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Levaya of R' Chaim Tzvi "Chatzi" Katz - Tzom Gedalya 5785 - Oct. 6 2024 - Ben Torah, Singer & Artist
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Chatzi was Niftar on Rosh Hashana 5785. He was 28 and single, orphaned from his mother from age 16. You can contribute to the Sefer Torah being written as lasting memory here: https://bit.ly/ChatziSeferTorah
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left side of the building with air
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I
do love
you beloved by
everyone you did so many
people just look
around see
how to
you you know I
see you was the apple of my
eye you know how much I loved you I
loved you to no end
your love and your Devotion to me is
unbelievable you called me every night
for the last 10
years and every night you s off saying
good night I'm I love you for 10
years going to miss you good night love
you a few weeks
ago I was in bed for a few days with
pneumonia you called me you heard me
coughing in the background over the
phone and you kept asking me over and
over I'm are you okay are you sure
you're okay I think you were concerned
for my health much more than you were
concerned for your
own was a
phenomenal some the biggest I've
known remember as a young child
best of his
peers his his learning
when never I sat down to learn with
him he had a ra in two
minutes much quicker than I
did
learning told me last night that I'm
would tell
him he doesn't hold the I don't think my
father would like
this I remember him telling me with
SP
about it says that if he'd walk by
some he could wait for an hour or more
he to
walk he spoke SP he says he was so for
real he
was
that's and his Hearts came through in
the
singing everyone
knew the sing
uplifted the island wherever he went
with the
singing Somebody told me was
a he said it
wasn't like he said the I got from
them they brought him over the summer to
Camp of good in Toronto for see
him I heard from someone he heard from
the camp director
that he said in all the years he's there
for years and years in Camp he said
never had such a such a night in Camp
like I had tonight he was such a he all
the years I never had such a
night had
tremendous his understanding of people
was M
Beyond had every
everyone he understood people his
perception of of everything going
on and whatever was his his
understanding his his perception was M
beyond the
normal the amount of friends he had was
Unreal often I'd call him and tell me AB
I call you back later I'm with a friend
now I'm with a friend now was like
almost a joke by me every night I'm with
friends I'm with a friend now I'm with a
friend and some many friends I was
to know his friends but I just know from
every day whatever he was I'm friend
going out with a friend I'm talking to I
call you
back need NE
nephews M's beloved Uncle told them you
know how to relate to every child he how
to raise each each kid and you know how
to relate to each
one
his never did anything had a he called
me to ask me told ask
as every child he had didn't do
asking everyone
knows had
singing became very
popular his favorite jobs were always to
have he told
me said there's nothing like the energy
of singing he said there's nothing like
it nothing compare he favored that over
the most expensive jobs that he get by
big Veer but to play to
sing he said that there's nothing like
that you became
a the
I just heard
today he was supposed to sing tonight
for a gathering for
links I thought you can feel for your
you know what it
was I know it's very difficult for
you
was I have to
ask for not having been able to provide
you
you a home with the warmth that only a
mother can
provide I imagine that was
Ace for some things that you struggle
with
that like ask for you for not having
done enough for you in other ways
another I could have done more
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is a tremendous
Lord I'd like to say to my
daughters if they gave us
this it's because he knows
you a test knows where a person's
holding he gives it to someone who he
knows has the for something and if a
person brings out his he gets
more she gives him an opportunity to
bring
out CH us you
have I say about
you should chose you to be the
people what me
I'd like to
give they
did was a life changer for him when he
came
here has became Thea
invested
tremendous we saw the payers and think
about the
Investments I'd like to also thank the
multitude of
friends with such good of friends all
the years that was Mish his life the
last years
was like to also thank the B that were
with him over shabas state
the whole night last
night to you
all I also like to thank my brother-in
sister
andler for providing a home
for on a constant basis for many many
years he had an Open Door by you always
he felt so comfortable by
you like a mother for all these years
they should you fly for all you
did
for go join m
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die the day
that to the great day
K rash p
look around the best MERS this
morning and one person comes to my
head
pocket you pocket
it's a void that is already
felt it's a void that we know will never
be
filled what is this void the void
obviously is the best friend the person
could have as
I
as someone who's so sensitive so caring
to every single person's
needs but really
Yeshiva what's missing to me the
Yeshiva is learning with him and
learning from
Himi was and we knew
this he was as a
being and his only
sh and he was show it
with every bit of his slave in
aish he
was he wanted to be
a he wanted to be a person who knows on
every step what
is and how
I this was so him it was so essentially
him
from this
came at most that
showed what it means the
determination really Aus really Aus
uncommon unusual
Aus that no matter what no matter when
he had to belong to Yeshiva he had to be
part of Yeshiva he had to identify with
Yeshiva he had to learn Yeshiva for many
years many years he was here all day
he got a little busy he cut the two he
cut the one but one thing is for sure he
was an action in a way that cannot be
described he belongs
here M like thear
says he woke up in the morning and he
would say to himself he a you
know I'm going to go here I have to take
care of this I have to go here and the
says
his feet carried him by themselves to
his real place to the place that he was
and the place that he
belonged
always to learn with him
also
said
really a natural
lambon lambas came to him naturally
he had Aus in learning he got from his
father and he always quoted his
father and his idea of what it means to
be
a
Lear
Le Lear all
together madei a pleasure to learn with
years we learned second s
years Ki was I would call him a truth
detector to learn
anything to learn anything
just to finish to just learn didn't
exist in his world he
couldn't he couldn't to say that was a
good but in his mind wasn't or worse it
wasn't what they would say yes it wasn't
Lear wasn't n it was not
n didn't exist he sat and learned
he chewed and he chewed and he chewed
and after he finished he was always
convinced that he didn't understand
it that's missing what's missing thus
also is a a
model of a
hearts that is
filled the
overflowing with the Rick
shes he wasn't just emotional
his heart was
filled he filled he was a a
of unpacked un
filled people saw this in his singing he
wasn't just the
singer his his his feelings his mus came
pouring out and no one had a choice but
to come along with
him you saw it that way we saw in the
way that as much as he tried to hide it
the way he spoke about the the way he
spoke about how
much how much
years how much utter perfect covet he
had the
plenty of everyone knows
that this depth this nephesh which is
endless this kishin which is beyond
description this Godless of sh for this
Godless of knowing what he should be
what he wants to be sometimes made it
very
difficult sometimes that itself caused
problems
as but he never let go of them you never
let go of
them you pushed and you pushed and you
insisted you know who you
are and you know where you want to
be I want to say one
word very B the
says a good
thought he adds it he joins
it angle brings down he learns it from
one of
the he says that
the that if you have a person that
who's but you know as clear as can be
that if he would be here you know
exactly what he would
do he just can't do it it
now but you know what he would do
there's no doubt about that if you do
the you
join it's as if he's doing it you're
connecting to him you have more strength
but you doing him the biggest favor we
all know exactly what he would do if he
would be today here today
you got
me you're going to be we going to miss
you terribly
wasn't but I want to say something one
thing I want to tell
you Andi in your characteristic way it
was always a between us that you can't
stand you know you tap a guy on the
shoulder you put your arm around the
shoulder you couldn't stand
that I'm not giving you now I would
never do that but I want to read to you
words of the
arah he
says the
he says mitzvas have two parts a person
has to want to do them plan to do
them but then a person for to be a full
SCH has to actually do
it he
says and he doesn't do it or he doesn't
do it in this case as much as your Great
shus War you did you did an enormous
amount more than more than most people
know in learning in
staging but the amount that you always
felt that you're
missing he
says you shouldn't be worried to think
that he says
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when takes a
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person now now you be the one that you
want to
be now you be the that you would respect
as
a
now that you would
appreciate for your family so devoted to
you for your father
and for your family hearing your
sh oh so close we all love you so
much we all appreciated you but for sure
not enough I want to ask m
m a person as big as
you we have to ask M we wereit or we did
worse we didn't understand if we didn't
know what we should do please
ask
there two
right now I can't heart's
broken the cup can't faom it can't
process how could it be with standing
here
The Cry of of a
a part of my heart a part of all of
heart how could we not cry how we all
not cry about this tremendous
a someone who's so old so to all of
us tremendous bishin
had a
true and in truth above and beyond
everything else what he truly valued
what he respected what he treasured was
it
was L such was his AR that we always
heard came out on a daily basis his AR
for his father was
tremendous because it hit that Benchmark
that's that's that was EMS that's what
he valued
we all saw we all saw the in
learning
theas the have a be and the when he felt
he had
thein not just the
learning but Atif men in every aspect a
Bas who understood so deeply who felt so
deeply who cared for everyone so deeply
he went through so
much and face such great challenges but
in spite of all the challenges he worked
hard to live to do what he had to do
with a
smile and he succeeded he succeeded to
the point that most people just viewed
him as a happy person who always made
them happy
how can you not cry when talking about
someone who felt others suffering so
deeply he couldn't handle other people's
sufferings their suffering was his
Suffering The Suffering of others hurt
him to the death of
his he ran away from any from any
disagreement no one ever heard say a bad
word about
anyone his his Focus was to make others
happy to think what he could do to
improve someone else's
life and he worked with every bit of
himself to hide his s his
challenges always with aim always with a
smile but in hisas in his we saw the
thite we saw the we saw the we saw and
heard and F
the and the middle of this this which he
was engaged
went came
down whose AR
was he stood
came who worthy for
that the middle of the but you're still
standing in theas
the continue the
for your father who wasn't M from a
second your father who you valued and
respected from your family that you
so all your
friends for us
we're
asking if we P you if we didn't do it
not for
you catch later
said
took away a
carbon in the prime of his
life because of
our we' have seen him
flourish the great aspired to be like as
mentioned
we decided to take a
carbon on this Su carbon
a
car rain
purified
by none of us will ever know the extent
of the that he went
through there's a
special that is shown by
on the
M that
says different ways to explain the
Mna
says that is a
famous had to
find and says that the wouldn't have
been such such
a if it be all sik would suffer all
would have sh wouldn't be such a but the
that we find some suffer and some don't
some some
don't
knows which people are Ro
does not people somebody who he
knows and not to mentioned who is Roy
from such a person is
because mentioned and mentioned was a
chrisan
learning I experienced it
once one time many years ago when he was
young 20 or
21 I gave him a
ride from mon to
Lakewood and I was learning subus then
he was also learning subus in
Yesa and we spoken learning come out the
whole way from the whole trip toour trip
I think it was
a I wasn't spoil from his
had a race in I thought then this B
could be on par with
any when he was 20 years old I was SPO
from the godles and the
the
and mention
chose to embark on a little different
course than his father Bo not envisioned
for him
perhaps and with the
and who understood that the way is to
encourage
him in his embarking on a side on a side
Z besides
which a side thing which was to
be not understood even though maybe
that's not what he would have envisioned
but he understood that's what he wanted
and we have to give God credit to who
the and encouraged him and not
encouraged him to the extent that saw
that encouragement and
reciprocated with
a a love to a father which is out never
found
anywhere to the extent I don't know too
many other fathers that have that close
connection with the children that was
because he saw his father's to encourage
him and what he wanted to do what he
thought was the best thing for him and
that's the of father
with to encourage his son the way was
best for
him to a father like that which not
everybody
to as was mentioned was people it was
not to mention it was not it
was I heard just this
morning that his was m in the middle of
the N was going up the steps to
and he was in middle
of this all the that he had to combine
be able to combine both worlds
both he had as was explained by as was
elaborated by
and and which all is as was mentioned
before
we see from the many many which came he
was we have to mention
also that RAB rabit
G that in the short time that she knew
him was to establish a very close
connection
with which is also
a on
her which en to do
that again I'm also going
to I'm also going to duplicate not
mentioned about the Cent family how they
were Mish they gave up so much for him
and they made him home away from home
after his mother was
lifter and of course his siblings
and the spouses you took care
of you took care of him as only loving
sisters who were together who went
through so much together could
understand and you made a life for
him that you should be
should
and for your father
and and for your rest of your siblings
for
iMed for
the for the here andita
everybody say there's so much to
say but
this but this really only one thing to
say
two days
ago CL Israel all over the
world lay in the pass of
the because we
know is what carries CL throw through
the Y
had rash she says that after
the had any of us
known that this year
would be requested
an that was UN
unfathomable an AA that was
reciprocated and that every single
conversation ended with I love you Aba
so that he should be a
carbon had had any of us
known a year
ago a month
ago three days
ago how would we have
cried how would we have
begged and how would we have
stormed that if you can't if we're not
able to avert this
G then at the very
least to postpone
it to postpone it
until knew
better and so
now all that we can do
is what we were taught by our parents
and our
Rebellion we bow our
heads and we
say
the talks about
the there's a that
every has to include
sh every has to include the name of
the we have to
say and the B J asks over there that
the
the we don't
mention and according to
the that is
not why is why is there no mention of
malus
and the
says since we mention in
this is the one who creates
the and he inserts the in the
Goof and then the takes the from the
go and the is going to return
this we would have been able to
be in the way of
wanted that should
be that we should
be by reinforcing
the and may I
ask may I ask the entire Tira to please
please say along with me El
calls a man
I saw once in the name of
RA Raa once
said that when it happens that a person
is taken away
suddenly in a way
that people didn't even have the
opportunity to D
Ina said that it could be it could be
that it's
because this is needed in
sh this and this of this are needed in
Shay we know the ra says that the
of it goes according to
the
sadic and the ram says that the doesn't
count mitv he doesn't counts he weighs
them and the ram says that the measure
of this
is has a
scale and this measured in the Mish
of say
nobody nobody could
fathom nobody has an
inkling of what it takes
for
aim who was
a what it takes for a
yosim who never fully recovered from the
tear of his
mother what it takes for such a y to
take his
heart and turn it
outwards and to become
a being other people like the says
B nobody has an inkling what that
takes and no one could measure
that that's a that could be
measured
only only only in
the says we say in
what we think we're going to live
forever that a
person who sang to
the the way he should a person who said
Hal in his
lifetime the way he should doesn't stop
after his n
every every he gets up and he continues
saying
says when he carries through a mishpat
he doesn't care how it affects the other
people
but and everybody everybody who affected
by the Mish of the that goes into
the and
so may we
ask may we ask that this
carbon should be considered a carbon
seore
a for
that they should to see the of
the may this carbon be a
carbon
for for who the
name has been part of the for years
may this carbon be a carbon
seore
for like we say in
the may this carbon be a
carbon for cl
Israel so many so many
and so many so
many on him
har mayor will be speaking over the
phone
for e
saying
that they hard to say
anything remember my father over s came
back from
I
after after my sister star he came back
and he
sayses
mes hard to understand
Cas to you don't understand
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we don't need we're not looking for
we're not trying to figure
out and
here is
we don't even
realize person
has we take everything for granted we
have and go there
used to tell us to
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say and he would
say just scream
came to
Detroit he wasn't wasn't met him in New
York wasn't
he came here to Detroit is not a person
in Detroit who's not who who's not his
friends I person doesn't have with
them
says
learn
and learn
was
he and they asked him how could you say
you only learned one
thing you said you
learned so he told him I learned
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and he went to took him six months he
learned only
one but he learned
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there's
no
after what
you got to D make sure you don't get
hurt by
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the the muscle was a a pile of
stones P out one of the
St is not
aain so what's in this Stone a different
Stone
pull out
one and he BR out
his that no other no other y can bring
out that a person has understand
mil it says came to
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told
him was
not and abig told her told
him that
if nobody
is doesn't
feel
only
understand I don't know if we can
say I don't know if we could say that we
understood
three but I know that he wasn't a he
wasn't I I don't think I ever called him
but me
he's never
never that's the to
realize every kid every little child
every person how old we are Let's Make a
Difference how every every jle is as as
a
to be able to bring it out make it out
Sor to
mod tired
he the biggest title someone
could however
long where was he where was he the were
saying the he had of becoming a
that's that was his most that he still
planned on becoming that
he able to see from time to time heed
anded says that a person has to make a
what he what he could deliver to what
what's the M that he could
then he
says what he could accomplish what he
could deliver he should
do and what he can't what he can't
from there's
another another
another he says
that he has he has all
those was the opposite extreme he had so
many pum not real what we would call pum
had so many ways that he could have he
could have he recently started his
career extremely successful
music that's a way he could have left
yes he
could so many years so many that we
don't even know for so many years he had
so many ways to pull him and push him
off even after a successful career in
music a very successful career but it
didn't it was he
was this is where he
was that he with
the that he picked
was wasn't too often it becomes Li not
like that held his his music wasn't an
art of music was he was people someone
said over similar stories already camped
he was recently by in the last day of
camp 280 B the the the manager y was
saying he never all the years he never
saw Z for two and a half hours he had B
he said all the that you could sing
in his you show that with you don't have
to write away from the the
whole and and he knew this he someone
once asked him he couldn't make it an
event they asked him to send a
substitute he he told he told this
us he said I'm
sorry maybe in in the the clay yeah but
that's not what I'm delivering I'm
delivering the whole whole package and
to bring him don't bring singers
people we already
heard they really spoke about so much
the
hearts go on and on pushing to go right
the end
how many times
heow to take a portion he stayed over
time because he ate a POR in the
middle he wasn't
sing the whole
year was on this full display where did
he
take and
for his father was already mentioned his
father father and every he had a good
very well his father I heard from him
when he was young 156
but that was
his he saw
and just mention one thing about his
father was
father this between over here was
was asking before that he was in a
according to what I saw he
was knew that was Mar that
[Music]
to you I
know I know you don't want me to say
anything
you were always Sor for other people you
held
suffering with your big
heart we were we were all s sely for you
we were when you were alive
now it reached to this
[Laughter]
point everyone already said unbelievable
things I don't have so many new things
to
say but I was definitely witness so many
times how he fought with himself he
could talk one minute as if he's going
to listen to his
Yara and then and then and then say how
he's not going to and he's going to do
the
opposite because he would find names for
it guilty
conscience OCD whatever he would call it
but bottom line is is that he had a he
had a fear like like like likees said he
had a fear of of being he had a fear of
doing
a that definitely
came definitely came from his
father I remember one time this is
probably 10 years
ago that uh we were standing in line
somewhere some trip or something and uh
I don't even remember what I did but he
he he he gave me a horrified criticism
that I'm making
a
he he was terrified of
making he was terrified of taking money
not
honestly we just started talking last
time you were you were you were
bias
about and how you were criticizing that
people don't know
don't know what they're doing don't know
the you understood
people I think I think it might be true
to say that you had the whole mind and
hearts of your father and the whole mind
and hearts of your
mother both together
we knew that you're the one who who had
the right understanding when there was
different ways of looking at
something we always said that you're
going to have the right way to look the
right
understanding and the way you gave so
generously Bas beser not trying your
hardest to avoid people
knowing and like Ravid already
said
that with everything he did and
combining the the SAR the the that that
he that he experienced every day of his
life the no doubt in my
mind that he was that he was bikim
in terms of of who he was and yet like
says he was signed in the other safer
just so that he could get
El there story there mat
said strange story in a way but a Bak
came to him once M Kipper and said he
was crying andio said what's going on he
said that I did a crazy thing he said
that he felt like he did such a good
chuva that he said that he wants to die
right now that's what he said on him
Kipper and he was crying obviously that
he takes it back buto said that of
course even though he did a crazy thing
buto said that the thought was a good
thought what could be better than going
pure and I have no doubt no knowing how
how his attitude to
Y he
definitely he definitely went as
a
and and the
should should
give and all the siblings
all go accept this
Gaz this 11 year long
re we Klein
I don't have
words in my
head sorry I have thoughts in my head
and feelings in my
heart but words that I can't
speak it wasn't very long
ago we were
talking and you asked me just just tell
me what what do you what are you trying
to
say and I said I I I I'm trying to say
I'm trying to give you I'm trying to
give it
over you said just feel it feel it and
say what you
feel every time that he
spoke you knew that's what he felt there
wasn't I'm telling you this but I feel
something else or I'm I'm telling you
this because I want to make you feel
good but around your behind your back
I'm going to say something totally
different no no no he said what he meant
and he meant what he said and he felt
every single
word one of the first interactions I had
with him was with regards to my
v and we were smoing and he says what
day you thinking you're going to have
your vard and I said I don't know I
think it's Sunday and he says please do
me do me a
favor this say the mid that's happening
the mere
dinner I really really want to go he
says please don't make me choose either
your
V or going this
m so was either your
sister or this
my and if you're the one I have to
choose
it didn't want to make me make him
choose
either and looking across at all the
people
here people that considered him a true
Brother people who felt a connection
to you made a choice for
us we all are here
because you touched
us on a way
that that can't be put into
words and that was what you did you took
feelings how gous and you put them into
the
words I think you gave
me first time you sat down and you
played for me
pre-release a song
and we got to one point and he says
before I want I want I want to give you
something I want to explain to you
something he say you're going to laugh
at this this canich and those that are
here that were involved in it know what
I'm talking about he says I had to give
had to give leave over with
something and he
says it was the song
it was a
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herish and
now you chose your mind
something been mely sure cuz I don't
have anything more to say
Hy I'm just be
short on behalf the entire
Yeshiva on behalf of all your friends
that are
here something that I know something
that I don't
know is the reason why you have a big L
is a reason why L is in
you loved every Bak you loved every
younger man you loved every rebi you
loved every
ship most all
you you love
Theus they did everything for
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you I think I can say I never ever
heard one night one not nice thing from
your mouth but anyone you knew so many
people and you knew a lot of things but
you never ever put one someone
down I think if you were here right now
you are all you want from your friends
from Yesa is to do something for
you no you didn't like it when people
did things for you but at the end of the
day I think years
we'll never forget
you everyone should take something upon
themselves something
small that they can remember Andi will
never be forget forgotten
better
I know it's late I don't want to hold up
the I just want to
say a couple of minutes and ask M from
the entire music industry as you would
say if we
didn't do enough or we didn't help you
enough or for me personally I spent the
whole PES together
with the the heart that he had everying
there's not one single person that left
speaking to him without a
smile and he loved singing so much this
was his avoid this was this was with
tkid he knew
this this was his high as tkid and he
knew he was going to sing and help bring
so many people
and I just speak spoke to one of his
friends saying that he when he right
before he collapsed he sat down on the
steps and he started singing he didn't
have no he knew he wasn't feeling
well you continue singing going up to go
to sh and sing because we know the power
you know the power of
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Go for for your family
and for the ultimate
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for for
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Shiva will be at 8 C field Circle shakas
will be at 7:30 M will be at 6:00 and me
at
9:00 kuura will be on Brook Road
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