Learned in Novardik, Brought to Chabad by Rabbi Hodakov, Saw Reb Itche der Masmid, Loved by all

this is a tribute toal yudkin who passed away a week or so ago Zalman was a yid was born or raised and raised I believe in Ria and as a young boy he learned in the yes that radov learned in as well under the guidance of r baranik r baranik was a talid of the n in fact it was rakov who brought rabman yutkin to the Yeshiva and ultimately had a big impact on him later becoming Alman told me I knew him from CR Heights he would DAV at sh would tell me that he remembers seeing the now many of you in m and in Williamsburg and Monroe not know ofk and held him as Aikman was a he was a a that was in a servant of God he was very very he had that R yakish like FR kite religiosity and I remember hearing him make an appeal in different shoes here in B park for he he would raise money for the kabad Yesa for Bim inas kabad I believe orad and when he starts speaking about Russian jewelry he started to cry and and speak with such heartfelt emotions about the difficulty that they went through you felt as though you're living through the time in Russia and the 20s and 30s on the and how we're fighting for survival for abalan that was the reality and he conveyed this in his public appeals and also privately with people and that's one of the reasons why so many people of all kinds vision sber B beler Carina BR the biters everyone gave him money for the for the cause because they found a genuine man he was 99 when he passed on tremendous he was blessed with long life and good years and I remember when the great Torah genius inides would teach shabas morning or at other times during the week between gari taught he would sit there like we say atat you know what atat means so behaved listening and then he would interject once in a while and ab knew that you know in in what I what I what I observed there like there's this Genius of that wasn't his field you know he didn't get a chance to during all the years much you know I'm sure he knew the basics but compared to it was nothing and and yet RAB is listened to him and was patient and then he would you know he would tell him no you're not learning right the shot the meeting or you are and then he would you know but I saw you know here is this person who's quite older than is fredman and who lived through you know the trenches you know it's one thing to to know a lot and be very cidic and and be a Riva there another thing to live in the trenches down and dirty to get get dirty meaning from all the narish the nonsense around you and they to the point where they want to kill you this this isn't a game andab yutkin live that way and at this time I also want to say that the the of his grandson I believe Isel yutkin who was murdered in in Gaza just this week and the Leva the funeral was in alah I understand that the his father came to crit to sit sh for Zalman and it was towards the end of Shiva that he heard that his son was murdered and he returned to ER very tragic but yet we realize that there's some kind of Soul connection over here within the Shiva or close to the Shiva his Reb zalman's grandson passed on this isn't just um you know by chance what that means I don't know but what I do know is that just keep your ears open let's go back to abalan so when AB Zalman would come into to to M and I heard this from people who they drove him around he didn't drive they took him around they slept with him to 12: 1 in the morning to different homes to raise money and I and I asked them not liches why you doing this they said because there's only one rebman one type of person of this nature and of this commitment bringing the old to the new and and letting us feel and see and observe this reality so for the benefit of his all that are Li in dust rise through the coming of msia the resurrection of dead the dead of very speedily with the rebuilding of the Holy Temple the the city of Jerusalem amen amen