RIP/BDE Master Thread

[Dan]

Bob Uecker

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/sports/bob-uecker-dead.html
https://archive.is/ZsYLZ

[mevinyavin]

Harav Nochum Stilerman, zatzal 
("The Man with the Plan", father of the authors of Zera Shmuel and Dor Hamilaktim, among other choshuveh talmidei chachomim and rabbonim, and a personal friend -though probably everyone thinks that)

Author of this: https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/3728424/jewish/The-Rebbes-Favorite-Prayer.htm
https://mishpacha.com/the-man-with-the-plan/

[mevinyavin]

Harav Nochum Stilerman, zatzal 
("The Man with the Plan", father of the authors of Zera Shmuel and Dor Hamilaktim, among other choshuveh talmidei chachomim and rabbonim, and a personal friend -though probably everyone thinks that)

Author of this: https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/3728424/jewish/The-Rebbes-Favorite-Prayer.htm
https://mishpacha.com/the-man-with-the-plan/

If anyone recalls that old Olameinu comic about the grocery store owner who allowed another competing store to open, it was about his father - and he was the kid in the story who got sent with supplies to the other store.

Then, one day – it was in 1953 or 1954, as I recall – a Lubavitcher named Yankel Lipsker came to my father and said he wanted to open another grocery store in the neighborhood, just one block away from ours. My father said to him, “There isn’t enough business for one family, how can there be for two? Besides this, the wholesale distributors of kosher products won’t deliver to you, since they are already delivering to me.”

But Lipsker pleaded, “I need to make a living.” So my father said, “Let’s go to the Rebbe; whatever he says, I will do.”

They went to the Rebbe, who heard both my father’s and Lipsker’s arguments. And then he said, “Under ordinary circumstances, Mr. Stilerman is correct. The two of you can’t both make it. But I assure you that the Almighty will provide a livelihood for both of you.”

My father heard the Rebbe and, because he totally trusted the Rebbe, he said okay. Not only did he allow Lipsker to open a competing grocery store, but he loaned him the money to do so!

Even more, my father actively helped him to succeed. If Lipsker ran out of a product, my father would send it over from his own inventory. I remember it well, as I was the one who would deliver the items to Lipsker. It seemed to me that this was a ridiculous arrangement and yet, somehow, they both made a living, as the Rebbe promised they would.

[TimT]

Rav Moshe Zoberman Z”L
Rav Yehuda Oelbaum Z”L

[yelped]

Rav Moshe Zoberman Z”L
Rav Yehuda Oelbaum Z”L

BDE.

[TimT]

Chazzan Bentzion Miller Z”L

[yelped]

Chazzan Bentzion Miller Z”L

BDE. A fixture in the world of Chazanus.

[YitzyS]

Chazzan Bentzion Miller Z”L

BD"E.

Nice article and some nice clips of him here: https://matzav.com/chazzan-benzion-miller-zl/

When I was younger, I had a period in my life when I was into Chazzanus, and I would sometimes walk to Beth El on Shabbos morning to hear him. It was something really special.

He was famous for knowing the nusach perfectly. I remember one Shabbos Rosh Chodesh, Chazzan Helfgot came to hear him (I think in order to hear the nusach of Atta Yotzarta). I remember that he tried to stay inconspicuous, keeping his head down, but people started noticing him and pointing him out to others. And then the Rov blew his cover during the speech, "I'd like to welcome a special guest we have in the audience today..."

Good old times!

[TimT]

When I was younger, I had a period in my life when I was into Chazzanus, and I would sometimes walk to Beth El on Shabbos morning to hear him. It was something really special.

When I was younger I was so not into chazzanus. One time I walked in there during Yomim Noraim. Between him and the choir & the sound the room gives off, I sat there entranced. Totally lost track of time. It was beautiful.

[Essen est zich]

https://anash.org/rabbi-levi-wolosow-43-ah/
https://collive.com/rabbi-levi-wolosow-43-obm/

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Wolosow, a shliach who directed adult education at Chabad of Manalapan, New Jersey, passed away suddenly on Monday during a trip to the Pocono Mountains.

Heartbreaking.

https://raisethon.com/leviwolosow

[YitzyS]

https://anash.org/rabbi-levi-wolosow-43-ah/
https://collive.com/rabbi-levi-wolosow-43-obm/

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Wolosow, a shliach who directed adult education at Chabad of Manalapan, New Jersey, passed away suddenly on Monday during a trip to the Pocono Mountains.

Heartbreaking.

https://matzav.com/rabbi-levi-wolosow-zl/

[NTorch]

Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas H'YD

https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/world-news/hamas-says-kfir-bibas-and-ariel-2-and-5-and-their-mom-are-dead-and-their-bodies-will-be-sent-back-to-israel-this-week/

[TzviR]

Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas H'YD

https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/world-news/hamas-says-kfir-bibas-and-ariel-2-and-5-and-their-mom-are-dead-and-their-bodies-will-be-sent-back-to-israel-this-week/

 

[yfr bachur]

Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas H'YD

https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/world-news/hamas-says-kfir-bibas-and-ariel-2-and-5-and-their-mom-are-dead-and-their-bodies-will-be-sent-back-to-israel-this-week/

BD"E.
Well... we all already sort of knew this for a while already, at the very least since Hamas released men instead of women and children in this phase.
We were just hoping against hope that Hamas was just playing a cruel psychological game and would release them alive at the end of this phase... (which, agav, they still might)

[frenchfries]

BD"E.
Well... we all already sort of knew this for a while already, at the very least since Hamas released men instead of women and children in this phase.
We were just hoping against hope that Hamas was just playing a cruel psychological game and would release them alive at the end of this phase... (which, agav, they still might)

This is what I'm holding on to 

[CountValentine]

Gene Hackman and Wife

[Dawie]

Gene Hackman and Wife

and dog

[ExGingi]

BDH

בהלם ובצער עמוק התבשרנו על פטירתו בש"ק של ראש הישיבה עטרת ראשינו כאב לנו הגאון החסיד *הרב יוסף יצחק ווילשאנסקי ע"ה* משלוחי הרבי מלך המשיח לאה"ק וראש ישיבות חח"ל צפת, וסניפיה בחיפה ונוף הגליל

מיטתו של ראש הישיבה תגיע הלילה לקראת חצות לזאל הישיבה הגדול ברח` ירושלים 17 צפת. *בוגרים ואנ"ש המעוניינים, ניתן להגיע לאמירת תהילים בישיבה עד 9:00 בבוקר*

*ההלוויה תצא מחר יום ראשון בשעה 12:00 מבית הכנסת `היכל לוי יצחק` בקרית חב"ד בצפת ותעבור בהיכל הישיבה בסביבות 12:30 בדרכה לבית העלמין בצפת.*

(10 days short of his older brother's first yahrzeit - I believe they were חברותא when they were learning in 770).

https://chabad.info/bdh/1187847/

[Dawie]

Fishy's Shvigger
 

[jj1000]

Fishy's Shvigger
 

Baruch Dayan Emes.