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February 17, 2011 3:16 pm at 3:16 pm #595090✡onegoal™Participant
From what I’ve heard he was a very great and amazing man. I have heard several awesome stories about him and would love to hear more! Anybody got any? Thanks in advance!
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February 17, 2011 3:32 pm at 3:32 pm #741512YW Moderator-80Memberi have no stories, never met him
one of the greatest Tzaddikim of our generation
i did hear that on the day he was in the fatal accident one of his other daughters wanted to come with him, she begged him but he refused to let her.
February 17, 2011 3:48 pm at 3:48 pm #741513Shalom ChaverMemberListen to his recorded lectures, study his sefarim; that should give you a glimpse of what Rabbi Pincus zt”l was.
February 17, 2011 5:50 pm at 5:50 pm #741514Derech HaMelechMemberHis tapes are beyond incredible.
I’ve heard that Rav Chaim wrote a letter to the surviving family saying that the the three were a korban for Klal Yisroel.
February 17, 2011 6:11 pm at 6:11 pm #741515✡onegoal™ParticipantYes I have heard that one mod 80. As an add on that crash happened Erev Pasach. The Purim before he was at home and the phone rang and he was drunk so he picked it up and said “Hello, Hashem, is that you? I’ve been waiting for your call, I’m ready to meet with you.”
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February 17, 2011 6:16 pm at 6:16 pm #741516mytakeMemberI think there’s a book on him (I read it a long time ago, but I can’t remember the title). Maybe “Voice of Truth”…
February 17, 2011 6:26 pm at 6:26 pm #741517yaff80ParticipantI went to some of his shiurim in Yerushalayim.
He had a fantastic koach of taking lofty ideas, and explaining them in laymans terms, using good meshalim.
Also I found with him, he used stories of himself to create lessons.
I recently saw somewhere, a man came to him to ask him to daven on his behalf that he should be zoiche to have children. Rav Shimshon said “I cant help you now. Come back at 2am”
Well, if that what it takes, thats what he did. At 2am he knocks on the door. Rav shimshon said “come, lets go for a ride”.
Off they went, in the car, along the road leading out of the city. They come to the dessert, and they drive for a few minutes. Rav Shimshon stops the car and gets out.
He turns to the guy and says “stay here for a half hour, daven, scream to Hashem from the bottom of your heart. Tell him how much you want this. You are in a dessert so noone will be disturbed, no-one will hear. I will be back in 30 minutes to fetch you”.
30 Minutes later rav Shimshon returns, and says to the guy “No. You havent done what I said. I want you to really pour your heart out. But really let it all out. I will be back in half an hour”
Half an hour later he returns, and the guys shirt is wet from tears and sweat. His face is stained from tears. Rav Shimshon says “ah. I can see you did as instructed. Now we can go home”
Within the year the couple had a baby.
Rav Shimshon explained, that a serious pure tefilla from the depths of the heart never goes unanswered. Is better than any B’racha. – BUT IT MUST BE 100%!
He was a “no frills” emesdike tzaddik!
February 17, 2011 7:47 pm at 7:47 pm #741518apushatayidParticipantI only know him from his seforim. Nefesh Shimshon on Shabbos has enhanced my families shabbos table ever since we bought the sefer.
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