Tribute Rabbi Shimon Raichik - Rav of Anash in LA - Chasidic Jew - Bituldiker Yid

the love of the congregation lady yitzchuk in la brea in los angeles but i want to reflect for a few moments on my relationship with him way back in the early 80s when i was sent by the rabbi as an older brother from morristown to the i also want to say that uh the family my brother-in-law's of shalom raichu shimon's younger brother and sherman's wife rabbits in the hannah liberic and all the other raichik uh brothers children and to the extended los angeles the babachir community are nash the night chicks are a mainstay have been are and will be til mashiach's coming and after mashiach's coming of that community the father of was sent by as his and then with the rebels encouragement and hundreds of letters and he traveled the world on behalf of americas and the yeshiva and there's so much to say about him a book has been written i made a dvd about him he was stevie's dvd is called the shaddaar he was the shadow of the rabbit and uh shimon who passed away a huff kislyaf which is associated of course with uterus kiss live very appropriate day if someone is passing on such a day represents siddhas chabad in all of its glory and all of its glory is davening not only in learning citizen understanding this but davening and then the raichik family starting with shmuel david and his children and also the new dove his son is who it was announced that he'll take over his father's position both in the rabonus of the school and on the vada abundance of los angeles and i know the this young man as a tiger young and he does he helps people he's kind and sweet and very learned so the choice was an excellent choice and of course there was a choice that the father of shimon left i might understand because he left the instructions that he wants that the yerusha should go to his son to be the love and rabbi said you need to be makayam to fulfill the wishes of the deceased in this case the son becoming thereof so we wish him congratulations and ali to ascend um the crown and seat of rabbonus and in the city to bring the the babachik sydney throughout los angeles and all of california to more connection taco despoticle so back in 18 1981 is when i was introduced to the shimon i mean i saw him in 770s he's uh several years older than me he was an older buffer when i was like 17 18 you know going as a teenager going into morristown and coming from and to 770 and seeing him and i remember seeing him speaking through you and i even remember once i think walking back from a fabrega after a fabregan trip with rabbi oil to the oil's house and if shimon raichik was walking along and talking i have that that memory walking on the streets of kingston avenue he was also ashley in the 1970s in melbourne australia to the yeshiva goddard and uh would always speak about his impressions and later when i married into the family of the sara bronski's and absalmon and abkhai and my share you know were mainstays of that yeshiva and that entire laboratory community there so we shared in common things to discuss about that as well but in 1981 i really got to know him personally and this this is in the yeshiva shabbos shabbos a time to tadavan so i'm connecting this this this clip and the tribute to what i saw in him in his avedas at hashem and there's many things you could talk about i'm sure people will write about and talk about and everyone has their nuance so this is what uh you know this is what captured me and not a big deal but um just sharing and talking and reminiscing my lifting gun so when you're you're shivering and you're diving slow and you're trying to connect and you're trying to reflect uh whatever you know the the time that the minion finishes and you're not finished yet then you continue dabbing and then you come down you want you come out to eat something sometimes there's no food left or the food is cold whatever the case so if shimmer made a point to tell me beforehand he was in the yeshiva at the time he had mendel lapakovsky over or hired brother he has um to teach us and to help us with shilos and then in the murder in or whatever so we became close to both of them again we knew them both as older bakrim but now it was a different setting so it was the group of 10 of us who came from morristown and uh who were our kind of direct uh superiors under abhishek was busy besides this year he was busy with com you know with raising funds for the yeshiva and administration and all kinds of things it was rip shimmer raichik and mental opkowski so the shimon was the one who would come over to me and say i want you to come to my house whenever you finish davening i want you to come to my house and and this was a beautiful thing no one else did it so i didn't have to rush my davenink and i could take my time and i could be in shul for as many hours as i wanted and i knew that there was always a place that i could go to to have a var merci the shabbos meal and here i must say with with tremendous gratitude and correspond to his wife uh rabbits and chandelier she she is a a schtick kite i mean i was blown away she was like a baker in yeshiva with her allegation with her feelings and attitudes von kaite and to the son the yacht the oldest son yussi who would sit on my on my lap and they said and i would sing and alibaba would tell me again i want my son to hear it so uh today in in boynton beach florida though and i have powerful memories of those shot bosses in in in shipments house you know he wasn't a big talker the right chicks um well you know certain things you know many times you couldn't hear a word of him when he had to speak up to get it but otherwise you know smart people don't talk much you know they they leave it to others to the fools was that way as well you know he didn't when he had a good uh but that was the song when he had when he had what to say he wanted to say he said it and as i love he he he he did that i'm sure but my experience was you know that i remember the shabbos table he said but he really wanted i should you know kind of get the the place moving and singing and then it was a very very humbling experience that he was a bottle of decade he was a humble person it was and that's what 41 years ago 81 82 40 years ago those years that we were in los angeles and that's my personal memories later on you know became the love and i was elsewhere and i married and you know has grown and but heart and finally finally i checked and verified that he had shimbush in in in diana's she was apprenticeship from rabzam shematwarkan and i heard and verified also with the hara wasn't it the balchez the great taylor scholar and positive renewal mammoth sort of shimon that biscuits all the mice and tell them and then also i remind myself now he was into he was a chaplain on a chapter he was uh yeah the chaplaincy program los angeles his father used to do it with a rabb rabbi ryback i don't even know if he was in uh froome but he was from but they had and we would send this to the prisons chanukah time purim and if shema took that over i believe and he was very much into it and one last thing i remind myself now that uh at some point i wanted to show our fabregas what does this how do you show people today you have you have all the recordings but in those days it wasn't that way so i went to he he had he was ahead he was on a cable television program he had he taught tighter see this tighter so i connected to the shim and then i asked if i could show off a bring on he said sure and i brought him and myself and one other person and we pushed it made like a real fabrega in the studio we had some on the table and the mozainus and uh we acted out of habrengan and i recorded it and i have it until today and i could tell you that what didn't give me a hard time why when who what you want to show the people should learn from how it looks how it feels on this on the screen i'm there and he himself slept out and he came and we did it together should have comfort and he's able to see him pack with us together with the rebbe and all everyone else head of shabbos