Levaya Of Dovid Robbins Z’L

We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Habachur Dovid Robbins Z’L, who was reportedly found dead R’L in Boro Park after being reported missing. Dovid Z’L, approximately 40 years old, who frequented Lakewood, was reported missing after friends said they had not seen him in several days.

Boro Park Hatzolah and Chaveirim went out searching for him, and found him unresponsive last night.

His Levaya will be taking place at the Shomrei Hadas Chapel in Boro Park at 1:00 PM.

The Kvurah will be taking place in Floral Park Cemetery, NJ.

Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.

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25 COMMENTS

  1. I knew him. he always smiled and had a good word to say in spite of all his difficulties. who ever knew him knows what im talking about and we should all learn to smile and be happy whatever the matzav is. BE bsimcha

  2. Such a sweet person!! May he be a meilitz yosher for all of klal yisroel. Please be mochel for any slight on your honor. Any info on his full hebrew name for mishnayos?

  3. wow its scary, i met up with him 2 weeks ago in Rabbi Bluth’s shul

    Friday night, i have not seen him in years,

    we used to play ball up in the mountains

    very kind soul

    BDE

  4. I am so broken hearted… I will miss this special human being…. anyone who he touched could feel his genuineness and loving warmth for everyone… if you knew him… YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!

    Boruch Dayan Emes!

    I will never forget you.

  5. Sweet sweet Dovid was a walking talking laughing sweet giant teddy bear of a person.

    My wife and I knew him going all the way back (nearly 25 years ago) to a small yeshiva and shul on 16th avenue and 44th street in Borough Park named “Yeshivas Hamatmonim” which mean “hidden treasures”.

    Without doubt, Dovid was one of klall yisroels greatest gems and treasure. It was impossible not to love this special person. I cant stop crying thinking about how he was all alone in his last moments on this world. Sadly, that’s how it was for him so much of the time… alone…

    Yet whenever he was near, you felt like you were the center of his attention and he always had that twinkle in his eye that never betrayed his life of lonliness. He always tried to crack a joke or a humorous remark just to make others smile and brighten their day.

    The story they say about Rav Yisroel Belsky seeing Dovid walking the streets in a daze many years ago just after Dovid’s mother passed away… and how Rav Belsky told Dovid to sit in Rav Belsky’s own home for the entire shiva period to mourn his mother is an example of the lonliness of Dovid’s life. But it also shows the love his friends had for him and that they would try to help fill the emptiness that Dovid’s life had – but I am afraid, we never really did quite enough.

    Dovid wouldn’t harm a fly…

    Let me rephrase that, HE COULDNT HARM A FLY!!

    There wasnt a single bad bone in his entire body. He was filled only with warmth and love for all – his special neshoma… a neshoma, that was dealt hardships on both a physical level and a mental one too but still never stopped smiling. Anyone who may have seen him as ackward and dared to tease or make fun of him soon realized they were playing with fire and were placing themselves directly in the line of sight of kitrug from bais din shel myla – Dovid without doubt was one of Hashem’s special and most dearest.

    Dovid was the epitome of a walking kiddush Hashem. I loved his inner warmth and inner humility that was a throwback to something from another time. His lovely shining personality didnt reflect the fast paced mad-dashing ways of 21st century life. You could feel he was at peace and that he helped others feel at peace as well. He was so warm and kind when he would try to earn some extra money by selling annual memberships to Kashrus Currents magazine. I had a few subscriptions because I didnt have the heart to remind him that he already signed me up … I wish I did more for him but at least I was able to also make him feel accomplished everytime he would call to ask me if I had a membership. He never pushed, he was so gentle and it was this part of his personality that drew the affections of so many.

    His sense of humor could always elicit a smile from anyone. But the one who never stopped smiling most was Dovid Robbins himself. He had what was seemingly a hard life and in some ways; was so alone.

    Yet no matter what hardship he seemed to be enduring at any time, you would hardly ever be aware of it because his special soul could spin any challenge or sadness into strands of 24K gold with his simchas halayv and simchas hachayim.

    It is such a tragic loss to us all to lose our dear dear friend Reb Dovid.

    He was a Rebbe to us all…

    A Rebbe of derech eretz and middos tovos.

    A Rebbe of ahavas hatorah and yiras shemayim who was filled with ahavas Hashem at all times.

    A Rebbe of ahavas yisroel.

    It was a special honor and zechus for me and my wife to have had the opportunity to have been a small part of his life over the years. Thank you Hashem for allowing our paths to cross one of your lamed vuvs of middos tovos and ahavas hachayim. I will try to purposely and deliberately keep Dovid’s memory alive by giving people a warmer smile and show genuine appreciation for the many blessings that have been bestowed on me and my family.

    I will always miss you Dovid.

    I will never forget you Dovid.

    Please be a maylitz yosher for anyone who is sad and is suffering and ask Hashem to help bring a smile to their faces just like that warm and wonderful little chuckle and smile you always had!!!

    Boruch Dayan H’emes!!!!

  6. I first met him when I was 6 or 7 we used to play ball in they school yard of Montok High school. later on he used to eat and hang out at my house. Yes, he always had a vort and a joke to say. He will be greatly missed.

    Please be mochel me that I would tease you a little and dint treat you with the respect you deserved … BD”H

  7. Dovid will be missed, not only by his friends, but by his family. Dovid had a photographic memory for names, songs, and numbers. Most would not get that by first signt, I guess that is why we are supposed to be dam li hav zchus.
    He had love in his heart because he was a pure neshama, one who never spoke loshon hora and always wanted to show respect and do the right thing. Laughter is the best medicine…

  8. An Open Letter to All,

    Dovid was always smiling and seemed to always be thinking about someone else’s needs before his own.

    Over these last two weeks since we’ve lost you, many people have been whispering to each other.

    “Did you hear, did you hear, do you remember Dovid Robbins? ohhhh noooooo!

    The shock of losing you and the warmth that touched us all, has left us all reeling with an emptiness that cannot be filled without you.

    How much we will all miss you and how much we have lost by never being able to sit next to you at a Shabbos table again is so sad.

    A Shabbos table with Dovid Robbins singing away zemiros with his whole heart and neshoma (in that special way that only Dovid could); was a Shabbos table to be remembered. Dovid always had a vort or gematria handy plus he knew how to tell it so that anyone could understand the message. Dovid loved to talk in public and speak words of torah or utter a special kindness about someone in the room. he was a tremendous makir tov and never shied from thanking anyone over and over – FROM THE BOTTOM OF HIS HEART.

    Ohhhh if only we could just have you, our dearest friend Dovid back again. Even in your petira, you LIVE and SHINE brighter than most of us ever have.

    There will be many who read the sweet things that so many have said about you on the different web sites and they might wonder if we are just exaggerating. So let’s try to set the record straight for those who lost out in meeting the special person that you were.

    Dovid wasn’t perfect; he would be the first to tell you that. He was human like the rest of us and at times acted like we all do – sometimes we are amazing and at other times, we wish we could have been better.

    What made Dovid so special was how he responded to the diversity of things that life threw his way. His emunah in Hashem was like the Rock of Gibraltar. He could never be shaken by anything thrown his way. Sure, at times he got frustrated, but when you take out a moment to examine how nearly everyone else would have responded to the challenges that Dovid faced, it is at that moment that it is most apparent that Dovid was a spectacular human being and ovayd Hashem unlike any other you might meet.

    Dovid was one of the kindest and sweetest people you would have ever met. Every Shabbos injected into Dovid a kedusha that carried him smiling through his week. Dovid in-turn injected back into the many homes he would eat by on Shabbos his unique charm and winning smile that announced “HOW GREAT IT WAS TO BE A YID AND TO BE ALIVE!”

    So when I think about Dovid’s cheerfulness and love for Torah and Hashem along with his ahavas yisroel, I can’t stop feeling sad for myself and the rest of us. Only after we lost you, did your sun shine brightest Dovid.

    The day will come when all will be revealed and we will find out who you really were in a previous gilgul (incarnation) I am sure you were a GIANT. The life you lived during your brief stay and the way you lived it was so unique, that it is clear to me that a neshoma like yours was probably sent back to this world not to complete its own tikkun, but rather to help so many of us become the best we can be.

    Perhaps, we didn’t appreciate you enough and didn’t deserve to continue to benefit from watching you conduct yourself in the simple and humble manner that was all your own.

    I read somewhere on-line how someone expressed that they felt you were “their Rebbe” in areas bayn odom lechavaro and bayn odom lemokom. How right they are – you lit up any room you walked into with a charm that was uniquely yours and your G-D given gifts with numbers and songs were always used to bring others a smile.

    So to all of you who never met Dovid Robbins, you missed meeting one of the finest young men around today. His love for all disarmed everyone he met and endeared him to people twice his age and standing. He knew how to make little children feel yummy and made them believe that Dovid was as young as they were and they knew he was special too.

    I will always cherish the times and laughs I had with you my good friend and I keep the flame of your memory burning in my heart everyday and know that you see us all now and wish us the best and will daven for us all.

    May Hashem bring both of your sisters Karen and Beth and their families a nechomah and may we all strive to be a little more like you every day….

    Amaaynn!!

  9. An Open Letter to All,

    Dovid was always smiling and seemed to always be thinking about someone else’s needs before his own.

    Over these last two weeks since we’ve lost you, many people have been whispering to each other.

    “Did you hear, did you hear, do you remember Dovid Robbins? ohhhh noooooo!

    The shock of losing you and the warmth that touched us all, has left us all reeling with an emptiness that cannot be filled without you.

    How much we will all miss you and how much we have lost by never being able to sit next to you at a Shabbos table again is so sad.

    A Shabbos table with Dovid Robbins singing away zemiros with his whole heart and neshoma (in that special way that only Dovid could); was a Shabbos table to be remembered. Dovid always had a vort or gematria handy plus he knew how to tell it so that anyone could understand the message. Dovid loved to talk in public and speak words of torah or utter a special kindness about someone in the room. he was a tremendous makir tov and never shied from thanking anyone over and over – FROM THE BOTTOM OF HIS HEART.

    Ohhhh if only we could just have you, our dearest friend Dovid back again. Even in your petira, you LIVE and SHINE brighter than most of us ever have.

    There will be many who read the sweet things that so many have said about you on the different web sites and they might wonder if we are just exaggerating. So let’s try to set the record straight for those who lost out in meeting the special person that you were.

    Dovid wasn’t perfect; he would be the first to tell you that. He was human like the rest of us and at times acted like we all do – sometimes we are amazing and at other times, we wish we could have been better.

    What made Dovid so special was how he responded to the diversity of things that life threw his way. His emunah in Hashem was like the Rock of Gibraltar. He could never be shaken by anything thrown his way. Sure, at times he got frustrated, but when you take out a moment to examine how nearly everyone else would have responded to the challenges that Dovid faced, it is at that moment that it is most apparent that Dovid was a spectacular human being and ovayd Hashem unlike any other you might meet.

    Dovid was one of the kindest and sweetest people you would have ever met. Every Shabbos injected into Dovid a kedusha that carried him smiling through his week. Dovid in-turn injected back into the many homes he would eat by on Shabbos his unique charm and winning smile that announced “HOW GREAT IT WAS TO BE A YID AND TO BE ALIVE!”

    So when I think about Dovid’s cheerfulness and love for Torah and Hashem along with his ahavas yisroel, I can’t stop feeling sad for myself and the rest of us. Only after we lost you, did your sun shine brightest Dovid.

    The day will come when all will be revealed and we will find out who you really were in a previous gilgul (incarnation) I am sure you were a GIANT. The life you lived during your brief stay and the way you lived it was so unique, that it is clear to me that a neshoma like yours was probably sent back to this world not to complete its own tikkun, but rather to help so many of us become the best we can be.

    Perhaps, we didn’t appreciate you enough and didn’t deserve to continue to benefit from watching you conduct yourself in the simple and humble manner that was all your own.

    I read somewhere on-line how someone expressed that they felt you were “their Rebbe” in areas bayn odom lechavaro and bayn odom lemokom. How right they are – you lit up any room you walked into with a charm that was uniquely yours and your G-D given gifts with numbers and songs were always used to bring others a smile.

    So to all of you who never met Dovid Robbins, you missed meeting one of the finest young men around today. His love for all disarmed everyone he met and endeared him to people twice his age and standing. He knew how to make little children feel yummy and made them believe that Dovid was as young as they were and they knew he was special too.

    I will always cherish the times and laughs I had with you my good friend and I keep the flame of your memory burning in my heart everyday and know that you see us all now and wish us the best and will daven for us all.

    May Hashem bring both of your sisters Karen and Beth and their families a nechomah and may we all strive to be a little more like you every day….

    Amaaynn!!

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