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Kadish Ben Tzion Kruman hy'd of Bat Yam and family
Bat Yam, Israel - "These were indescribable days," Yehoshua Chroman said of the period since his 28-year-old brother Bentzion's death in the Mumbai terror assault last week.
Bentzion left behind a 24-year-old wife, Emuna, and three children, the oldest just five years old, the youngest barely three months.
Speaking at the Bobov Yeshiva in Bat Yam, where Chroman had studied, Yehoshua called on his lost brother to help the family through the difficult time ahead.
"You left us here without you. You left your young wife alone," he said between sobs. "Don't forget them. Be with them always. Remember us.
"We will need a lot of strength. A link in our family's chain is broken, so we'll have to hold on to each other harder."
At the gathering of over a hundred members of the Bobov hassidic community, local rabbis and friends spoke of a "sweet, smart boy."
To the sound of weeping, neighborhood rabbi Yaakov Rojza recalled knowing Bentzion "since he was eight years old. He was such a smart and charismatic child. We're going to bury him today. How do you bury such a sweet child so soon?"
"I met him at prayers," said neighbor Moshe Yaronsky, who recalled he was always "a smiling, gentle man."
A yeshiva friend and member of the ZAKA team who went to Mumbai to collect the bodies recalled "entering Chabad House on Saturday night. It was like a nightmare.
"When I saw you [Bentzion] I couldn't look at you. We took your passport and identification card from your pocket. We shouted out Shema Yisrael.
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"I want to apologize to you, Bentzi, if we missed a bit of blood. It was such hard work."
A dual US-Israeli citizen, Bentzion worked as a kashrut supervisor for the New York-based Volover Rebbe, Rabbi Nahum Ephraim Teitelbaum, the father of fellow victim Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum.
He was in India for a plant inspection and was on his way home to Israel when he visited the Mumbai Chabad House, said friends.
The terrorists attacked the building, known locally as Nariman House, shortly after he arrived.
Speakers at the memorial ceremony said he was beloved by those he worked with.
"He did his work intelligently, beautifully," said Rojza. "No one was ever angry with him. He sanctified God's name among the Gentiles he worked with."
"There is no filling the vacuum left behind here in Bobov," said another speaker.
Yehoshua told the gathering that Bentzi had planned to end his work travels, which were taking a toll on his family.
"Before he left for India, Bentzi said, 'this is the last time I travel. I can't bear to leave the kids like this.' But he needed to make a living, to support his family."
"I never believed that a brother has to accompany his younger brother to his funeral," added Yehoshua. "How do I go to a funeral of someone so young, a brother who barely started his life?
"But we have no questions or complaints for God," he insisted in a broken voice.
As they escorted the body of the young man into a ZAKA van that took it for burial to Petah Tikva, Chroman's mother and wife wailed, "we love you, Bentzi."
A stone can melt from hearing the 5 yr old son saying Kadish see below Video
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Dec 02, 2008 at 11:01 PM Anonymous Says:
Let us all support this family and donate to help them get through these difficult times
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Dec 02, 2008 at 11:01 PM Anonymous Says:
can we for once and for all get all the rabbanim and chassidim to stop fighting and be b'achdus? benzi was bobov, teitelbaum was satmar, and the holtzbergs were lubavitch. doesnt it show a sign to us? i dont want to russtle anyones feathers in this time but these are 3 kehilas who are having machlokos. "ad musei" till when? how many good people have to die untimely deaths in a way no person should go until klal yisroel will get the message? enough is enough. i cant bear it anymore. i havent stopped crying since thursday. i wake up from nightmares.
parents of children , look at what you have-precious gems in your hands. they are valuable and irreplaceable. lets start doing something so chas vasholom no one should loose a gem or a gem shouldnt loose a parent. reboino shel olem. ad musei?? now that the kedushim are buried and life goes back to normalcy lets not forget this past week and continue this achdus that we have seen so moshiach can come and we dont need to know of such tzar again.
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Dec 02, 2008 at 11:43 PM Lebediger Says:
# 2 don't fix the world and stop blaming other people that because of them things happen you start doing something better and leave everyone alone
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Dec 02, 2008 at 11:41 PM Anonymous Says:
“ can we for once and for all get all the rabbanim and chassidim to stop fighting and be b'achdus? benzi was bobov, teitelbaum was satmar, and the holtzbergs were lubavitch. doesnt it show a sign to us? i dont want to russtle anyones feathers in this time but these are 3 kehilas who are having machlokos. "ad musei" till when? how many good people have to die untimely deaths in a way no person should go until klal yisroel will get the message? enough is enough. i cant bear it anymore. i havent stopped crying since thursday. i wake up from nightmares.
parents of children , look at what you have-precious gems in your hands. they are valuable and irreplaceable. lets start doing something so chas vasholom no one should loose a gem or a gem shouldnt loose a parent. reboino shel olem. ad musei?? now that the kedushim are buried and life goes back to normalcy lets not forget this past week and continue this achdus that we have seen so moshiach can come and we dont need to know of such tzar again. ”
i dont understand these people were together in the chabad house they werent fighting. the onl evirah you found was mhachlokas, i bet you look at yourself you will find much more wrose eviros. search yourself and not others, its your mind, blame others, cant take the blame on yourself.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 12:26 AM poster #2 Says:
“ # 2 don't fix the world and stop blaming other people that because of them things happen you start doing something better and leave everyone alone ”
i will take upon myself something. i never said i am trying to fix the world and chas vasholom i am not blaming these kedoshim for anything. all i am saying is we should take a lesson and keep the achdus going strong.
on another note i wish sometimes people would read carefully what was written before replying.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 12:37 AM agmes nefesh Says:
#2 to what sect did the Mexican and Israeli women belong to Was it one that has Machlokes?How can you make such a statement? The Kedoshim bodies are still warm.I am not Chas vesholom justifying Machlokes But please now is not the time to speak bad on Klall Yisroel.We need Zechusim.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 02:14 AM mike wax Says:
yup we all together gotta do tshuva
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Dec 03, 2008 at 07:57 AM read more carefully Says:
What #2 seems to have meant (and no I am not #2) is that when Jews do not get along, it could impact other Jews, even those who are not involved in a maklokes. None of us today were alive when golus started from a maklokes but we are still suffering from it. The original fighters unwittingly dragged us into it.
While no one should accuse the Jewish people of maklokes, we know that in all people, it is the nature of the human condition that we must work to overcome in order to end golus.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 08:02 AM reality Says:
“ i will take upon myself something. i never said i am trying to fix the world and chas vasholom i am not blaming these kedoshim for anything. all i am saying is we should take a lesson and keep the achdus going strong.
on another note i wish sometimes people would read carefully what was written before replying. ”
To reply # 2
If you have a hirur teshuva do not look what other empty people write on this chazal say leitzunis echud doche meah tochochois one joke pushes away one hundred words of musar, it is true we have to live in tranquility & sholom, it is true we do not understand the ways of hashem but one thing is for sure hashem loves piece, so let us take upon ourselves to destroy all hatred in our hearts and bring love to every yid in our hearts.
P.s. Your words had a great impact on me yasher koach
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Dec 03, 2008 at 08:14 AM mrsrbs Says:
you know what I find so sad. Where was the Litvish representation at the funeral of the shlucim?
such hatred! That is no Judaism that i plan to be a part of.
It's so sad, that for the terorrists all Jews are the same in their eyes, but for the Litvish, they couldn't bring themselves to overlook their differences FOR ONE DAY.
No wonder Mashiach is not here yet.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 08:17 AM Anonymous Says:
#2 has a strong point, as any eltere gadol, how much they are pained by this machlokes
there are very few aveiros that pose a danger to klal yisroel as machlokes
#2 did NOT say this is WHY it happened
at makas bechoros klal yisroel needed a special zechus to be spared the maakoh as rashi says " kevan sheniten reshus lemashchis aino mavchin bein tov vera
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Dec 03, 2008 at 08:23 AM Shlepper Says:
#2:
However you want to explain it, there is [jealousy and] hate in your message.
When you say "ALL" rabbanim(huh?) and chassidim (again, huh ???), you show your true colours.
Really now, ALL?
I suspect you are not a chassid at all, and you have no idea what a chassid is.
Are you Shomer Shabbos?
This news article united our broken hearts, and even if you thought you had good intentions, YOU are the one that insinuated division with your post. (dressed up in achdus.)
Let me tell you this. Chabad, Satmar, and Bobov are three key forces of kedusha that restored true yiddishkeit in Europe, America, and Eretz Yisroel, and are also the keys of bringing Moshiach, hence the kedoshim from these three kehilas hakodesh. Hashem takes the best to get the job done.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 09:31 AM Anonymous Says:
“ #2:
However you want to explain it, there is [jealousy and] hate in your message.
When you say "ALL" rabbanim(huh?) and chassidim (again, huh ???), you show your true colours.
Really now, ALL?
I suspect you are not a chassid at all, and you have no idea what a chassid is.
Are you Shomer Shabbos?
This news article united our broken hearts, and even if you thought you had good intentions, YOU are the one that insinuated division with your post. (dressed up in achdus.)
Let me tell you this. Chabad, Satmar, and Bobov are three key forces of kedusha that restored true yiddishkeit in Europe, America, and Eretz Yisroel, and are also the keys of bringing Moshiach, hence the kedoshim from these three kehilas hakodesh. Hashem takes the best to get the job done. ”
there you go....asking an individual if he or she is shomer shabbos. The A-rabs who did this horrrfic act did not care if someone was orthodox or not.. You shouldn't either.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 09:38 AM #2 Says:
“ #2:
However you want to explain it, there is [jealousy and] hate in your message.
When you say "ALL" rabbanim(huh?) and chassidim (again, huh ???), you show your true colours.
Really now, ALL?
I suspect you are not a chassid at all, and you have no idea what a chassid is.
Are you Shomer Shabbos?
This news article united our broken hearts, and even if you thought you had good intentions, YOU are the one that insinuated division with your post. (dressed up in achdus.)
Let me tell you this. Chabad, Satmar, and Bobov are three key forces of kedusha that restored true yiddishkeit in Europe, America, and Eretz Yisroel, and are also the keys of bringing Moshiach, hence the kedoshim from these three kehilas hakodesh. Hashem takes the best to get the job done. ”
i wont even reply to such a statement. are you questioning my yiddishkeit? i am frum . when i said all its a general statement. had i said some i would have been told i was picking on some . so get a life. look at the overral post and the message in it. some of you people are so bored you will pick on one word and turn the whole post around. you sound like a chassid who is involved in machlokos to me.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 09:38 AM Anonymous Says:
#2 = 100% RIGHT!!!!
We must this fighting between two Rebbes (Bobov, Satmar) and between Moshiachisten and Lubavitchers (Chabad).
THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!
The people suffering are not the guilty but the innocent ones!
AD MOSAI!!!!???
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Dec 03, 2008 at 09:53 AM Anonymous Says:
“ #2 = 100% RIGHT!!!!
We must this fighting between two Rebbes (Bobov, Satmar) and between Moshiachisten and Lubavitchers (Chabad).
THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!
The people suffering are not the guilty but the innocent ones!
AD MOSAI!!!!??? ”
First sentence: We must STOP.....
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Dec 03, 2008 at 09:52 AM anonymous Says:
“ can we for once and for all get all the rabbanim and chassidim to stop fighting and be b'achdus? benzi was bobov, teitelbaum was satmar, and the holtzbergs were lubavitch. doesnt it show a sign to us? i dont want to russtle anyones feathers in this time but these are 3 kehilas who are having machlokos. "ad musei" till when? how many good people have to die untimely deaths in a way no person should go until klal yisroel will get the message? enough is enough. i cant bear it anymore. i havent stopped crying since thursday. i wake up from nightmares.
parents of children , look at what you have-precious gems in your hands. they are valuable and irreplaceable. lets start doing something so chas vasholom no one should loose a gem or a gem shouldnt loose a parent. reboino shel olem. ad musei?? now that the kedushim are buried and life goes back to normalcy lets not forget this past week and continue this achdus that we have seen so moshiach can come and we dont need to know of such tzar again. ”
I happen to think #2 says it all. definitely a lot of tzuris comes from all the politics. im just wondering if anybody would actually tell these rabbonim what they're doing is wrong. my god there are families broken up because of all this. so yes this is a mssg. for klal yisroel. please tell your rebbi to stop all machlokas.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 09:48 AM Mitch Says:
#2 - Perhaps its easier to find the truth in your words when you don't have personal reasons to attack them. You are absolutely right. So many tzaros come from machlokes, and as you can see from the responses you got, there are some who would rather fight anyway.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 10:45 AM stop Says:
you all bloggers #2-18 till now, you got to stop.
everyone needs to put in the last word, or give his opinion.
just all keep quiet. believe me, we can comment on every every single article here on this site and argue for the sake of seeing our written point. (think about it).
so lets all just keep quiet, no comments, no talking back to other comments and spend less time on the internet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dec 03, 2008 at 11:24 AM Anonymous Says:
“ i dont understand these people were together in the chabad house they werent fighting. the onl evirah you found was mhachlokas, i bet you look at yourself you will find much more wrose eviros. search yourself and not others, its your mind, blame others, cant take the blame on yourself. ”
#2 is right on. There is intense machlokes amongst these chassidic sects and it does not take a rocket science to figure out that a major message from Hashem was given to us. Everyone knows that Jews are friendliest to one another when they encounter over seas , away from home where there are not many Jews. So deep down Jews love each other and it shows when they are away. But at home there is a lot of argueing that is killing Klal yisrael. And yes these korbanos made the ultimate sacrifice so that people like you should wake up and realize that machlokes is the main factor of this golus and if we would all get along and be beachdus Moshiach would have arrived.
Ofcoarse people have to fix their own aveiros and worry about themselves but its very transparrant when people of different sects all go together and were killed, that is a message. If you dont see it then you are cluless
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Dec 03, 2008 at 12:52 PM Mitch Says:
#19 - maybe its not said nearly enough. Its time that every single Yid takes a little responsiblity in not spreading hatred - its always "someone else" who is at fault but never "you" (in the general term, not you, #19!)
#2 is absolutely right, and should not be verbally attacked for saying so, especially when the ones telling him off for it are confirming their card-carrying membership in the Sinas Chinam club.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 01:12 PM Anonymous Says:
I am surprised that comment #2 was even allowed to be posted. This is not a time to pint fingers. everyone can and should do ther own soul searching.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 12:58 PM igood Says:
To all of you writing comments especially #2 for your comment. Yes machlokes has to be minimized to the out most possible between klal yisrael frum,chasidish,litvish,sefardish,and even chilonim,---american,israel,swiss,indian,Chinese,iranian,and so all of klall yisrael. By picking names you are not avoiding machlokes you might not realize but add some. So let's work on ourselves to reduce it by saying gut shabbes to people on the street all tough we don't know them personally and try to give chizuk to a chiloni so maybe he will do teshuvah with us together and by that we will bring moshiach quicker amen. No reply is necessary
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Dec 03, 2008 at 01:15 PM Anonymous Says:
My heart is broken - nebbuch. A little yinglele with so much pain. To receite kaddish at this age - who can say. Only Baruch Dayan HaEmes. Nothing else to say. Lives shattered worlds changed hearts broken lives filled with pain of no tatty. Hopefully he will go strong and be supported by his family. The others as well - the poor wife and other kinderlach. Why Hashem why - someone told me that in times of moshiach the living will envy the dead.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 01:48 PM Anonymous Says:
i had the opportunity to meet ben zion in beijing, china many times on shabbos the past two years. His concentration and kavana in his tefilah was truly a sight of a real baal bitachon. He loved all Jews of all colors. He loved to sing carlebach niggunim at the Shabbos table, and his favorite niggun was "Kol Hoalam kulo geher tzar meod, ve-ha-ikar lo le-fached klal", meaning, "this world is just but a narrow bridge, and there is nothing to fear".
He would start the melody in his low sweet melodious voice and as he would repeat the words from the depths of his neshama, his voice would get stronger and louder and all at the shabbos table would join in spontaneously. I am sure that he gave his life as a Kadosh with these words on his lips, Ve-haikar lo le-fached klal", May Hashem avenge his blood, and may this sweet, holy neshama be a mailitz yosher for all klal yisroel.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 02:16 PM Baruch Dayan Emet Says:
Baruch Dayan Emet - heartbreaking!! AD MOSAI, AD MOSAI, AD MOSAI!!!!
hashem owes moshiach now to Am yisrael - Hear the CRIES of your children!!
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Dec 03, 2008 at 02:41 PM yoine Says:
if anyone knows the fathers name for mishnayes
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Dec 03, 2008 at 03:27 PM moshe Says:
ad mosai!!!! tatte in himmel help!!!!
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Dec 03, 2008 at 04:42 PM a friend Says:
“ if anyone knows the fathers name for mishnayes
”
the father's name is chaim dov
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Dec 03, 2008 at 05:14 PM Anonymous Says:
STOP IT ALREADY! #2 didn't say that there was machlokes between those Kedoshim - he was refering to the machlokesen in each of their respective machenes.
But stop all of you and look at the real bright side.
When the chips are down c"v for any Yid, we are all b'achdus! This was seen so clearly now, it was seen with Sury Feldman (for those that remember), It is seen daily from Hatzoloh, Shomrim, Chaveirim, and all the wonderful Tzedaka Mosods (Bonei Olam and RCCS do not ask whether you are Litvish, or to which Chassidus you belong. Same for Tomchei Shabbos etc etc).
The bottom line is that there IS Achdus in Klal Yisroel. All the machlokesen that we hear of are about power and money, involve those few that stand to gain, and shlep in others for support (of course it's all l'shem Shomamyim - ha ha).
The Ribono Shel Olam knows the truth, and is surely proud of Klal Yisroel.
May He never test us again with such news. Only Simchas with Gezunt, Parnasa, and Nachas!!!
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Dec 03, 2008 at 05:26 PM Anonymous Says:
Let us each make a real cheshbon hanefesh, so that we never hear of such tragedies again.
END talking in Shul, by davening, by laining, even bain gavra l'gavra
END using cell phones in Shul, it's a disgrace and a "patch in ponim" to the Ribono Shel Olam, chalila
END extravagance even if you can afford it - if you can't, then you are an idiot
END kinah and sinah - what the Ribono Shel Olam wants to give you, you will get anyway
Be happy with someone else's hatzlocha and their Simcha
TRY to daven with more Kavana
Make sure you learn Torah every day
HELP a fellow Yid, both b'gashmiyus and b'ruchnius.
GREET everyone you meet with a "Good morning", "Good night", and "Gut Shabbos" - even if you don't know them.
And BE BESIMCHA
Moshiach is almost here. HANG ON!
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Dec 03, 2008 at 06:11 PM Anonymous Says:
Please, Please, PLEASE!!!!!
Why? Why must we look for answers and reasons??
I knew Bentzi from yeshiva he was sweet and kind and gentle and now he's gone.
He was not the type to tell others what to do so why are there those that insist that they have the answers? We all know what is broken within ourselves and we all know what needs fixing. As I said, he was not the type to tell others what to do.
We miss you Bentzi,, your smile,, your scarf around your neck,, your friendliness…. Keep an eye out for us.
Please donate to the fund that has been setup, please.
A Friend
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Dec 03, 2008 at 08:02 PM Y Says:
Bentzi,
I'll never forget you. Every time i see your picture and the picture with your tzaddikil , i start crying.
Go storm the heavens and bring moshiach - and till then, be a mailitz yosher for your wife and kinderlach. Make sure they have the strength to get thru this terrible time.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 08:38 PM Anonymous Says:
“ can we for once and for all get all the rabbanim and chassidim to stop fighting and be b'achdus? benzi was bobov, teitelbaum was satmar, and the holtzbergs were lubavitch. doesnt it show a sign to us? i dont want to russtle anyones feathers in this time but these are 3 kehilas who are having machlokos. "ad musei" till when? how many good people have to die untimely deaths in a way no person should go until klal yisroel will get the message? enough is enough. i cant bear it anymore. i havent stopped crying since thursday. i wake up from nightmares.
parents of children , look at what you have-precious gems in your hands. they are valuable and irreplaceable. lets start doing something so chas vasholom no one should loose a gem or a gem shouldnt loose a parent. reboino shel olem. ad musei?? now that the kedushim are buried and life goes back to normalcy lets not forget this past week and continue this achdus that we have seen so moshiach can come and we dont need to know of such tzar again. ”
Well said. Take a piece of paper Wright a kvital to those rebbes to stop fighting. Leave the chassidim out of it.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 10:41 PM Anonymous Says:
“ # 2 don't fix the world and stop blaming other people that because of them things happen you start doing something better and leave everyone alone ”
disagree thats exactly why we are suffering from machlochas-dont even deny it! about time we become one nation.
enough biching!