Well-known Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yekutiel Menachem Rapp, 66, was struck and killed Monday night by a hit-and-run driver in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (Yud-Beis Tamus, June 29.)
The rabbi was struck near the crosswalk on Empire Boulevard and Balfour Place while standing and waiting for a ride to the yeshiva, Crown Heights.info reported. According to the report, a livery cab driver struck the rabbi while reversing out of a parking spot.
Although emergency responders arrived immediately and rushed him to nearby Kings County Hospital, he passed away shortly after.
Rabbi Rapp served as a Mashgiach and Mashpiah (administrator and spiritual guide) in Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva in the World Lubavitch Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway.
The rabbi was a beloved and prominent figure in the community. He often quoted the views of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the importance of keeping Israel safe by refraining from negotiating land swaps for peace.
He is survived by his wife, Fayge, and their children Chaya Mushka Moskowitz, Chanie, Yossi and Shneur Zalman, all of Crown Heights. He is also survied by his elderly mother, who lives in Israel.
Baruch Dayan HaEmes.
ברוך דיין האמת
Baruch Dayan Hamet
Yossi words cannot express my pain for you your father was proud of you O love you Zaide Barru
B”DE–terrible loss
BD”E
Heartbreaking!!So very sad.What an evil
world!Praying for the family,with love from Sweden.
:/ May His memory be a blessing to all. Deeply saddened by this news.
Barukh Dayan ha Emet
Prayers!!
Our prayers for Rabbi from Connecticut !!!!!!
May his name be remembered!
We will pray for his soul, but I want to tell something very important in the Arab countries and in Egypt where I was born all my family from father and mother were very Jewish, realy ortodoks, but they facnever let their Jewish borders appear out of their clothes, and never when out of the sinagogues with their kipot. And believe me we were very Jews. The ladies also. So whay the Lubavitcher has to use everything out of their clothes to show their Judaism all over the world here in Brasil also.?
He was so young, this age is a time in life we should be enjoying our grandchildren our spouse’s .
alava shulim
WE WILL PRAY.
Our prayers for Rabbi.
move to Israel now before you have a heart attack or stroke or cancer.
It was NOT a hit and run!
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