Rabbi Mordechai Dubinsky, from among the early chassidim of the Rebbe, a longtime mechanech, who sang on Nichoach recordings and served as a director in Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, passed away on Tuesday, 11 Menachem Av.

Rabbi Mordechai Hakohen Dubinsky was born on 8 Iyar 5689 (1929) in the Soviet Union, to Rabbi Moshe Dubinsky and Rivka.

On 25 Shevat 5695, when he was five years old, his family immigrated to Eretz Yisroel and settled in the Chabad community in Tel Aviv, where he absorbed the ways of chassidus from elder chassidim.

He arrived in New York on 22 Av 5707, as a bochur, and joined the yeshiva in the Frierdiker Rebbe’s chatzer.

During the period following Yud Shevat 5710, as the nesius passed to the Rebbe, he wrote letters to his friend Rabbi Uri Ben Shachar, in which he described the events of the time. In these letters, Reb Mottel Dubinsky, then a bochur in 770, documented the tense year following the histalkus of the Frierdiker Rebbe, and the hope and anticipation that the Rebbe would accept the leadership.

He married Sarah Pruss, daughter of Rabbi Chaim Shneur Zalman Pruss, on Rosh Chodesh Elul 5713 at the Gold Manor hall in Brooklyn. The Rebbe participated in the kabbalas panim and, and afterward served as mesader kiddushin at the chuppah.

For a short period, he worked for Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch in Newark, Boston, and Scranton.

After his marriage, he began working in chinuch and settled in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn.

He appears as a vocalist and soloist on some Nichoach recordings.

He served as a member of the executive board of Gan Yisroel International and as a mashpia in the Chabad community of Flatbush.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Dubinsky, and by his children, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Dubinsky, Sherman Oaks, California; Rabbi Zalman Dubinsky, Morristown, New Jersey; Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Dubinsky, Kensington, New York; and Mrs. Miriam Baras, Crown Heights, NY.

The Levaya will be held on Wednesday, passing by 770 at 1:00 PM, followed by kevura near the Ohel at 2:00 PM

Yehi zichro baruch

‘Vechol Karney’ featuring Rabbi Mordechai Dubinsky as vocalist: