Stories-tribute to Habachur R' Dovid Robbins ZT'L

sem20- Having known him for many years, can you please share some of the many stories that come to mind?

I didn’t know him well but have seen him around since he was in his low teens. I am incredibly sad at his petirah. I truly think there is so much we can learn from him. He did not have much in his life in any way that most of us count, yet he never seemed unhappy or angry. He seemed to be a true mekabel that Hashem chooses our lots in life and he just carried on making the best of what he could. I am sure that he lived his life’s tafkid to the fullest and that his makom in Gan Eden is right next to the Kisei Hakovod. Yehi Zichro Baruch.

i’m sorry, i live in brooklyn but have no idea who he was. can someone explain to me? i’ve been wondering since i saw the front page news story and signs in the yeshiva where i work.

I’ve read a few times that he had a hard life and many nisyonos. Would it be appropriate for someone to tell us a bit of his life – the hardships and tests? He was apparently an amazing person to have been such a happy individual and an inspiration to so many. Maybe we can all learn from him. I don’t mean to sound nosy – it’s just that I feel that those of us who didn’t know him could be inspired by his life story.

I was reading the above comments & I feel that people should definitely learn from a holy neshama like he had. I was around him from time to time in Chaim Berlin and Camp Morris.

Like sem20 said “Dovid was the perfect person to talk to when you needed to kill time, or to cheer yourself up”, but I did it for that and to give him chizuk. As was said, he NEVER showed any tzar from his inability to strive and think like others. Rather, he took every day at a time, thinking of how to make the world a better place. For those who know him from my yeshiva, you can usually find him in the coffee room having a geshmake schmooz before we went to seder. He always had a smile and said jokes to make people laugh which I think made him feel better. He was a chaver to many and a chizuk to all!

Gefen,

I lived next door to Dovid in my youth. He lived alone and didn’t have much family at the time aside from his mother. She was niftar roughly 15 years ago leaving him alone in this world.

He was somewhat slow and for a time had a job bagging groceries in a Flatbush supermarket.

He would often visit yeshivos such as Torah Temimah, Derech Chaim and others for a warm meal and more importantly, some companionship. He would always have a dvar torah or a joke to try and make people happy.

He would visit Lakewood from time to time, often eating Shabbos meals at the home of the Rosh Yeshiva of BMG, Rav Dovid Schustal who was maspid at the levaya.

This is most of what you will hear about him-was a nice guy who always tried to make people happy.

His petirah is a loss to klal yisroel, especially to the hundreds if not thousands of yeshiva bochurim who knew him fairly well over the years

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