Jerusalem – Twenty Holocaust survivors belatedly celebrated their coming-of-age Monday in a moving Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall. The men had all turned 13 during the genocide of Europe’s Jews and were hard-pressed to survive, let alone celebrate.
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According to Arutz 7, One survivor relayed that his coming of age had been marked in the Therensienstadt concentration camp. His mother managed to obtain a set of tefillin, and an elderly Jewish man spoke in Hebrew. “I was alone there,” he said. “Today, 80 years later, I have a bar mitzvah with my family.”
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I’m truly inspired by these old timers…lot to learn from them…
Today if we don’t have the perfect home or marriage we somehow rebel and these people lost everything, saw their family getting killed in front of their eyes yet all the wanted was to put on Tefilin and have their Bar-Mitzvah…
i only hope that if they were not putting on tfillin daily up to and until now, they begin to do so daily
Wow!!! i wish i would have known about this…i would have flown out there in a heartbeat!!
The Heavens are singing!! (in my opinion)
Mi k’amcha YISROEL goy ECHAD b’aretz