"All I’ve been given in This World is nothing compared to the faith I learned from a rock"
Moussa Chacham-Tzedek, a wealthy Persian businessman who’d been diagnosed with a terminal illness, had a secret he wanted to share before he died, and it was related to a mission entrusted to him after he’d already saved his brother from the Revolutionary Guard: smuggling a group of teenage boys out of Iran. As he continued his story, I sensed that he was about to reveal a part of his life that haunted him until now. PART III
Amu Moussa’s tears began to fall as he spoke about the one pair of tefillin the group had, smuggled out by a boy named David.
The tefillin belonged to David’s uncle, who was killed when the mob murdered dozens of Jewish men at a beit knesset in Tehran.
“I am telling you my story because I am afraid it will be lost,” Amu Moussa said, wiping his eyes. “I’ve watched two generations of my family grow up and have yet to tell them about it.”
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