By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Aharon Stawsky, a Chabad Shliach who found life in doing Mitzvos also passed away while performing one on Sunday, 14 Tishrei 5773.
He was 50.
Stawsky was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and studied Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. That led to him becoming interested in pursuing more rigorous learning of Judaism and enrolled in Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim in Morristown, NJ.
There, with the guidance of the rabbis at the known institution for baalei teshuva on the campus of the Rabbinical College of America, he consumed the pages and knowledge of Gemara, Chassidus, halacha and more.
After his marriage he learned in the Kollel Avreichim in Crown Heights, where he was ordained as a rabbi and a shochet, and it didn’t take long until he put that knowledge into practice.
He then moved with his family to Buenos Aires as a Shliach of the Rebbe. He headed the adult education courses department at Beit Jabad Central, headquarters of Chabad in the country.
He eventually became director of Beit Jabad Once, a Chabad center in Buenos Aires that is home to a synagogue called the “Litvische Shul,” a mikvah for men, regular classes for adults, programs for children and Bar/Bas Mitzvah Instruction.
His wife, Mrs. Shoshana Stawsky, was the co-director and also the Assistant Principal of the Oholey Chinuch Girls School, working alongside Mrs. Shterna Grunblatt.
On Sunday, erev Sukkos, Rabbi Stawsky was building a Sukkah with the help of his 7-year-old son Chaim.
“It seems that he was walking (on the roof) and fell into a wood factory (which is located on the ground floor),” a member of the Chabad community in Argentina told COLlive.com.
News of the devastating tragedy spread around the community as yomtov began and the body was taken to the morgue. “The whole community in Buenos Aires is very sad over this,” the person said.
He is survived by his wife Shoshi Stawsky and their children Chana, Miri, Sterna, Jaiele, Yocheved, and Chaim.
The levaya is taking place Wednesday in Argentina.
Baruch dayan haemes.
I go to the litvische shul and rabbi Aron did my bar mitzvah. my sinagogue is very very and very sad in this moment.
Beis Chana Tzfas
if what the Eibershter wants of us is to do His mitzvos with kabolas ol, unfortunatly this way, but sukos in Buenos Aires this yr is with true. kabolas ol. In Aharon{s ah shul the meal he prepared was attended, the iom tov dancing was done with bitter tears, but was danced, the kehile stands firm and strong to show the Eibershter that we dont break, we are ready for the true and complete joy of gueuleh, may it be Now. Aharon ah would teach us inionei Moshiach and gueuleh, with such tmimus and chayus, may he now remind the… Read more »
Aharon, ah, was much more then giving shiurim etc etc, a totally low profil shliach, dedicated to EVERY and ANY need of ANYONE who approached him and on the spot!
as he was doing a mitzva? what else did he ever do?? we are talking about a shliach!!
lets trust and demand, as the Rebbe teaches us to demand, that he is the Aharon haKohen that will acompany the Rebbe back to us all, today, ready for hakofos do lematoh, Now
Miri ,hahsem help u and ur family,be strong miri we love u , mashiah now
As I read this, I suddenly started shivering. How can I respond to such a heart-rending incident?? Ad mosai, Hashem!!! How can you allow such awful things to happen??
And what ever happened to “Shluchei mitzvah einan nezikin”?!
las paredes lloras las piedras gritan ad mosai!! y ya no hay
mas fuerzas para seguir hashem ad mosai!!!!
my heart goes out to this family..please hashem bring us moshiach now
אנחנו משתתפים בצערכם שהקבה ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון ירושלים משפחת בן דיין אבודרהם
Miri we are with you and thinking of you and shocked by this terrible news! may moshiach come now and put and end to these tragedies. May you and your family be reunited with your dear father very soon with the beis hamikdosh!
Aharon was a very special person a true Chosid of the Rebbe.
He was a tenant of mine when he lived in N.Y. You can not find nicer People then him and his Wife.
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem… the wonderful family and may they find comfort in the good deeds of their father….
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hasheem….. its too much… we need moshiach now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
baruch dayan haemet
its crasy i just cant believe it
Ad Mossai.. We need moshiach now!
Could Moshiach come alredy!!! Ad Mosai!!
what terrible news!
The Rebbe always linked such untimely tragedies to a need for our community to strengthen our divine protection!!
we all know how to re-attract Hashems protection against tragedies…. lets all unite & take hachlatos to improve Hashem’s brachos & protection to our kehilos!!
Geulah Now!!!!!
(Chitas, Gmilus chasodim, Tznius, Checking Tfilin Mezuzos)
Estamos con ustedes es este momento tan difícil, que Hashem los bendiga con todo el bien y que de ahora en adelante saben solo de simjas y alegrias con mucho abundancia bgashmius uberujnius.
Familia Spalter
Costa Rica
No se puede entender no se puede aceptar… Asta cuando … Ashem, ten piedades sobre los yudim manda ya el mashiaj.
oy vey! Baruch Daya Haemes! Hashem… thisis too much. We need Moshiach NOW!!
soo sadd…..!!
add mosaaaaaaaaaai??????????????????
How can anyone explain the ways of Hashem? But can you imagine how pure his Neshamah left this world – in the middle of performing a Mitzvah! That is stuff of legends! On Matzevah’s they usually inscribe that the departed was in the middle of a Mitzvah. The Neshomoh left this world Bikdusha Uvtaharah… Think about it: He could have been anywhere and doing anything.
Sin poder creer de lo sucedido. Una Familia tan hermosa
Bh el rab stawsky pudo tener verdaderos najat de su FAmiliA.
Que tzadik nistar. Fallecer en medio de una mitzva. Que tzadik nistar fallecer sin dolor. Que tzadik nistar,que mismo despues de su fallecimiento asegura que la gente Este feliz. Qur por yom tov uno tenga que estar con simja.
Ojala podria estar en Argentina y acompañar a semejante tzadik en sus ultimos momentos. desde lejos Los acompaño. Con tehilim Durante la levaya y muchas lagrimas.mashiaj ya.
i can’t even think about the way he must have passed away in the factory…..how horrible and tragic
leaving such a young family behind…….
why? we are taught we never get harmed in the performance of a mitzvah?
is there someone out there who can explain this in any way?
hamokom yenachem the wonderful family and may they find comfort in the good deeds of their father…..
Baruch Dayan Emes – I’m so sorry and sad for his whole family. May they find strength and comfort.