The funerals of four young men taken in the prime of life has left their families and the larger community reeling
The atmosphere at four consecutive levayos in Lakewood on Sunday was a mixture of agony and shock.
A stunned tzibbur gathered in the Lakewood High School gym, at nearby Sons of Israel chapel, and at Kamenetz of Lakewood to pay kavod acharon to four young men, snatched from their families’ embrace in the prime of their lives. Listeners clutched tissues, many rocking back and forth in their chairs in mourning.
Maspidim detailed how the niftarim were filled with simchas hachayim until the moment determined by Divine decree to recall them to Yeshivah shel Maalah.
“We must know, must believe, that this was the time,” several of the speakers emphasized.
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