The author of the deed, Rabbi Eliyahu Keller shlita, recounts one of the most important Torah scholars in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Eliyahu Shlita was born in Argentina. His father, Rabbi Avraham Moshe, was born in Poland in 1933, and before the war his family moved from Poland to Argentina, where he lived for almost eighty years, and all their lives they grew up in Argentina, and although they raised their descendants in a foreign land, their dream was always to immigrate and establish the land of the Holy Land, at least at the end of their lives. And indeed, three years ago, his father, Rabbi Avraham Moshe Keller zt"l, was privileged to immigrate to the United States from Argentina at the age of heroism. After a short period of time, he settled in Neve Horim "Guardians of the Walls" in the city, where he managed his meticulous daily routine as he had done all these years.
One thing caught the attention of all who saw him: wherever he was, there was always the book "Shortening the Shulchan Aruch", which he studied every day. He adhered to his Torah and even taught it to others all his life. All his acquaintances knew: Rabbi Avraham Moshe and the book "Shortening the Shulchan Aruch" – they were true friends. About a month and a half ago, on the night of the 27th of Nissan 5780, in the evening, Rabbi Avraham Moshe zt"l passed away at the age of 87. During the Corona crisis, as is well known, funerals are held quickly, without many acquaintances. The family members asked to observe the custom of Jerusalem and bury him that same night. Indeed, the funeral time was set for 1:00 p.m. and was supposed to leave the Shamgar Funeral Home. During the pandemic, only five people arrive in the MK's car. In order not to endanger the entire regular minyan, in case they need isolation etc., and the family is supposed to recruit five more family members to accompany the deceased to the burial, so that there will be a minyan at the time of burial. Here the son Rabbi Eliyahu recounts the astonishing sequence of events that he witnessed:
We were only a few people from our family, and I, as my only son and son-in-law, who is a Cohen, said goodbye to him with a few words of farewell, because of the month of Nissan, which is forbidden to eulogize, and then I said the Kaddish, and they put my father's bed in the MK's car on its way to the Mount of Olives, to the section of the people of Jerusalem. The members of the Knesset came to check that there was indeed a minyan that would come with them for burial, because burial is not held without a minyan. It turned out that there was no minyan. It was the custom in Jerusalem that those who came out of the loins of the deceased did not accompany him to the cemetery after the funeral, and so I, as an only child, remained in Shamgar until they traveled and I could return home. The grandchildren are also not accompanied, and my two sons-in-law are priests who could not accompany them to the cemetery either. The third groom is currently in closed Argentina, leaving only four members of my sister's and her sons-in-law's immediate family, who are now living in Israel. Missing a tenth of a minyan... The MK members who saw this, told themselves that in this exceptional case they would deviate from their custom, and would ask one of the MK members to organize to join them and pass through him to join him at this late night, but they hesitated if they found
