Thousands attended the funeral of the legendary Head Shliach of Paris, Rabbi Shmuel Azimov obm at the Shamgar funeral home in Jerusalem, Thursday.
A delegation of hundreds of people flew in from France on a special flight following a funeral in Paris, after which he was flown to Israel for burial on Har Hazeisim.
During the heartbreaking procession, Arabs marred the funeral by throwing rocks at the mourners. No one was injured.
At the funeral, after the reciting of Kaddish, the crowd sang the nigun “Hoaderes V’hoEmunah”, a niggun the Rebbe associated with Rabbi Azimov’s “French Revolution.”
Rabbi Azimov was buried alongside his late wife, Rebbetzin Bassie Azimov OBM.
The Chasidim in France feel they lost their father. The pain is huge. You can see it in their eyes.. Rabbi Azimow was the Shlia ch, the teacher, the guide for every aspect of their life. He was also their father .
He built an empire. A tremendous empire of shluchim and Chasidim, b’darkei hachasidus.
Rabbi Mulle Azimov was the ultimate Shliach one can aspire to!!! mekushar bekol nafshoi to the Rebbe. Burning ahavas Yisroel. a real varemer kluger chsidisher yid. selfless. humble eeemmmeeesss!!! utter sincerety. worhoholik!! Rebbes soldier!!! great fundraiser. lived very modest … ish sholom… in short. everything the Rebbe wants in a Shliach. WE CHSIDIM AND SHLUCHIM HAVE TO LEARN AND TRY TO EMULATE THIS.. HEY LOOK IT IS!!! POSSIBLE TO LIVE LIKE THE REBBE WANTS US TO LIVE. THEREFORE I APPEAL TO THE FAMILY AND THE PARIS COMMUNITY TO PLEASE WRITE AT LEAST ONE BOOK ABOUT THIS GREAT FIGURE SO I… Read more »
No one could grasp the feeling of disbelief and despair that is surrounding us right now.. once again we are orphans… ad mosai???? Hashem please we need your mercy . We feel so ĺonely.. every french jew who had the zchus to know him is devasted..
ye it is actually very very hard for us to even think about the fact that he’s not gonna be with us anymore to help us in everything he would help us in shlichus shiduchim everything
Hashem!!!! we NEED moshiach!!!! we want him now and WE DONT WANT TO WAIT ANY LONGER????? PLEASE HASHEM!!!!!!!WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR!!!!!!!!
OBM
my heart hurts to hear such bad news!!! 🙁 we NEED moshiach
the rav of “ufartsta” ! such an inspiration
it’s so inspiring to see all these ppl coming from france to thank him for the last time and to see all these chassidim singing the french nigun at his levaya . it shows how great he worked all his life and like the rebbe said that is mission was and is successfull bh because it “was beyond expectations” .
Baruch dayan aemes ! What a loss !
reast in peace in gan eden , near your wife , the rebbe and the kise akavod and beg for mochiah . i know you will like you always did when your body was alive
May he go up to Hashem and storm the Heavens for his beloved Am Yisroel and make such a “tumul” that Moshiach will come immediately!!!
rav moule , please don’t leave us ! we need you , paris needs you , france needs you , thousands of ppl need you but also every person who knew you , need you , your family : children , grandchildren , siblings , brothers in law , the all chabad community around the world need you because you were a great model of what the rebbe expected from a chossid
we want moshiah now !!! we can’t handle this nissayon …
I have no words to explain the pain we all have right now and i still can’t believe it . I know words are not enough but really from my deepest inside thank you rav moule for all what you’ve down . You didn’t just build jewish institutions , you built a real life in Paris and the all France . A life full of yiddishkeit , chayus , kindness , joy , achdous and ahavas israel . As a student , i will also thank you for helping me physically in my everyday life with the beth chabad for… Read more »
Rav Azimov was unique, he did more for French Jewry than anyone. He truly loved and cared for every Jew. A man of the people.
Will be sorely missed. BD’H.
If there are a few more Chasidim like Rabbi Mulle Azimov obm Moshiach will be here soon!!!!!!
The pictures speek for themselves!