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Mochai Schapiro, 35, OBM

R' Mordechai Schapiro, a young Crown Heights resident and father of four, passed away Monday. Full Story

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It's amazing
July 3, 2011 12:05 pm

Look how many connections this man had
Scrolling through the comments, you see “a friend” “a classmate” “someone he helped” “a cousin” “a community” “a camper”
Imagine… every Jewish person has so many connections, people and lives they touched…. imagine.
We are all united!

BORUCH DAYAN HAEMES
July 3, 2011 10:03 am

please hashem give kochos to this family!!!!!
where can i give money to help?

BORUCH DAYAN HAEMES
July 1, 2011 3:18 pm

OY HASHEM!!!!!!
SEND MOSHIACH!!!!!!!!!
HOW CAN I DONATE MONEY TO HELP THE FAMILY? IS THERE A FUND? PLEASE POST INFORMATION.

BDE
June 30, 2011 1:31 am

Hashem!!! Have rachmanus!!!!! Give kochos to this family to go on!!!!!!
Ad mosai!!!!!!!!!

Shliach far away
June 29, 2011 8:58 pm

Moshiach NOW!

Help
June 29, 2011 8:51 pm

HOW TO HELP
Ive previously given to The Keren Levi Yizchok Schapiro Family Fund (at 768 Montgomery St. Brooklyn NY 11213)
I urge everyone to join me!

BDE
June 29, 2011 2:34 pm

May HAshem send Moshiach now!

Shoshanna Silcove
June 29, 2011 4:25 am

Ad Mosai!

we demand
June 29, 2011 2:43 am

HASHEM should bring all the jewish neshamos back with moshiach amen banai basar.

Oy Hashem!!!!!!
June 29, 2011 12:14 am

PUT AN END TO THIS GOLUS!!!!!!
MOCHAI WE’LL MISS YOU FOREVER!!!!!!
TECHIYAS HAMAISIM- AD MOSAI??????

Even in California...
June 29, 2011 12:03 am

… we are touched by the loss and are grateful to have known someone of such strength and spirit. The Shapiro and Zarchi families are in our thoughts and prayers.

We demand
June 28, 2011 11:10 pm

Moshiach right now.

class mate
June 28, 2011 11:06 pm

he always had a smile .coming from out of town from shluchos into his class sometime I felt alone he friendly matter made me feel that chasidim really care he always had something pleasant to say to me. it reminded me off back home where I was special and important it made a different to me then and still does that he was happy and made his friend
also feel that way
he will be miss

To Leah and the entire zarchi and Shapiro families
June 28, 2011 7:44 pm

May Hashem comfort you and bring you only simchas from now on. May moshiach come now and reunite you all with your beloved husband, son, son in law . a special man!! Leah my thoughts are with you! Remembering the special times we shared in beis Rivka, camp emunah teen camp many years ago, you are a very special person and Hashem should give you koach to go on and continue to raise your beautiful family. Hamakom yenachem eschem, from your friends in Sydney Australia

eli salek
June 28, 2011 5:47 pm

baruch dayan haemes

Dear Leah
June 28, 2011 4:40 pm

Hashem should help you raise your beautiful children, and you should only have nachas and happiness. Your Classmate

i am so sorry to hear this
June 28, 2011 4:37 pm

hashem you are the most mercyfull have racdhmanos on your children , please unite these orphans to their parents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to rmordecdhais family hashem should comfort you with every nechama hamakom yenachem eschem besoch sharei avlei tzion veyerushalayim

Hamakom ye'nachem eschem b'soch sh'ar aveilei tziyon vee'rusholayim.
June 28, 2011 3:59 pm

Hamakom ye’nachem eschem b’soch sh’ar aveilei tziyon vee’rusholayim.

Baruch Dayan Haemes
June 28, 2011 3:55 pm
Nothing left to say
June 28, 2011 3:08 pm

Sat down to post a comment and simply found nothing to say.Too painful to comment on. May Hashem send yeshuos and nechomos to the Shapiro and Zarchi families. To watch them deal with everything there was to deal with these past several years was a lesson in emunah, courage, and acceptance that no words can describe. Hamakom ye’nachem eschem b’soch sh’ar aveilei tziyon vee’rusholayim.

Helping The Family
June 28, 2011 2:31 pm

Does anyone know where a donation can be sent

Nichum Aveilim
June 28, 2011 1:35 pm

Hamakom yenachem eschem bsoch sh’ar aveili tzion virushalayim der eibershter zohl eich geben kaiach ibertrogen dem nisayoin oon Ehr vet zicher gefinen a veg freilach machen eiereh hertzer mit besurois toivois tamid kal hayamim.
MS

Condolences to the Schapiro and Zarchi Families
June 28, 2011 12:59 pm

from Rabbi Chaim and Nechama Prus, Boston, MA

Feigelstocks Pgh
June 28, 2011 12:31 pm

Thinking of you and feeling for you

BDE
June 28, 2011 11:37 am

The Spalter Family

MOSHIACH NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
June 28, 2011 11:27 am

Baruch Dayen Emes!

in YSP 5757
June 28, 2011 10:29 am

He was in YSP and was such a nice and great counselor.
May his family be consoled by Hashem.

a friend
June 28, 2011 9:51 am

leah hashem should give you strength to go on

a neighbor
June 28, 2011 9:08 am

I remember back in the mid mem’s when we used to wait in front of the Schapiro house for the bus to come and take us to Oholei Torah. on realy cold days, we would wait in the vestibule in fron tof their house. I was one of the youngest kids there, and the only one without an “older brother”. I always felt alone. Mochai was always very kind and sweet to me. a real gentle soul.
Baruch Dayan Emes
Veyomar Letzoroseinu DAI!
Velvel Lipsker

when will this stop??
June 28, 2011 9:07 am

baruch dayan haemes!
hes soo young!!

BDE
June 28, 2011 8:56 am

What a true tragedy!

my counselor
June 28, 2011 8:13 am

He was quite a special person, my favorite counselor by far. hamokom yenchem

Modechai, we will all miss you
June 28, 2011 7:01 am

mordechai was a tzadik of a yid, always with a smile and never complained about his matzav, may his family recover from this big tragedy.. from your co workers at B&H photo

bde
June 28, 2011 6:58 am

he was such a nice counsler always had a smile on his face

Mendel
June 28, 2011 4:25 am

So much thelim and so meny le caims wishing 4 a refua shliama . What has happen . Ohy vey bde

i am so sorry to hear this
June 28, 2011 3:49 am

hashem you are the most mercyfull have racdhmanos on your children , please unite these orphans to their parents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to rmordecdhais family hashem should comfort you with every nechama hamakom yenachem eschem besoch sharei avlei tzion veyerushalayim

tut altz vas er kent!!!
June 28, 2011 2:49 am

now we need to take this as an opportunity to add in good. in memory of Mordechai we should add in torah and mitzvos!!!!!!

SO SAD :(
June 28, 2011 2:45 am

SHAME
HASHEM HAVE MERCY ON BNAI YISROEL AND BRING MOSHIACH
BORUCH DAYIN HAEMES

Ad Mosai!
June 28, 2011 2:32 am

We all hurt from losing Mochai. But to have known him was to learn from him. I am fortunate for having known him.

NAH AL TISHKACHEINU!!!!!!
June 28, 2011 2:16 am

Habeit Mishamayim Ureei Ki Hayeenu Laag Vakeles Bagoyim Nechshavnu Katzon Latevach Yuval Laharog Uleabed….UVECHOL ZOIS SHIMCHAH LO SHAHCHOCHNU NAH AL TISHKACHEINU!!!! Tatte in Himmel We’ve been thru so much….and yet we still have not forgotten your name!!! Now please be fair and DON”T FORGET US!!!! Signed, All Yidden BRING MOSHIACH IMMEDIATELY!!

Condolences from poway
June 28, 2011 1:35 am

Reb mendy and Chaya , our community offers you and your family our most sincerest condolences.

From a classmate
June 28, 2011 1:23 am

Mochai was such a gentle and kind person. When I first moved to CH, he was very warm and open and welcoming to me… What a loss.

Please post details of any fund set up for his widow and orphans; I’d love to donate.

Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.

Camper
June 28, 2011 1:09 am

Baruch Dayan Haemes! Ad Mosai!
Mochai was my counselor and I remember him as a gentle soul exactly as you described. I recall how he cared for his campers and that it was natural for him, he was a special neshama, MOSHIACH NOW! Enough suffering! Sincerely,
Yosef Muchnik

Ad Mosai
June 28, 2011 12:31 am

eibishter where are you…..this is just too hard to comprehend….the pain is just too much….

boruch dayan haemes
June 28, 2011 12:27 am
in pain
June 28, 2011 12:23 am

lomoh lonetzach tishkochenu……
hashivenu hashem ailecho venoshuvah chadesh yomenu kekedem
hamokom yenachem eschem bsoich shaar aailey tziyon beyerusholaim
Yidden……. AD MOSAI AD MOSI AD MOSAI

hashem sheyishmor
June 28, 2011 12:20 am

ad mosy X3 how much longer

Friend
June 28, 2011 12:17 am

The world has lost a fine human being, father and husband.

Boruch N. Hoffinger BS
June 28, 2011 12:08 am

OY!
HaShem takes ‘Tzadikim’ as a ‘kappora’ for our sins!
Painful!
Rabbi H. Zarchi, I’m so sorry!
Condolences to family and friends. I didn’t know him……too painful…OY!

No words!!!!
June 27, 2011 11:55 pm
such much pain and suffering!
June 27, 2011 11:55 pm

OY! OY! OY!
BDE

Hurts
June 27, 2011 11:49 pm

It hurts not just as a cousin, but also as someone who Mochai personally helped.

There are no words…

AAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDD MOSAI !!!!
June 27, 2011 11:40 pm

“MOSHIACH NOW”

BD
June 27, 2011 11:25 pm

WE NEED MOSHIACH NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HASHEM, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! THE TIME IS NOW, WE’RE TRYING R BEST!!!
SEND MOSHIACH NOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A dear classmate.
June 27, 2011 11:24 pm

you smiled at me when you were in pain
you gave us strenth when you had nothing to give
you asked how i was when you were suffering
you touched my heart when yours was week
you opened your doors for us to farbreng

As you held our hand and gave us a smile till today we will keep holding your hand and smiling to you forever.

dov
June 27, 2011 11:17 pm

bde

yehuda in florida
June 27, 2011 11:16 pm

boruch dayan emes

a true chosid
an incredible father and husband
a mench
may the family only know simchas

What a tragedy
June 27, 2011 11:11 pm

This is not normal! Hashem Yerachem!!!!

A friend and classmate
June 27, 2011 11:11 pm

Leah our hearts and our prayers are with you and your family, may moshiach come now and end your pain.

oy vey!
June 27, 2011 11:06 pm

so sad!! Oy Hashem!! MASPIK KVAR!!

Aunt mussie schapiro
June 27, 2011 11:02 pm

I’m so sorry to hear. Baruch dayan emes. May you and your family only have simchos.
Ady

Ad Mosai! Ad mosai! Ad Mosai!!
June 27, 2011 10:53 pm

Boruch Dayan Emes!! Such horrible news…Aibeshter!

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