shabbos, predates Ten Yad, and so many other giving organizations, that when there was a need your father/husband was the FIRST to rush in to fill it.
  Who can fill his shoes? We don’t need to ask, only pray that it will not be necessary as Moshiach MUST come immediately and we should all be zoche to see Shimshon again soon with his smiles and his box, urging us to give of ourselves and be a part of something wonderful.
  Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
  Devorah Kroll
  May you only know health, simchas and nachas from children and grandchildren!
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