Editing Chaim Mordechai Isaac Hodakov (section)

==== Complete Faith in the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach ====
In the winter of 5753 (1993), he would participate every Friday night in prayer in the Rebbe's minyan and at its conclusion would go out together with the other secretaries to the balcony behind the Rebbe, standing out among the secretaries themselves in singing and dancing to "Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu V'Rabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach L'olam Va'ed" according to the rhythm of the tune and the Rebbe's encouragement. This was also the case on rare occasions during the week, such as on Purim.

Until the last moment of his life, he maintained his famous clear-mindedness. Three days before his passing, he signed the salaries of the members of the Kollel Avreichim under the Rebbe's secretariat and the workers under him, and did not leave one thing unfinished. Also, about a month before his passing, he was the mesader kiddushin at his granddaughter's wedding.

He passed away on Friday night, 3 Iyar 5753 (1993), at the age of 91, and was buried in Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York.