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Tribute to Rabbi Yehuda (Leibish) Greenbaum
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this is a
tribute to a good friend of mine
rabbi yehuda labish
greenbaum oliver schollin
took him from us this past monday
and i want to share
a few feelings a few stories
it was a very special yid
most of chabad probably never heard of
him
he was bella kaylin quiet to himself
not obtrusive but yet
he was somakusha to the rebbe
and to labach that it was most special
so yehuda grew up here in borough park
just as i did
although older than me about by uh
four years or so his younger brother you
see was a classmate of mine
but i you know got to know yehuda
and when he moved to my to north miami
from kwatapuak energies row
i spent the shabbos with him i visited
his father
that mendel known as mendel de saldat
the rebbe called mendel
his father the mendel de saldat because
mendel the soldier because
he was a soldier i believe in the korean
war and there are many stories
of miracles and directions from the
rabbi
that's worth talking about another time
but tonight
that right now we're focusing about
yehuda
yehuda was
a kanoi for the abstract
but pinchas
he lived the narrative
and he was proud of living
in an area which was surrounded by
enemies yamashima and he was proud to
wear his gun
and it was proud to kill an arab if he
needed to
now why am i telling you this
because he loved that and he loved
amy siro and yet he had a full
beard not touched and not shorn and not
trimmed
and he wore a black hat and he wore a
jacket he was a husset
par excellence from
the yeshiva from the community
and together with the siddhis kite and
his avoidance hashem
which was very quiet and private
he was also a zealot for eritrea
when i say quiet and private in this
talking to him once
he said he's gone through tanakh and he
learns tanakh
how many of us learn seriously tanakh
very few
when i was at his house the hospitality
was special he took care of me like his
own
son or daughter
yehuda labish greenbell
a dear friend we don't know why babish
took him at
age 63. what we do know is what
we need to do for his the summer
as we continue
the living bring
the those that have passed on to life
how do you bring him to life you bring
him to life
by doing what he enjoyed doing
what he wanted to do what he did
and that is his abbas hashem
his abbas israel and his other to the
rebel
you see he had his castros
not through davening barriches dabbling
for hours
or intellectualizing siddhis or spending
hours on a taste for sangamura
he learned to skit us i saw how he
learned his gritas
he was more of a pashtus
but in that pastus in that simplicity
he was totally there
my father told me that once
yehuda told my father and he said don't
tell this to anyone
he said the rabbit gave me a bracha to
be a plumber
and he says whenever i do plumbing and
whatever i do with plumbing
i'm a sliach
whenever i touch plumbing becomes gold
and he believed wholeheartedly because
the rabbit gave him
that simplicity is most unique
he told me other things that
show his pastors
he told me a story that happened with
his father
someone went into this and the rabbit
told them
to do plumbing i'm sorry that ever told
them to ask
mendel greenbaum what to do the person
asked that ever
for advice and a brachavopanosa that
ever said go to mendel greenbaum and ask
him
he was surprised he went to mendel
greenbelt his father
their mendel mendel de saldat and mendel
said
open up a shoe store get involved in the
shoe business because
everyone needs shoes he looked at mendel
like he fell off
he fell from the sky what are you
talking about
i don't know the i know the plumbing
business i know but i don't know the uh
you know i don't know this business he
didn't listen
and the rest of his life he had
hardships
he would have told me this story and he
said when the rabbit says something
you better be ready to listen if you
don't listen
don't ask because if you ask you don't
listen
it's not going to be good and he said it
would apostles he didn't said it with
you know
being mean and looking to hurt somebody
just said about
pastors so his discussions his
connectedness
to the rebel was 100
and more
he came back to america
for various reasons but he told me that
his dream
is to go back to all he told me that
after all his children will marry him
it's hashem and things will settle down
he hopes to return to its akaidesh
terencia
he had such love attitude tremendous
his keyboard ava aimed for his father i
saw of my own eyes
his father was getting older and had a
uh a little stroke and he made for his
father a place in his house
well actually they bought a house for
his father
and next to him and he checked in on him
and he and he brought him the food and
he helped him out
and then he made a minion a shabbos
minion for his father in the house
this was this is in the community of
rabbi yossi marlow
and the condition was and
and yehuda lived up to it he's not he's
not into making mignon
when there's a half a block down there's
alibaba joshua
but because his father couldn't walk so
he made a minion for him never
milo agreed and
he did it for him and i would sit with
his father
and talk to his father and you that was
always on top of him
on top of you know taking care of him so
the keyboard of the aim was
was most special
uh was a very hard worker
yeah there was a very hard worker
if he was having if he was not having
that sloga
success in one type of work he right
away tried another type of work
he didn't sit back with his hands folded
and say
have have have have halitani no feed me
come on he got up and he walked the
pavement
and he did what he needed to do to bring
parnosa home
this family so
as we go through the week of shiva
and sasha mashiach will come asap so
that we won't have to finish the week of
shiva
this tribute is just a little bit
about a very special year the very
special the babies
that the babbage
should know about and think about
that we have hasidim
and we have eden that are unassuming
they're not in the fanfare not in the
limelight
and yet they are completely
dedicated takadesh boroku to the
rabbeim and
i i wish and hope
and ask that the family
the children and grandchildren and some
great grandchildren
should know this about
their father and grandfather zeda
and to emulate his ways
to live in as a full hostage
today
saying they're
doing this to help other yidan
quietly he did a lot of hesit that no
one knows about
he took in people he fed them they gave
their money
quietly neighbors to help
that the summer
should be a good to better for everyone
especially his family
and his dear wife who i
met when i stayed with that shabbos
should only have simchas and together
to the
he and everyone else will rise from the
earth
and be reunited with his family
with clown sedim and with claudius
amen the amen