“He was like a diamond. He was gold”
Menachem found a mirror image of himself when he got engaged this past Chol Hamoed to Hindy Rozmarin from Lakewood — a Gerrer family whose father grew up in Eretz Yisrael, a home steeped in chinuch and chesed. He went back to Eretz Yisrael with a bounce in his step as he looked forward to his chasunah, scheduled for after Succos.
His tragic petirah on Lag B’omer devastated both families.
“It looks like I was not worthy to have such a husband,” the kallah confided mournfully to a friend.
Menachem seemed to be born with a festive disposition — he was born on Hoshana Rabbah, became a chassan during Pesach, and was niftar on Lag B’omer. His father, Reb Dovid, from Moshav Komemiyus in Eretz Yisrael, was close to the Pnei Menachem and named his son for his rebbe; his mother is the former Tova Glick.
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