Biography

Following severe complications at birth, Shmouel was declared stillborn. After five minutes of clinically confirmed death, the doctors managed to resuscitate him.

The consequences were immense. Nearly 99% of the grey cells of his brain were destroyed.

Mute, blind, paralysed, fed by a tube directly into the stomach, hospitalised many times over the course of his early years, Shmouel hovered between life and death on numerous occasions.

For years, his existence unfolded almost entirely in a private room of a specialised hospital, far from the world and from view. Alone with the doctors, the nurses and his mother…

To all, his future seemed already written.

At the age of five, after hearing about assisted writing, his mother contacted the association TMPP (« Ta Main Pour Parler » — Your Hand to Speak).

Against all expectations, Shmouel began to write.

For his mother, it was a profound upheaval. He whom they had believed incapable of communicating was suddenly expressing coherent thoughts, profound and at times unexpected.

Then one day, he wrote: « I want to see my Rav. »

Faced with this request, incomprehensible to those around him, his mother was put in touch with a Rav accustomed to accompanying disabled children who use assisted writing.

This encounter marked the beginning of a new relationship, on which the gradual unveiling of Shmouel’s message would come to depend.

For the first time, alone with her son, his mother began to write with him.

The first words overwhelmed her: « I love you, Mama. I am the guardian of the Torah. »

Then came words that would mark the whole of their lives:

Shmouel then declared that his coming into this world answered a specific mission.

Over time, he transmitted to his mother messages concerning Israel, Jerusalem, the nations, the Third Temple, the phase of purification of the people, the Gueoula and the future of the Jewish people. According to his mother and those close to him, he announced certain events before they occurred — notably, from the moment of François Hollande’s candidacy in the presidential election: « Hashem has chosen François Hollande. »

One day, after nurses had cut his hair, Shmouel wrote:

Guilgoul: the reincarnation of a soul according to Jewish tradition.

His mother, distraught and not understanding what was meant, looked into it and discovered that this referred to a vow of piety practised by some at the time of the Temple of Jerusalem. Two prohibitions were then observed: not to cut one’s hair, and not to drink wine.

Shortly after, in November 2011, when his mother decided of her own accord to begin observing Chabbat, he wrote to her after her second Chabbat:

Not quite understanding what Shmouel was telling her, he wrote to her one day: « You must read my Book. » Intrigued, his mother asked, « Which book are you speaking of, Shmouel? » He answered: « Samuel I and Samuel II. »

In 5772, Shmouel announced to his mother that he would soon leave the hospital in order to begin his work.

During this period, he asked to meet several people whom he himself identified to his mother. After these various encounters, he explained that he was still awaiting a seventh person, one he had never seen and whom his mother did not know.

Then, on the 15th of Av 5773, by providence indeed, Raphael David — without even knowing Shmouel, and having only three days earlier returned from Israel where he had just spent a year — came to him in his room.

It was then that Shmouel wrote to him as though he had always known him… Very directly, with these as his first words:

This encounter marked the beginning of a new stage and of Shmouel’s departure from the hospital, with the dissemination of his public messages over more than a year alongside his mother and Raphael David.

Until 2013, Shmouel refused to allow his messages to be made public.

Then, beginning with Rosh Hashanah 5774, he himself asked for them to be published: « So that each person may know and act with their free will. »

His messages were then transmitted to many communities and widely shared.

Among his words that have remained well known:

28 September 2013.

In 2015, at his own request, Shmouel made his Aliyah together with his loved ones.

Once settled in Israel, he asked to meet various great tsadikim in order to convey to them a personal message concerning the Gueoula.

He thus met, among others, Rav Haïm Kanievsky, Rabbi Amos of Netanya, Rav Yitzhak Ginsburgh and Rav Shalom Arush, who welcomed him with kindness and wonder, blessings being mutually exchanged.

These encounters deeply moved those who attended them, and they stand as one of the final great stages of his mission in Israel.

A few days before his departure from this world, Shmouel asked to go to the Kotel with his mother and one of his loved ones.

On the night of the 6th of Av 5776, he left this world.

He was twelve years old.

The writings, messages, testimonies and photographs preserved today constitute the legacy left by Shmouel.

For some, they bear witness to an exceptional story.

For others, they carry a spiritual message intended for our generation.

This site is dedicated to preserving this memory and to transmitting these archives in their original form, so that each person may discover them, study them and form their own understanding of this story.