New York – The parents of slain 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky marked the end of their seven-day grieving period Wednesday morning with a religious tradition of walk outside their Brooklyn home.
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Nachman and Esty Kletzky, surrounded by relatives, walked around their block at 15th Ave. in Borough Park at about 6 a.m.
“It’s a sign that your escorting the soul to its resting place,” said Jack Meyer, of Misaskim, an organization that provides services to grieving families.
The ritual marks the end of shiva, the Jewish tradition of mourning the dead with friends and relatives inside the home. It lasts seven days.
About 9:40 a.m., Misaskim workers carried prayer books, building chairs, portable air-conditioners and a podium out of the Kletzkys’ home.
Meyer said little Leiby’s mourning parents now face a tougher challenge.
“They have had thousands of people who came to show them moral support,” he said. “Now the trying time starts. They’re all alone. … Now they’ve got to cope with it on their own.”
their pain will never go away
but eventually they do need to get on back to their normal routine
Now that shiva is over, I hope the media will leave the family alone.
They will never be alone…that is the beauty of the Jewish people!
You never ever recover from the death of a child.
Their child has become the child of the entire Jewish world and people are thinking of them all over the globe.
they will never be alone…. as chazal say KOL YISROEL AREIVEM…. their loss is a loss to us klal yisroel…. their pain is our pain…. Hashem should give them the strenghth to go on….. and may their lives be filled with simcha only…. and Leiby hy”d is up there looking down at his beloved parents and sibling and he will see that their pain sorrow will end shortly with the coming of moshiach speedly…..
Why aren’t the sisters mentioned? They are suffering as much or more then the
parents Remember them next time
May they have some comfort in knowing that their precious son brought about a tremendous kiddush hashen and unified so many millions of people.
The parents have dealt with this accident of fate with great courage. They are a role model for other parents confronting a loss
You are NOT allowed to say hy”d IF someone is killed by a yid.
For the last week I’ve been waking up to the name Leiby as the first thought. I can’t bear the pain, and anguish. Yet I am not related or have ever met him, its like a big part of me being taken away. The Gemmara relates that one shouldn’t mourn longer than 30 days.
Excuse me have we not learned anything from this tragedy? Now begins the chessed projects with this family. There should be a constant flow each day asking what can we do to help. Meals should be prepared, and any other chessed should be done asap.. Let’s get the girls to a camp away from boro park, let’s make sure Nachmen is working and with moral support throughout the day. This is our test, now is the time to act as we do best. Now is the time to be makayem the mitzvah veuhavtu lerayacha komoicheh. NOW is our time as united yidden to band together and show how important one Jewish soul is.
Hashem Yerachem
they have suffered much pain. they have received much support.
May Hashem give them the strength to go on. May they know no more sorrow.
May their lives be filled with only joy and happiness.
that is why it says when a husband loses a spouse and vice versa they are called a widower or widow, when a child loses a parent the child is called an orphan but r’l when a parent loses a child there isn’t any name!!!!
the only one that can and will comfort them is the the almighty g-d for part of HASHEM is taken away when a soul leaves the world!!!!
The reason given is that because of hatred and jealousy hashem takes away a person. May hashem grant us all the ability to have unconditonal love one to another regardless where they are holding in judaism amen.
The baal shem tov may his merit be a sheild for us all amen says the famous statement from rabbi akiva may his merit be a sheild for us amen love thy neighbour as thy self the word neighbour in hebrew is ray ay cha which is made up of two words ray shelcha the bad within you. to teach and tell us that the negative which we see in the other is hashem really showing me myself through them
.If we will all merit to make hashem a dwelling in this world then hashem will surely bring us all the salvations needed from his palace in the next world amen
I’ve been around the block.unfortunatly after all hupala winds down they will be all alone .hashem yishmor
What does hyd stand for?
I bentsh the family to have only simchos, easy and plentiful parnosso and tons of nachas from their family.
I think it will be a relief to the Kletzky family to stop being the center of a media circus and the main attraction all week for strangers who came to gawk and ‘show support’, who didn’t even know the Kletzky family. I am sure it would have been much more meaningful to them if only their friends, acquaintances and relatives would have come, instead of all the curiosity-seekers who just came to gawk and go away saying “I was there and I saw them”.
The pain defintely sets in now however a yid is defintely not alone and with the help of hashem friends and family and with leibys memories smiling down from gan eden they will continue living unfortunately with a hole in their heart
Will we now look into our schools and kehillas and find the kids who are being taunted, teased, bullied by the other kids, and intervene before the victim grows into an angry and vengeful adult?
I have a relative that lost a child more than twenty years ago, they have both lost parents and one even lost a sibling. Yet they both say there is no pain like losing a child. They say that only one who has lost a child r”l can understand their pain. The pain is still extremely raw!
Also, I hope the family will be told by proffesionals about what took place with their sons, before an idiot blurts it out to them – especially the girls.
I pray for them that הרופא לשבורי לב should do His job in affective way as He always does, and give the family strength to continue being so strong.
They will never be forgotten, and when anyone mentions his name please use Z’L instead of A’H. If your a mother please have him in mind by candle lighting. We should always share only good news. Let’s all love each other and show the world how we jews never fight
their pain will never go away. each day i think about this little precious boy which was taken away from his family and friends!! i never met the boy and do not know the family. but i keep on thinking about the parents and their grief and sorrow, i cry all over again!! its really a terrible tragedy
by the way i thought that leiby was the oldest and the girls younger than him,so howcomes they sat shiva?or they were stam sitting home to be near their parents?or he wasnt the oldest even?im just curious….&may; the kletzkys be comforted in respectful ways and not people should but into their lives ….they should leave them in peace
to #11 why does someone always have to do this – one person writes about the beauty of klal yisroel and someone else has to go on about how other communities do this as well, blah blah… why can’t we once in a while be proud of ourselves? Stop being so “PC”
to #32 why do you need to know? I am perplexed? Will it change your life… and yes, little children sit shiva, and even in some case say kaddish
“They have had thousands of people who came to show them moral support,” he said. “Now the trying time starts. They’re all alone. … Now they’ve got to cope with it on their own.”
This is well-put. Speaking as someone who has already sat shiva for both parents (once at age 16, the other at age 41), I can tell you that the weeks after the shiva is over are the hardest. The “hoopla and fanfare” are over, people are going back to their lives and you are left to deal with your pain. And I “only” had to deal with my parents’ petirahs, which is “normal”. Kal v’chomer the pain of losing a child and a further kal v’chomer the way they lost him.