But the chessed for those who had been on the Rafiach did not end there.
Rabbi Piron and the members of the chevrah kaddisha reciting Keil Malei Rachamim for the deceased, after their remains were extracted from the ground
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Reb Shmuel’s son, Reb Yitzchak Beirach, related:
“I need to travel to Germany,” my father once said.
We were very surprised. “Germany! You never wanted to go step foot on that cursed land!”
“I found out that the son of one of the women who died on the Rafiach lives in Germany. He is not Torah observant. It pains me that her son never said Kaddish for her soul — especially after she was moser nefesh to get to Eretz Yisrael but did not merit to do so. On my way to do business in Belgium, I’ll fly to Germany to meet her son. Maybe I’ll be able to persuade him to say Kaddish at least once.”
When he returned, he told us that he had succeeded in locating the son, meeting with him, and explaining the importance of saying Kaddish for his mother’s soul.
The deceased from Syrna being buried in the cemetery in Haifa
A memorial event for the victims of the Rafiach: From right to left, Binyamin Kopmer, Reb Yaakov Daskal, Reb Shmuel, Gad Lasker
