With restrictions on large gatherings still in effect, the first Yartzeit of the bochur Shmuel Karnowsky OBM will be marked this Shabbos, 28 Sivan, in homes and Shuls in Crown Heights.
Following an inspiring online event on Thursday evening, over 250 packages were sent to family and friends on Friday.
The packages included a mishna booklet to learn from for the yahrzeit, tzedaka for before candle lighting, Lchayim and Nosh to make a Bracha, a pamphlet on Tanya written in honor of Shmuel, magnets with Shmuel’s signature saying – “be nice,” along with a heartfelt letter from Shmuel’s parents, Osher and Rivkah Karnowsky.
The packages also included a special Kovetz with learning materials written by family and friends in Shmuel’s honor.
Many of the Ha’aros were written by Shmuel’s great uncles, including Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Karnowsky – the Mashgiach Ruchni of Gateshead Yeshiva, and his many rebbeim, including Rabbi Zalman Kaplan Rosh Yeshiva of Tzfas, Rabbi Noam Wagner Rosh Yeshiva of South Africa Yeshiva, and many more.
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Letter from Osher and Rivka Karnowksy:
Dear Friends, עמו”ש
This Shabbos, Chof Ches Sivan, marks the first yahrzeit of our beloved son, Hatamim Shmuel A”H Ben Osher: an intelligent, friendly, mature young 15-year-old boy full of simchas hachayim and beautiful middos. Shmuel truly was a wonderful, loving son and brother, an excellent, diligent bochur and a beloved friend to many.
As many of you know, we have been encouraging Shabbos Mevarchim Tehillim for children in the Crown Heights community. Tehillim reaches straight to the Kisei Hakovod and the pure yearning and emotion embedded within the pesukim have immeasurable power, both in times of sorrow and joy.
This coming Shabbos, we ask each of you, every adult and child, to open up a sefer tehillim. Not only in the zchus of our sorely missed son, but also as a reflection of your own yearning: to plead from your own heart for the Aibishter to bring an end to this galus. Together as a tzibur, united as Lubavitcher Chassdim, we have a koach, and this shabbos, the 28 of Sivan, is a day of koach (כח); the day the Rebbe and Rebbetzin came to America, and only a few days before Gimmel Tammuz.
These last few months our community has so poignantly shown achdus, shared each other’s sorrows as well as simchas. Let’s recite tehillim with one another in mind, out of chesed and ahava, for all of Am Yisroel. For our son as well as all the chassidim who were recently niftar and, if we may be so bold, please learn a mishna or two and give tzedakah before licht benchen for our dear son, Shmuel A”H Ben Osher, may his neshama have an aliyah! Together, may all of our tefillas reach the highest of high and may we merit to greet Moshiach Now!
Sincerely,
Osher and Rivka Karnowsky
Beautiful way to commemorate the yarzeit.
How does a child know if they are getting the $ 13 for saying Tehillim on Shabbos Mevorchim