BDE: Dr. Arik Pudel, OBM

With great sadness we report the untimely passing of Dr. Arik Pudel OBM, a chossid born in Samarkand who lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Arik was born in Samarkand during the Soviet Communist regime and learnt Torah and Chasidus during the time when it was forbidden with the risk of lifetime imprisonment or death. Many of the underground Shabbos Mevorchim Minyonim and Fabrangens were held in the Pudel home in Samarkand.

Arik’s father ר’ מנחם מענדל ע”ה was a close friend of the Chosid Reb Dovid Ramener (Okunov) הי”ד.

Arik later moved to Eretz Yisroel and then to America, where he settled in Flatbush.

Arik always reminisced about the Chasidim in Samarkand and how it was one beautiful family. Arik frequently came to Farbreng with his fellow Chasidim in Crown Heights, some of whom were like close family to him. His radiant smile and warm embrace carried the warmth of the Chasidim of Samarkand.

He is survived by יבלח”ט his wife Ilana, his daughters Miriam and Nechama and his son Yosef Yitzchak. He is also survived by יבלח”ט his mother Ida and brother Ahron Dovid.

He will be sorely missed by all.

The Levaya will pass by 770 tomorrow, Friday יט חשון at 10:30am on its way to Old Montefiore Cemetery.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes