Although she passed on Friday, the levayah— in a way only Hashem can plan— was delayed until Purim day
AT 3:20 p.m. on Friday, March 3, I suddenly saw them — a large contingent of Hatzolah vehicles amassing in front of my next-door neighbors’ home. As I rushed into the Jaffe home and up the steps to the second floor, I found Ephraim sitting and crying.
The tzaddikim of Hatzolah were doing their best. However, Esther Jaffe, 65 years old, and Ephraim’s wife of 40 years, had passed away in her sleep on Erev Shabbos Parshas Zachor.
I stood in front of her house as the minutes kept ticking away, and watched the sun setting below the houses. As I waited with the chevra kaddisha, my thoughts were focused on her passing just minutes before the onset of that Shabbos when we recall the genocidal intentions of Amalek.
Because Esther Jaffe was also a victim of Amalek’s murderous deeds.
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