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Shimshon Stock headed the Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov charity fund for thirty years. In the 1940s, he was a rambunctious teenager growing up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. One day, on the way to a ball game with his friend, he met the Rebbe. They didn’t expect it, but they then got a Torah lesson from baseball. (Late 1940s and Early 1950s)

Mr. Shimshon Stock headed the Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov charity fund for thirty years. As a teenager in the 1940s, he studied at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. During that time, he was privileged to study one-on-one with the Rebbe.