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‘He was a pure soul’: Boy who fatally fell from window mourned
By Sarah Trefethen and Natalie Musumeci
June 2, 2016 | 5:34pm
Mourners carried the casket at a Thursday afternoon service of the 5-year-old boy who tragically plunged five stories to his death from a Brooklyn balcony. Photo: Paul Martinka
The 5-year-old boy who tragically plunged five stories to his death from a Brooklyn balcony was mourned at an outdoor funeral service Thursday afternoon as hundreds of black-clad tearful grievers surrounded the boy’s tiny casket.
Mourners joined the devastated family of Shimon Meisels, whose body was placed in a casket draped with a black cloth adorned with white Hebrew lettering and placed on a wooden table in front of a Williamsburg synagogue run by the child’s grandfather.
“You will meet your mother in heaven ,” said the boy’s distraught father Yoel Yakov Meisels at the packed Hasidic Jewish service one day
after the little boy’s death.
“Be sure to pray for the family and the rest of the children and their well-being in the future. These tragedies should never happen again,”
said Meisels, speaking in Yiddish, through tears.
“He was a pure soul. He was always busy learning or reading over Psalms,” the father, whose wife died two years ago, added.
The toddler’s grandfather, Herschel Meisels, the lead rabbi of the synagogue said, “God should give strength to the family to take away
the pain.”
Shimon was killed when he tumbled to the street from the balcony of his fifth-floor apartment on Wallabout Street in Williamsburg Wednesday at around 8 p.m., police said.
An ambulance rushed the boy to Brooklyn Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Members of Shimon’s family were home at the time of the fatal fall, cops said.
“A child goes straight to heaven. It’s just everybody here who is left in hell,” said neighbor Raizy Lichtenstein. “He was a regular five-year-old like any other. My kids played with him all the time. They didn’t sleep last night. They were crying, hysterical,” Lichtenstein added.
Neighbors said that the Meisels family moved into the apartment building just a few months ago and that little Shimon was the youngest
of six children.
“He was an adorable, loveable little child. He didn’t do anything any five-year-old wouldn’t do,” said Lichtenstein.
‘He was a pure soul’: Boy who fatally fell from window mourned
By Sarah Trefethen and Natalie Musumeci
June 2, 2016 | 5:34pm
Mourners carried the casket at a Thursday afternoon service of the 5-year-old boy who tragically plunged five stories to his death from a Brooklyn balcony. Photo: Paul Martinka
The 5-year-old boy who tragically plunged five stories to his death from a Brooklyn balcony was mourned at an outdoor funeral service Thursday afternoon as hundreds of black-clad tearful grievers surrounded the boy’s tiny casket.
Mourners joined the devastated family of Shimon Meisels, whose body was placed in a casket draped with a black cloth adorned with white Hebrew lettering and placed on a wooden table in front of a Williamsburg synagogue run by the child’s grandfather.
“You will meet your mother in heaven ,” said the boy’s distraught father Yoel Yakov Meisels at the packed Hasidic Jewish service one day
after the little boy’s death.
“Be sure to pray for the family and the rest of the children and their well-being in the future. These tragedies should never happen again,”
said Meisels, speaking in Yiddish, through tears.
“He was a pure soul. He was always busy learning or reading over Psalms,” the father, whose wife died two years ago, added.
The toddler’s grandfather, Herschel Meisels, the lead rabbi of the synagogue said, “God should give strength to the family to take away
the pain.”
Shimon was killed when he tumbled to the street from the balcony of his fifth-floor apartment on Wallabout Street in Williamsburg Wednesday at around 8 p.m., police said.
An ambulance rushed the boy to Brooklyn Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Members of Shimon’s family were home at the time of the fatal fall, cops said.
“A child goes straight to heaven. It’s just everybody here who is left in hell,” said neighbor Raizy Lichtenstein. “He was a regular five-year-old like any other. My kids played with him all the time. They didn’t sleep last night. They were crying, hysterical,” Lichtenstein added.
Neighbors said that the Meisels family moved into the apartment building just a few months ago and that little Shimon was the youngest
of six children.
“He was an adorable, loveable little child. He didn’t do anything any five-year-old wouldn’t do,” said Lichtenstein.