Heart wrenching! How is this happening? Such a sweet good hearted yidel. I got to know him by davening numerous times at the later shachris minyonim in viznitz, Monsey. He was a person molei toichen, always with a smile and a good word or joke for any other yid. Especially for those weaklings those in need. I remeber many times how he stuck up for pepole who were "diferent" when they would daven before the omed in vizinitz and were treated not so nicely by some just for being "diferent".
Did he have any heart problems? I mean, he was a little heavy but he looked fine to me. I did see him several times on Friday an hour or two before the zman, already with his big volene talis koton at 7/11 buying a huge cup of coke (looked like a litter) and I was thinking once that this is bad for a person of his weight but I did not know of any heart issues. Did any one here know him personally?
Not often do I feel the pain, like I do now, for a person I really did not know on a very personal level but just obsereved his goodness from aclose.
Boruch Dayan Haemes