Tribute to Rabbi Yehuda (Leibish) Greenbaum

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