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Rabbi Mendel Gorman, 45, OBM

Rabbi Mendel Gorman, a young father and beloved member of the Edgware, London Chabad community passed away on Purim. Full Story

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Nohum Shtroks
March 30, 2016 12:59 pm

Corection to #51
ובנו הר’ י”י שיבדל לחיים טובים ארוכים ושלום

Miriam Cohen. Melbourne
March 30, 2016 9:28 am

Miriam I am thinking of you and Perel whom I taught here and all your children and all the Gorman family. Only Hashem can comfort you all we can do is share in your pain and attempt to emulate some of Mendys fine Middos Ahavas Yisroel and Yiras Shamayim. המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים
May Hashem send you abundant good and nachas from now on.

Nohum Shtroks
March 29, 2016 11:35 am

לכבוד היקרים הנאמנים והנעלים הר’ הירשל ובנו הר’ מ”מ וכל המשפחה שיחיו, אבדתכם היא אבדתנו ומכאובכם היא מכאובנו. המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים, ומעתה אך טוב וחסד יבשרו לכם תמיד כל הימים. והקיצו ורננו שוכני עפר והוא בתוכם.

Rabbi Chaim Jacobs Glasgow
March 29, 2016 2:13 am

To my chaver Reb Hershel from Egerton Rd shul, Kfar Chabad, 770 and London I’m with you from Glasgow, as we were together over the very many years in London. No words can express your deep loss. Hashem should give you, your wife and your family great strength and from now only nachas and simchas. May you continue your special talents as a Shliach Tzibur for many years and such a wonderful shopkeeper to so many going thru your doors in London. המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים ואך טוב וחסד , בטוב הנראה והנגלה, ימצא אתכם תמיד… Read more »

Selwyns ny
March 28, 2016 5:41 pm

Anyone have the family email address

Benyomin Niasoff
March 27, 2016 3:59 pm

Sorry to hear
He was my dear friend and classmate in lubavitch high school stamford hill

So very sorry to hear...
March 27, 2016 12:21 am

I knew them in Melbourne, Miriam was one of the warmest and sweetest people I’ve met, an impression that stayed with me.
Sending love and Davening for Hashem to give you the strength you need now and always.
Hamokom yenachem eschem bsoch shaar avelei tzion veyerushalayim.

He was my teacher
March 26, 2016 11:10 pm

He had so much patience and was always there with a smile. Thank you for everything you have done for me

a friend of eliyahu
March 26, 2016 10:31 pm

hamakom menachem eschem…

Tellers from Israel
March 26, 2016 4:17 pm

We are so heartbroken for you Miriam my first kallah teacher the sweetest strongest woman I know, that’s why I also know she will get through this with miraculous koach and be blessed with clarity and comfort min shamayim,
We miss and love your family so much
Please stay strong we are with you
Baruch Dayan haemes

Kantor Snr
March 25, 2016 6:39 pm

המקום ינחם – ידיד המרגיש ממרחקים

My early Talmid BDE
March 25, 2016 6:10 pm

I am deeply shocked to learn of the petirah of Mendy O”H. As one of his teachers in Kita Dalet, a wonderful kind and aidel talmid, and the enthusiasm in his learning Mishnayos Baal Peh, May all the kindness that he performed in the short years he spent on earth, ensure a lichtige Gan Eden. My heart goes out to Reb Hershel, his wife, his children and siblings with Brochos of Nichumim and Arichus Yomim. To reiterate #26 המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים ואך טוב וחסד , בטוב הנראה והנגלה, ימצא אתכם תמיד כל הימים, ויקיצו וירננו… Read more »

Crying
March 25, 2016 6:03 pm

Oh how the beloved and dear Mendel Gorman was taken away from us!!!!! The Gormans are such an incredibly warm and loving family, and it’s so hard to hear and bear this tragic news.

May they only know of Simcha and revealed goodness from now on.

The Rosenblums
March 25, 2016 5:34 pm

BDM Devori. We were so sorry to hear about your brother. There are no adequate words of consolation. May you and your family know of no more sorrow and may you go only from simcha to simcha from this time forth.

Sonny & Linda Rosenblum
Montreal

Perel, Chayale, Devorah Leah and Cheftzi!
March 25, 2016 1:02 pm

Thinking of you xx

Richlands
March 25, 2016 12:50 pm

BDE can’t express how sad and upset we are. Our thought and prayers are with Miriam and the family

Heartbreaking
March 25, 2016 11:31 am

I love you Devora Lea Chefzi and Yosef
Be strong !

Ad Mosai - Please help us Hashem
March 25, 2016 10:52 am

We wish the family to know only of happiness and good health,
Lubavitch Shul of Ocean Parkway Flatbush.

Mendy I miss you!
March 25, 2016 10:24 am

The news about my dear friend Mendy hit me in the middle of my Purim celebration, that was the end of my happiness and serenity. I have known you for so many years, back in 770, you and your wife have graciously hosted me for entire weeks in a row at your house, and all without fanfare, always saying “come anytime you want, stay for as long as you need”..I was not a guest in your house rather like a ben bayis. I was amazed at your kishroynos in everything you got yourself into: from Chazzanus, to Safrus, to being… Read more »

Former student from Melbourne
March 25, 2016 9:19 am

He will be fondly remembered and greatly missed.

A really good guy
March 25, 2016 7:32 am

And a pleasure to be around. I spent time with him when he was in Melbourne.

May Hashem bring comfort to his lovely family, his parents, his wife and his dear children.

From an admirer.

Ciao Miriam
March 25, 2016 7:02 am

Ciao Miriam, sono terribilmente dispiaciuta della triste notizia.!!!!!! Che Hashem vi dia la forza di superare questo brutto momento!!! Ti voglio bene Miriam e ho sempre un bellissimo ricordo del tempo passato insieme a Carlo Poerio.

Ad Masai Ad Masai Ad Masai
March 25, 2016 3:36 am

May R’ Mendy be a guta beita and shturem the heavens that Moshiach should come Taikeph Umiyad Mamash! HYEBSATV

Louise Solomon
March 25, 2016 3:20 am

So terribly sorry to hear this tragic news. Thinking of you all

Good friends
March 25, 2016 3:12 am

Standing outside the chabad house yesterday. Watching my dear friend Miriam and her children crushed and looking so lost, was heart breaking. My husband has lost his dear friend and chavrusa. My heart breaks for them all. Mendy always loved to say lchaim and his extensive wine and exotic whiskey which were always shared with his close friends. We have lost a great chassidic genius.

ז"ל
March 25, 2016 2:34 am

זכרונו לברכה
אני כילד זוכר אותו בתור שליח לכמה חודשים (ביחד עם מענדי גורקוב) עוד כשהיה בחור בקישינוב מולדובה ברית המועצות בחורף תשנ”ג
לפני שעזב העניק לי סידור עם הקדשה אישית שהוא נמצא ברשותי עד היום

bde
March 25, 2016 2:13 am

So sad! Ad Masai! how much longer?!? We need moshiach right now! i feel so bad for the kids… No more hashem!

To my chaver Reb Hershel
March 25, 2016 2:05 am

I’m with you. from Brooklyn, as we were together in Yeshivah in 770. No words. Hashem should give you, your wife and your family great strength and from now only nachas and simches. May you continue your special talents as a Shliach Tzibur for many years.
המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים ואך טוב וחסד , בטוב הנראה והנגלה, ימצא אתכם תמיד כל הימים, ויקיצו וירננו שוכני עפר, והוא יקירנו, בתוכם, תיכף ומיד ממש

To Eliyahu
March 25, 2016 1:51 am

thinking of you.
May the aibishter give you and your entire family the Koach to go through this difficult time.
BARUCH DAYAN HOEMES

Boruch Dayan Emes
March 25, 2016 1:05 am

I’m so sorry to hear this. Hamakom yenachem eschem besoch aveilei tzion veyerushalayim.
Why?
Why is Adar, the happiest month, a month of Simcha, so wrought with pain, with sadness, with tragedy. Only Moshiach will be able to explain….

melbourne australia
March 25, 2016 12:56 am

I didn,t know the man.
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ut I do know it,s time for mosciach and tchiyas hameisim hamakom yenachem eschem betoch shaar avalei tsion vi yerushalaim

Melbourne AUSTRALIA
March 25, 2016 12:31 am

I will never forget what a great Shaliach he was when he was here as a bochur.
He learnt with my sons and was a great mashpia to them
whilst they were impressionable youngsters.
Mottel Feiglin

Met him once
March 25, 2016 12:12 am

He was a true mentsch, had a love for Hashem, the Rebbe and fellow human beings
Edgware was deeply influenced by his presence and his classes [which always had a good l’chaim served]

londoner
March 24, 2016 10:55 pm

Bde. rabbi gorman was truly a wonderful man. Due to his care and patience he was an amazing teacher too, he taught me haftora. He was also a great sofer. Forever that which rabbi gorman has taught me will live on in me

המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבילי ציון וירושלים
March 24, 2016 10:39 pm

Miriam courage.
Da Chana Hinda

hashem ishmor
March 24, 2016 8:04 pm

may he be with god. this is a tragic incident we need moshiach now!!!

Oyy
March 24, 2016 7:54 pm

I’m crying. He will be greatly missed. we cannot fathom your pain, miriam and kids but we are all crying. why is this day of happiness transformed to pain…no words…

chayale
March 24, 2016 7:19 pm

love u chayale, we’re here for u xx

המקום ינחם
March 24, 2016 7:19 pm

Hashem should comfort the children and wife…
May we see Moshiach now
Bde

mendel tz"l
March 24, 2016 7:18 pm

growing up in the uk, mendel was always their at overnight camp. He was funny and chassidish…and passing away on purim was his last joke..may his mishpacha know what any erlhicher yid and chossid he was…bde

Sofer
March 24, 2016 6:51 pm

R’ Mendel was also an active Sofer STa”M, both in Melbourne and later in London. He wrote the tefillin parshiyos for one of my friends. May the family be comforted and may this sorrow be imminently transformed to days of sosson vsimcha with moshiach, now!

Rabbi Mendel Gorman....
March 24, 2016 6:50 pm

He will be missed for many things… For one, the childrens Megila reading was not the same without him last night at Lubavitch of Edgware, and it will miss him forever more…😥
May Hashem comfort his Aishes Chayil and precious children, together with his dear parents and siblings.
המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים

Eliahu!!!!
March 24, 2016 6:31 pm

I love you!!!

Mrs Debbie stern
March 24, 2016 5:39 pm

I have been crying I was saying tehillem everyday
He was in prayers all the time. I send my deepest condolences
Love Debbie

Rotenberg
March 24, 2016 5:35 pm

So sad to hear, may the family only know simcha in their lives on purim may we will have moshiach immediately
Danny R

המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבילי ציון וירושלים
March 24, 2016 5:04 pm

A brilliant chazan in Heichal Menachem golders green on yomim noroim for several years. He will be missed.

London is in mourning
March 24, 2016 4:53 pm

Went to the levaya today, just awful!
Huge turnout on Purim. Ppl standing around crying in costume . Just so typical of mendel to have it this way!
Miriam and children and all the family , may you be comforted and may we see the coming of moshiach NOW , no more suffering and pain!

Boruch Dayan Hoemes
March 24, 2016 4:52 pm

My heart is broken, I can’t get over it.
Miriam may Hashem send us the Geula Hashleimo Techef Umiad Mamosh.
We need Moshiach NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Mitoch Shaarei Tzion ViYerushalayim.
Shmuel and Bracha Hurwitz

Chayale!
March 24, 2016 4:35 pm

I love you!

Wow!! So sad
March 24, 2016 4:31 pm

Old friend in Toronto

i can't belive what i'm reading....
March 24, 2016 4:24 pm

i know his daughters from camp.
this is such terrible news.
may his family be comforted, and only have simchas.
Moshiach NOW!!!!

Heartbroken
March 24, 2016 4:19 pm

Heartbroken Is not the word :(:(

bde
March 24, 2016 4:14 pm

So sad to hear

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