I had no idea what I would speak about that Shabbos morning
Early Thursday morning on the tenth of Kislev, I was informed that Reb Shalom Dreyfuss had succumbed to coronavirus. Shalom was just 42 years old and left five orphan boys ranging in ages four to seventeen.
Besides the tragedy of the death and his leaving five orphans, Shalom was the baal korei of the shul. With over 25 years of experience, he was a baal korei par excellence. He had leined the entire Torah, and just this past Succos, he leined Koheles in the shul.
After hespedim in Passaic, Shalom was buried in Lakewood, and the family began their shivah. Shabbos morning, when the four oldest boys began to recite Kaddish together, there was not a dry eye in the shul. A cloud of sadness seemed to envelop the shul that Shabbos. However, life continues, and so must a shul.
That particular Shabbos was also the bar mitzvah of Ashi Traiger.
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