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• meyer clapman

  rabbi zalman chanin is center left (before i said right)

• vivi

  wow!!!!!!!!!!!

  he got big mitzvot!!!!!!!!

• Shmuli

  It looks like sometime in the mid. Mem’s – 1980’s

• 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

• rac

  he’s helped countless people, who’s going to take over his job now???

• talmid of oheli torah 73----76

  “ S S WROTE ”
  you said it all … we will all miss him .i can add more to what you wrote
  he was a leggen of chabad ..
  “ shimshon come back with moshiac
  today ”

• TO S.S

  Shimshon replied but we do know the aibershter