Mumbai – Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg and his wife Yehudit boarded a plane on Monday together with their two-year-old grandson Moshe Tzvi and his Indian babysitter Sandra Samuel to return to Israel. Also aboard the flight were the bodies of the little boy’s parents, Rabbi Gavriel and Rebetzin Rikva Holtzberg and four other Jewish victims of the Mumbai massacre.
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The flight, which is expected to arrive in Israel Monday night, left Mumbai earlier in the day after ZAKA personnel carefully boarded the coffins containing the bodies on to the plane.
Four of the coffins were draped with Israeli flags, while two were covered in prayer shawls only, in accordance with their families’ wishes.
The funeral for Rabbi Gavriel and Rebetzin Rivka Holtzberg has been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. and will begin at the 770 Center in Kfar Chabad. A procession then will set out from the Chabad town to the Mount of Olives, where the couple will be laid to rest, as was their older son approximately two years ago, when he died of an illness at the age of three.
The times for the funerals of the other four victims have not yet been announced.
Righteous people come in all colors and religions.
Imagine how much more pain we’d be in if not for the actions of the nanny to save Moshe.
at least the parents will have a kaddish
I cant take much more – I cant bear it. It is too painful for words. May Heashem heal our wounds
TOO MUCH PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AD MOSAI !!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE LET US ALL STAY UNITED SO THAT THEY WILL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN-
THIS BROUGHT KLAL YISROEL TOGETHER AND PLEASE PLEASE LET US ALL STAY AS ONE FROM NOW ON.
THE FACT THAT THEY WERE THE ONES TO BRING US ALL TOGETHER AS ONE SHOWS WHAT GREAT NESHOMOS THEY HAD!!!
I HOPE MOSHIACH ARRIVES BEFORE THE PLANE LANDS!!!!!
if any of you are a pshchologist can you please comfort me and explain to me what is going through moshele’s mind at 2? how long will it take him to get used to his new parents? and will he be able to grow up normal and happy?
does anyone now who will raise this special child?
i can’t sleep, eat, or do anything for taht matter… this boy consumes all my thoughts and prayers…. all day im mumbling his name moshe tzvi ben rivka to have a nechama and bracha v’hatzlacha.
everytime i see this moishele that was left so tragically with out his parents i cant help it but feel like crying for him this poor kid his parents got torn away from him for no good reason just because some sickos fantasize that they talk allah f u all may you rot in hell forever and ever let everyones worst nightmares be the least of what you and your family should suffer and i hope the mussad will take care of their lovely families wherever they live weather in pakistan or anywhere give then hell and as far as moishele goes i will do whatever i can to help that poor child and i will donate money for him i just cannt stop crying when i see him.
Thank you for your inspiring words and comments and thorough coverage.
May we stay b’achdus always!
I lost one parent at a very young age and can not imagine what Moshe will go through. Luckily he has his grandparents and Klal Yisrael to comfort him.
to FFR & Klal Yisroel
HKB”H only give us what we can take!
Yiddishkeit is what HKB”H was MiTzoVeh us, not what we think !
most opinions here are from the Boich !!
it is time no time is better than now that we all should add decisively in saying good things abt yidden AND to speak less negatively and just to change the subject besides actions speak louder then words soo add in giving challahs mitzvos not lashon hara do it for the bodies!
I am sitting on my chair and im crying
Yidden!
It is obvious to many of us and I pray to you as well that we are about to be pulled from this exile momentarily, for the pain we all have now is at its greatest, like the pain just prior to birth.
Hold on! Strengthen yourselves. Learn more. Love more, give to, teach, and encourage others.
nebach!!!!!!!!!!!what a vtragatuy
sitting at my desk and all i did today was cry and cry some more everytime i think about little moishele or the kruman children they are the worst off may their familys see only nachas and simcha from them and may klall isroel be zoche to see the geula any day now
Moishele will IY”H be raised by the grandparents – the parents of Rivka.
We are all sitting with tears in our eyes, how can we not. But now is the time to say to ourselves ‘What can we do to make the world a better place, what can We do to be a better Yid’
These people died Al Kiddush Hashem, they died because they are Jews. These were people whose whole purpose in life was to help a fellow Jew.
I humbly believe that we should all look at this tragedy and say to ourselves WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
Lets all do one more act of kindness and one more mitzvah in their honor.
Don’t let the feelings you are feeling now pass by you and tomorrow we will forget, lets seize the moment and DO SOMETHING GOOD!!!
May Hashem see our suffering and bring Moshiach Now, we need him more than ever
Hashem Yirachem!! Please Hailiger RBS”O, please take us out of this bitter golus!!
G-d Almighty!
I sit here, at my computer desk, and hear and the cries of Moshele, crying: Ima! Ima!
My heart breaks and my tears flow freely.
Hashem! We are Your children. We are crying: Abba! Abba!
Avinu Malkenu!
If the cries of Moshele breaks our hearts and moves us to tears
– we who have only limited human compassion – surely You, Hashem, who is The Epitome of Compassion, Kel Rachum Vchanun, surely you must be crying with us.
Almighty G-d, please, have Rachmanus on us already! Dai Golus!
Please stop hiding from us. Please send the Geulah Shlaima. Wipe off the tears from Moshele, and from all the yesomim of this horrific massacre.
The nanny is a tzeddeekais and an erliche frau and should be given koved
I understand that all of you were touched by this tragedy but if you come to think about it one should be more emotioned when we here of some 80 or 90 year old that passed away. for unlike this tragedy, which rarely occurs, the latter is what will probably happen to all of us
#21 Beautifully Said.
To watch the clip of Moishe’la crying for his mother is heartbreaking!!
We are all heartbroken. May Hashem put a stop to our suffering with the coming of Moshiach BB”A.
Moishi will have a chance to grow up strong and proud with the knowledge of what heros his parents where, what special people they were. We are litvish and never thought to respect lubavitch but now I and those around us see, look at the lives we live secure within our kehillos, what sidkus to go out as shiluchim, face the isolation, the insecurity, of living where t hey go. I just looked at the Lubavitch web site and saw what it says about chabad house in Mombai and what they ‘are’ offering (before their chorbun). It will make you cry. May Hashem protect, strenthen and heal Moisi’s pain and all the families who have lost loved ones in this. I feel such enormous respect now for Lubavitch, I wish my eyes had been opened earlier. Tizku l’mitzvos.
#26 – your thinking is a bit skewed, to say the least. Ever hear of דור הולך ודור בא? The “normal” way of the world is that the elders pass away before the children. They have lived a full life, hopefully been zocheh to leave behind children and grandchildren and even great grandchildren. We are sad, but we also are comforted by the thought of the nachas they have had and the accomplishments they have made. We recognize that before the coming of Moshiach, no one is going to live forever.
However, when such a departure from the normal occurs our hearts are broken and we cannot help but shed tears for the premature loss of life, especially in such a horrific fashion. That parents should bury their children rends the soul. These four kedoshim (Rabbi and Reb. Holtzberg, Rabbi Teitelbaum and Rabbi Kroman) left behind 13 yesomim that are all under 14 years of age. The untimely deaths of the other kedoshim (Mrs. Shvarzblatt Rabinowitz and Mrs. Orpaz) is tragic as well but (as far as I know) they did not leave behind such young yesomim.
Your way of thinking is strange, #26 , very strange. Are you Jewish?
Kinderlech, Kinderlech, ehrliche teire yiddishe kinder, hold on, wipe your tears, they are not in vain, Hashem hears us, he hears our teffilos and is crying together with us. The time is very close. It will be very good, as I have recently gone to the Yortzeit of My Father in Eretz Yisroel and went to visit the heilige Rebbitzen of Reb Chaim Kanievsky( who recently had a dream that he must publicize that the time is very close and we must do tshuvah because Moshiach is coming )and she took me around, hugged me and told me in yiddish…Dont worry, mein teire kinde, es geit zein zeir git, di vest zein, es geit zein zeyer git!
These are the birth pangs of Moshiach, just as one is in labor and feels as if the pain is so terrible it cant get any worse and then a beautiful child is born, so is it with us! The pangs before the coming of Moshiach are so hard, unbearable and painful, however PREPARE YOURSELVES….Moshiach is going to come….Prepare yourselves, Do tshuvah, dont you see Hashem is waiting for us….Dry your tears, everyone take upon yourselves one extra thing you can do, Just start with one thing and TOGETHER WE WILL BRING MOSHIACH………..
We dont understand the ways of HKBH but we know that He has a master plan and we have to trust in that plan. There are reasons for everything and achar me’ah v’esrim we may find out just what the plan was.
If you think about it for a few minutes, I am sure you can come up with something that happened in your life that you thought was the WORST possible thing (i.e., death CHV of a relative, divorced parents, etc). Then, fast forward about 10-20 years and see if you could come up with reasons for what HKBH did. I have done that in my life and BH I have seen due to or intertwined with my tzoros, was a refuah for others including shiduchim – INCLUDING MY OWN, comforting during very difficult times etc.
Yes, its hard to think about it at that difficult time, but again, you need to trust HaShem that HE has a plan and HE knows what HE is doing.