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yet quickly shift to high, to soar and to fly. This past week was one of
intense sadness followed by joy as only can be felt in Israel.
his father, crying, screaming in despair. His dad, a 31-year-old father of
five, was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus. This vision will never leave me.
family and who was at the funeral and shiva of Evyatar. He experienced this shift from despair to hope.
mother of five, walked in. Friends who provided amazing warmth and strength
surrounded her. Then, in walked the three oldest children and I remind you the
oldest is seven.
the boys if I had Bamba or candy and then he said, “Did you know that my aba
was killed by a terrorist? My Aba has to sleep in a grave and the terrorist was
taken to a hospital.”
we all saw live and then in the newspapers hugging his dead father wrapped in a
tallit asking him to wake up.
people of Yitzhar where they live had total control and showed respect at the
funeral. I was wrongfully expecting them to be demonstrating, but they didn’t
and I saw a totally different side of them, breaking existing paradigms, at
least for me. There were 2000 people at the funeral according to the news
reports.
lunches for his five kids, fed them dressed them and took them to school, went to
the bus stop to wait for a ride to work where he was practicing for his next
play (he was an actor). Next a ruthless murderer stabbed him in the back, was
slightly wounded by the army and taken to a hospital.
got out of his car dragged him behind the bus stop said Kriyat Shema and closed
his eyes.
note, Evyatar z”l was always smiling. It was said by close friends that they
only saw him not smile twice and the second time was at his death.
came home to sit Shiva for one day in Hashmonaim. I brought him chairs from the
Bet Knesset Rimon to use for the Shiva. On Friday, Yehuda, his childhood friend
and myself took the chairs and passed them over the wall from his porch to mine
so that we can use them for a Shabbat Chatan (UFRUF) over Shabbat.
Elyada in Kfar Chassidim to tell him that it was a very symbolic act. His
brother spent his entire 31 years making people happy. It was so befitting that
the chairs we sat on at his Shiva is put over a wall to celebrate a new groom
to be.
The nation winces with the pain of this family. Senseless,
shocking, a loving young father is killed for being a Jew. We cry, yet we
continue living, our feet becoming more entrenched in this land.
A funeral and
a wedding. This is how we will survive.
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