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With deep pain sadness and shock we inform you of the terribly tragic passing, of a HaBochur HaTomim Gershon ben R. Mordechai Leib A”H Gorodetsky, at the age of 34, earlier this morning when he was struck by a train in the Kingston Avenue Subway station.

The Levaya will take place Today, Thursday, and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chapel at around 2:00pm and will be passing by 770 at around 2:30pm

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

TRAGEDY: Boruch Dayan Haemes – HaBochur Gershy Gorodetsky OBM

With deep pain sadness and shock we inform you of the terribly tragic passing, of a HaBochur HaTomim Gershon ben R. Mordechai Leib A”H Gorodetsky, at the age of 34, earlier this morning when he was struck by a train in the Kingston Avenue Subway station.

The Levaya will take place Today, Thursday, and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chapel at around 2:00pm and will be passing by 770 at around 2:30pm

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

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21 Comments

  • Psy.D.

    we must let everyone know that help is available to those that are in need. they do not need to get lost in the shuffle and just have their families cover-up and "pretend" that their normal for whatever reason.

    Being on medication is not enough. They need to also be seen by therapists or counsellors.

    AD MOSAI????

  • out-of-towner

    ????

    ANOTHER BOCHUR KILLED BY A TRAIN???

    that’s crazy!

    AD MOSAI! ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

  • Rubie Minkowitz

    To all those who knew Gershy,
    Please take a moment out of your day to go to his levayah

    To his Mother & Brother
    Hamokom Yenchem eschem Bsoch avalei tzion veyurshalim

  • Michoel Friend

    b’h

    Anyone interested in speaking with a Crown Heights psychologist about their own feelings or how to help a friend, relative or talmid may call 347-513-5130 to reach Dr. Michoel Friend. The consultation is free of charge.

  • too much

    We need divine intervention to help us.
    We need to daven for it, for all of us.
    It isn’t you alone and me alone, it’s us. Hashem, please, we need you to send Mashiach.

  • Action Needed NOW

    The problem is that nobody knows or cares about these people. Crown Heights needs to set things in place to HELP these and many others. Writing a sefer is nice, but the CH community council must stand up and take action TODAY.

    For example: There should be regular events and training courses available for bochurim in crown heights – for starters….

  • It could happen to someone you know

    If you have a friend who is going through a hard time, don’t expect that someone else or his parents are taking care of it.

    You might be the only one who knows or can deal with it.

    If you suspect that someone is in a difficult situation, make it YOUR responsibility to ensure that he gets the support, friendship and help he needs.

    You could save his life.

  • say the truth

    The charedi Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights has been grieving as of late after two deaths rocked the close-knit community. Today, the mostly Chaba”d community learned of the passing of Gershon Gorodetsky, age 34, who died after being struck by the #3 train at the Kingston Avenue station. Only a week and half had passed since the passing of Noach Tzfasman, age 24, who was also struck by a train at the same subway station.

    Noach Tzfasman’s death was proven later to be a suicide. On the street, people are already saying the same thing about today’s niftar.

    In January, a frum 12th grader committed suicide while on winter break in Miami. Orthodox attorney Moshe Kanovsky plummeted to his death from the Empire State building in April. MentalBlog has a short list from May listing a few then-recent Lubavitcher suicides. Sarah Adelman jumped to her death on July 24, distraught over a recent breakup.

    The suicide rate in the Orthodox world seems to be on the rise; it seems that suicide in the Orthodox community is becoming more of a phenomenon. CrownHeights.info is offering information on frum counseling services for the bereaved and for those impacted by the suicides, but I feel as if there is a huge pink elephant in the room that no one is talking about.

    Sarah Adelman’s suicide was followed by a discussion of the validity of the stigma surronding unmarried women in the Orthodox community, as well as critical analysis of the value placed on ‘coupledom’ in the Orthodox world — and this is the most laudatory upshot of all of these tragedies. Crown Heights, and by extension all religious communities, should have the same reflex: immediately turning the lens inward and asking “how can we prevent this from happening?” One commenter on CrownHeights.Info noted that some people have committed suicide because of debt to yeshivos. Societal norms are also changing and tightening. Regardless of the precise reason, this must be a cause for introspection — and it will truly be lamentable if more young adults have to die before the Jewish Observer article comes out and sends the entire Brooklyn into a tizzy screaming “Gevalt! What’s gonna be?”

    How were these bochurim perceived by their community? What were their social interactions like, their family lives? Was Gershon, for instance, driven crazy by societal stigma and rumors and family and friends wondering “why he was still a bochur” at 34? Was the high school student “selected” out of yeshiva? Surely, there is always an acute “moment of insanity” immediately preceding any suicide attempt. But are all these suicides driven by ongoing mental illness? And if they were all chronically mentally ill, can their suicide be totally dismissed by saying, “oh, he was depressed for a while anyway”?

    In this time before Yom Kippur, a time when G-d says, as we learn from the Mishnah, that He will not listen to our prayers for forgiveness until we ask our fellow humans for forgiveness, this truly is the only appropriate Jewish reaction. As Deuteronomy 21 teaches us, the Torah prescribesthe egla arufa-ritual for a murder with an unknown perpetrator, a ritual which shows that our communities truly are interconnected, that an entire community can be said to have “shed the blood” of even one of its residents by omission, if not by commission.

    We can not shed any more blood. A truly interconnected community does not let its suicide rate skyrocket without a fight. It behooves each of us to examine our own communities and do our utmost to counteract — in our own spheres of influence — that which drives people to these breaking points. And it is my hope that lives are saved as a result.

  • aryeh vojdany

    Boruch dayan haemes gershy…he was my cuzin and i am deeply shocked!!!! to mina and yankee Hamokom Yenchem eschem Bsoch avalei tzion veyurshalim

  • You will be missed Gershy...very much

    I am just so shocked. I am happy that some people on here are brave to write what needs to be talked about. I knew Gershy many years ago and as of last week I tried and ask a common friend about him just b/c i thought of him and missed him and wanted to know how is. I am so sad to learn about this i wish i could have helped him with whatever he was going through and i will truly miss him, he was a brilliant young man and very unique. Boruch dayn haemes…and to his family i wish i could be there i wish i lived in NY still so that i can be there for you…Hamokom Yenchem eschem Bsoch avalei tzion veyerushlim.

  • Esther Hecht

    Gershy I’m going to truly miss you! Every yom tov, especially erev yom kippur, I’ll be looking for you. We are going to remember you only for the good and that sunny smile and infectious laugh. We’re davening for your neshama!
    To the family – Hamakom yenachem eschem besoch shar avlei tzion veyerushalayim.

  • Zev Engel

    TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE ALLREADY DECIDED WHAT HAPPENED WITHOUT TRULY, HONESTLY KNOWING ALL THE FACTS AND, TO ALL OF YOU WHO THINK THEY KNEW GERSHY GORODETSKY AND, TO YOU WHO DECIDED THAT HE WAS ON MEDICATION AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY TO EVERYONE WHO DECIDED WITHOUT ANY PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT GERSHY JUMPED IN FRONT OF THE TRAIN I SAY THE FOLLOWING.

    I WAS A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS FOR MANY MANY YEARS AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS THE TIME FOR EVERYONE IN AND OUT OF CROWN HEIGHTS TO STOP TALKING JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT AND STOP POSTING YOUR COMMENTS JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT AND HAVE RESPECT FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIVES.

    AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMEMBER HE HAS FAMILY THAT WERE VERY DARE TO HIM SO I ASK YOU, I PLEAD WITH ALL OF YOU, I BEG YOU ON HANDS AND KNEES DO NOT TALK JUST BECAUSE AND, DONT JUST SAY WOW WHILE YOU READ THIS AND FORGET ABOUT THIS IN A MONTH OR TWO OR THREE OR, ONE YEAR OR TWO OR THREE OR TEN YEARS.

    IF THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO STOP ALL THIS TALKING AND WRITING JUST TO MAKE YOURSELVES FEEL BETTER, WHEN IS??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • !!!!!!!!

    Att. to the coment “THE TRUTH”

    it is quite obvious that things you state is very far from the Truth!!!!

    just the silly factt that you reffered to that webisite ‘*****’ shows where you are coming from.
    that website is run by a crazy guy who despises lubavitch, writes bad and turns peope off from lubavitch, he makes up his own opinion, and writes rumours and disgusting things and false loshan horah about people in our own frum community, and lubavitch itself.

    to all those who bh never visited that awful website….i;m telling you it’s NOT worth it!
    So you may stop spreading rumours about people that their neshomah is now in the world of Truth!!!!

    may we be zoche to see the revelation of moshiach now1!!!

  • R. Doberman

    To all of you who "Want" Moshiach…

    To all of you who "Know" the facts, its Loshon Hora

    To all of you who "do not", it’s Motzie Shemra and Loshon Hora…

    You all ask, Ad Mosi? Ad Mosi?! When will you all stop commiting these sins?? Ad Mosi??

    Lets take Mr.Zev’s advice…

  • Zev Engel

    TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE ALLREADY DECIDED WHAT HAPPENED WITHOUT TRULY, HONESTLY KNOWING ALL THE FACTS AND, TO ALL OF YOU WHO THINK THEY KNEW GERSHY GORODETSKY AND, TO YOU WHO DECIDED THAT HE WAS ON MEDICATION AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY TO EVERYONE WHO DECIDED WITHOUT ANY PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT GERSHY JUMPED IN FRONT OF THE TRAIN I SAY THE FOLLOWING.

    I WAS A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS FOR MANY MANY YEARS AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS THE TIME FOR EVERYONE IN AND OUT OF CROWN HEIGHTS TO STOP TALKING JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT AND STOP POSTING YOUR COMMENTS JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT AND HAVE RESPECT FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIVES.

    AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMEMBER HE HAS FAMILY THAT WERE VERY DEAR TO HIM SO I ASK YOU, I PLEAD WITH ALL OF YOU, I BEG YOU ON HANDS AND KNEES DO NOT TALK JUST BECAUSE AND, DONT JUST SAY WOW WHILE YOU READ THIS AND FORGET ABOUT THIS IN A MONTH OR TWO OR THREE OR, ONE YEAR OR TWO OR THREE OR TEN YEARS.

    IF THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO STOP ALL THIS TALKING AND WRITING JUST TO MAKE YOURSELVES FEEL BETTER, WHEN IS??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • as

    B”H
    They need to get therapists, or psychologists on Yeshivah premisis, with annonomys service…im sure the students would find it useful. Sometimes more personal help is needed. I hope he is enjoying the best fruits of Gan Eden.
    Baruch Dayan Haemes

    Moshiach Now!!