Tribute Reb Yosef Shaul Muskal - Pleasant, Warm, ,Chasidic

shalom aleichem this is a tribute to an abusive show moscow who passed away on the summer tedx yard site with gimbal nissen and the tavis nishmasai and for the family and a personal friend i'd like to share the following few tidbits that i had opportunity over the last 25 years to spend time with him in in borough park in our basement malcolm schull jeb joseph told me he was born i believe in the bronx and we grew up in the bronx and he became close to rabbi rottenberg who was the cousin the rebbe or came from the hasidim the hungarian has known as cousin they have to their shul in baro park and elsewhere and he told me this because once i asked him that yosef why do you have payers behind your ears he learned in in bedford and dean la babachi yeshiva he yet from the time of the freedom of the late 1940s he came into the yeshiva and generally le babachik see them that american that that learned in in the barbic in the 40s and 50s but that clown they didn't have we don't wear pairs behind our ears so he told me that it's because he was close to rabbi rottenberg in the bronx and he wore pears behind his ears so he told them to wear pairs behind his ears so till till his last day on earth he had pairs behind his ears and i think it's not just an insignificant point but rather it shows you what the person's about that's something that he got in his youth when he gravitated towards siddhis kite hasidim and that lifestyle this was something that he adapted so although later he went over to the bar that she became a laboratory because it he didn't drop it and i think the message was clear for all of us the bjc was a glazier and he told me that he actually had opportunity to change the mirrors in the red and robinson's house i believe and he also did some work in the mikvah over the years he learned in bedford and dean as a as a young boy i think in like 48 and 49 and he said that uh when the frida via he didn't even know about the levia because no one told the little boys about the levia only after the util krinsky rabbi krinsky who was loaded him zlangie jordan he he a friend of his and he told him about the levia so whether he was at the levi not i don't recall now but i think he said he wasn't i don't remember but he he told me that the the lubavitch in other words no one was pushing the baby to khabad we can't imagine it today but nevertheless he went into the 1950s and with our ebb and he became a full-fledged hosted his son his only boy uh mendel was ashley had been wellington florida and uh thailand he met married one of one of the motto caslina's daughters martial kazaliner happens to be a was a best friend of mishra jaime sarabronski so they they were like soul mates you know soul brothers very very tight from childhood and russia kharkov anyway the beast of moscow the years in borough park there were times he was the life of the party now shul he lost his wife 20 22 years ago he didn't remarry and he kept himself young by hanging out with the young heaven and shoe with everyone everyone was younger than him pretty much and and he was afraid of there was a happy jew he was you know he a smile a joke i remember once talking about shlaine makaroba when i was writing my book about shlaine makaroba the real shlaimer and he knew slayman he used to go to schlema's concerts and then we spoke about that you know i was able to pick up from him personal experiences that he had with people that i you know was writing about from way back and he was a good source of information you know kind to say the way it is and to hear the damage you know the truth he had a a liking to see her getting your feelings i remember the label it must be in our shoe would always kill him he was in cleveland it says that he went to kazakhstan together with everyone else in the 50s 55 56 so the label will always take the safe route and say yo come here and he says he says and label would show him in the you can't see this when you were a buffer so you have to do it now as well and he would always like taunt him about it you know and of course all the good spirit as my books were being written about siddhim and other communities and different things he he really enjoyed reading them and he asked me questions and i could see that there was a a heritage there a regis a feeling for a siddhis guy feeling his one sister his his he married his sister married the marcia levertov another sister married jaimaron cooperman in our shoe you know one hand he could he can give with a smile and you know he was around shows i'll give you an example he was there ever the shul of on 12th avenue 41st street let's hope that there's a resolution and a good iphone for that show so so um he told me that he went to davender although he lived not in that neighborhood he lived i think the 17th and this was 12th and 41st 20 minute walk or so 15 20 minutes because he was a talmud of rabbi ushbal he wanted to support his rebbe rabbi ushbo that's a hergish that's a feeling i could dive in another shoes rabbi simpson was much closer to him no he went through because this was his rosh shiva and he had respect for him and he told me stories from that show you know people walking in our shop as you can hear the k the car keys and other such things you know they weren't uh it was a different time different period my point is that this was an individual with objects who it was smack to talk to it was a pleasure to talk to him business different things came up he had gay business advice he taught me things you know not that i'm in business but but just had to go about certain things he shared his experience and i learned from him i always remember i think his younger leaders was on uh shivasana batambas and he would give the the break the fast giving shiva thomas it wasn't stan break the fest he gave blueberries and he gave different types of foods that you wouldn't expect or the next day he would make eggs it was all done in a very very you know beautiful way of homegrown homegrown environment warm and these are some of my recollections recollections uh with him with him and his staying young so he was like the life of our shule you know even though everyone else was younger but he he was the life of the party because of his persona and his attitude and his frail kite his son-in-laws and friend dr yitzha kuffer married his daughter hani and they're part of our show their children they're married and families of yi his other daughters some live from kensington flatbush it's a wonderful family and the yes of show was and is the backbone and the firebrand of this family so it's before pesach and you'll hopefully see this video halamoid if it's whatever the time is but say an extra cup it'll tell him for us to shove my learn some schneier's is coming up in wyoming