Promising doesn’t begin to capture the trajectory of Eitam Henkin’s Hy”d, nascent career in Torah; destined for greatness” is more like it. The loss, and the memories., This Is Emes, This Is Yashar, And That’s It. ,Remembering Rabbi Eitam Henkin, Hy'd
Here he was coming from a yishuv called Dolev and I’m a yeshivahman from Lakewood. We were from such vastly different parts of the Jewish world yet he made sure we were immediately in the same world.
Lakewood yungerman Rabbi Daniel Osher Kleinman was on a mission to retrieve the Torah of great American posek Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin when he discovered that across the ocean Rav Henkin’s great-grandson a promising young dati-leumi Torah scholar was equally eager to restore his zeide’s neglected legacy. But the bond of friendship they formed was severed last Succos in a hail of bullets on a darkened road.
Everything he touched he was able to master. With Rabbi Eitam Henkin’s murder Rabbi Kleinman lost an invaluable partner and precious chaver.
It was the day after Succos a time when most people are readjusting to life as usual after a busy simchah-filled Yom Tov. But not Rabbi Daniel Kleinman. What had begun as zeman simchaseinu had midway through turned suddenly dark and foreboding and now on Isru Chag as he boarded a plane in New York he was still dazed crying silently within.
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