Tribute to Rabbi Hershel Feigelstock

making this uh clip the ilo nishmas a tribute to the personal fatal stuck who passed away today montreal at the age of 98 special was a tiger yid a special hasid a mechanic par excellence and someone who embraced lebavich at a very young age when it was very easy to go to not labor to yeshiva's and institutions and in fact one of his brothers became a roshiva i owe him a personal indebtedness that um he shared with me some very intimate stories some of which can be told some of which can never be told and opened up for me a view of understanding the 1940s and in montreal with the rebel and and the rashad and that whole period and the transition it became clear to me from hearing various things that herschel shared with me but today i want to focus a little bit on him and his life and his his accomplishments i had to be in montreal once to interview a few people and one of the people was repairing the parcel came from vienna and he made his way to montreal and he entered the bavaria shiva in montreal in 1943 and that's where he met the ninth mim of a weinberg rabbit tanaban rabbit kramer and several others and he became the 10th they were like in their 20s 22 23 or so and he was like 20 anyway less than 20 but um and they inspired him when i came to this house there was a site that i never saw every bookshelf every piece every place was full of swarm books and for him and manuscripts and crafts him i'm convinced he had probably 10 to 20 books and swarm in in his house and he took me around and he showed me and he was very humble very very humble but you know i asked him about it so he so it took me a little bit around to show me and it was it was it was amazing it was really really amazing you know the house that is really swarm and the house part is secondary that's what i felt visiting him and it all started that uh about 20 25 years ago he called me various times he heard i put out this in this book and he needs it and he wants it so i sent him a faglesh no problem we'll get it to you but i'm just curious like you know you you need my books like you're reading my you know i knew that he's not an american he said yes yes yes and and i found out that he was a collector of of all and any books and swarm and to him he needed to have every book that i put out at least at that period in the in the uh nine in the 90s the 19 late 90s going into the 2000s the partial also told me that he he he buried my great grandfather my paternal great-grandfather he told me that he remembered how he heard him screaming because he had the makhan in those days there was no cure and and he was in big pain and he says i i remember like today and ultimately when he died my grandfather the great grandfather in the partial actually um buried him and i believe he even took me to the basa carson cemetery in the montreal area where he's buried so that was also very touching i never knew that much has been discussed about his education on on the gem films that they've put out about him but one of the things that he told me was that the montreal tamim the montreal bakarim were had a special the the the rebbe liked them had a special fondness of them and he said that elder khasid would come from time to time to montreal the fabric for them give them a share and talk to them remember these were these were all mostly were people were students who lost their families right they were killed in the holocaust and if shmuel was like a father to them and he said that they would think problems that he and others asked of raphsmule i'm talking about 1943 44 45 46 47 not talking about just 1949 and 1950 i'm talking about seven years so to me this this was very interesting that a radiative shamu in the 43 smelled the the greatness and helicopter the holiness of the rabbi and he advised those montreal to me in bakarim you have an issue discuss it with the ramash so naturally when it came 1950 after the east out because the freedom of was one of the people who led or maybe the main person who led the campaign for uh that ever becoming the river repertoire now he told me that he met the frida kadeba in vienna i believe that he told me that he met him in 1936 now in 36 he was he was um about uh 15 or 16 i believe and uh he and a friend heard he told me that uh the free the lubavitcheraba is here and he hadn't heard about lubavitch before he didn't come from alabama family but you know they said sadik a great person is here go let go go hear him go speak then go see him so they went and this is 36 i remember clearly he told me it was 1936 because i asked him a question whether the frida kadaba's speech was already impaired in 1936 to some degree so he told me that he remembers the voice of the frida kedebe hearing him say a sicha and or a mimer in 19th i think was a mimer and he even told me the myman i don't recall now which mimer was but he remembers the the div and of the mimer and he heard and he says the speech was clear and we can hear him and i was a 60 year old boy i didn't don't even see this i i heard him and so that told me that uh at least then the fleet of kadab is speech was good now it could be that that ever had times like this and times like that that's my understanding because um they say i think in 1933 that's when he began having issues with a speech um but it improved and then there were times it became worse whatever anyway so he already saw the fleet of canada in 36 although he didn't really come to the barbecue 43 in montreal but he he had he was impacted by the fleet of kireba's sid kisses holiness he told me already in 1936. there's much more to say but i'll leave it for another time maybe should help that all the mice and taiven and the swarm that he owned and he bought and he learned and he used and he created a bias molly swarm kip shooter which is a myth of our rebel that have a house full of swarm this is and also encouragement for us to have morse for him i know hey tavis is coming up soon but in addition to hey tavis push it by your and we must never forget those mithsayim and live with them if saying so say everyone should should consider buying another safer looking at another safer writing another safer another book another safer in this course is the shabbos and and 98 years worth of skusim is is a gateway for for ula mashiach and the high end able to help that he passed on on test kiss live the yard site letters on the outside of the middle arab which is shaking his entire family children grandchildren great grandchildren the whole mishpochah the larger fagoshka should have only simchis and the ultimate simha will be the kit with um foreign