“If that’s what our Father in Heaven decided, then that’s exactly how it should be. I don’t for a moment ask myself why”
One son is still hospitalized in Jerusalem, and he intends to go visit him later this afternoon. At home, he has to take care of five children shattered by last Thursday night’s bus crash outside of Jerusalem’s Rav Shefa mall that took the lives of their mother and sisters.
Rabbi Dov, a rosh kollel in Ofakim leading 45 avreichim, is a grandson of Rav Binyamin Beinish Finkel, rosh yeshivah of Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem. His wife was the daughter of Rabbi Yaakov Alexander and Mrs. Esther Ehrenfreund, founders and leaders of the Ofakim chareidi kehillah.
“What can I say?” Rabbi Dov whispers faintly. “It really hurts.”
His children sit by his side, and he does his best to protect them.
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