Distance: 650 km, target: bringing Jew to burial in Israel
ZAKA volunteers were called to the task: a young Israeli whose grandfather died in Ukraine, and the neighbors wanted to bury him in a Christian cemetery • After an exhausting journey he was brought to Jewish burial
- Eli Schlesinger, Behadrey Haredim
- ז' אב התשע"ג
Tatiana, a resident of Israel, went to visit her beloved grandfather Yitzchak Ben Meir Hager in the village of Truskavets, a spa town in Levov, Ukraine. She never imagined that it would be a farewell trip. Four hours after she came to the home of her grandfather, he died in her hands.
Residents of the remote town, devout Christians who knew the late Yitzhak Ben-Meir, wanted to bury their favorite neighbor in Christian burial. They knocked on his door to take the body of the deceased. Yet the granddaughter Tatiana refused and insisted that her grandfather would be buried in Jewish burial. The residents who considered it a religious mission, returned over and over and again to take the body, but the granddaughter literally chased them away.
In despair, she turned to Zaka. With the vigorous activity of ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi Zahav, a minyan of volunteers from ZAKA unit of Ukraine, Kiev, organized under the command of Rabbi Yaakov Zilberman.
The energetic volunteer Moishele Zimmerman organized ten volunteers headed by Rabbi Zalman Povolkov, director of the burial society in Kiev, equipped with the required equipment they set out on a journey of six hundred and fifty miles in a ten hours drive to the town of Truskavets, obtained the necessary approvals, improvised a space in what remained from the old Jewish cemetery and brought the deceased to proper Jewish burial.
The neighbors of the deceased, who were angry that they not allowed to bring their friend to Christian burial according to the custom of the place, consciously boycotted the funeral, and none of them took part.
When Ukraine ZAKA volunteers inquired of the granddaughter about the history of the her deceased grandfather, it turned out that he was a grandson of Rabbi of Odessa.
The deceased z"l merited, the granddaughter Tatiana merited, the ZAKA volunteers Ukraine merited to bring a Jew left somewhere in a remote place at the end of the world to proper Jewish burial.
Funeral of Yitzhak Ben Meir Truskavets
Residents of the remote town, devout Christians who knew the late Yitzhak Ben-Meir, wanted to bury their favorite neighbor in Christian burial. They knocked on his door to take the body of the deceased. Yet the granddaughter Tatiana refused and insisted that her grandfather would be buried in Jewish burial. The residents who considered it a religious mission, returned over and over and again to take the body, but the granddaughter literally chased them away.
In despair, she turned to Zaka. With the vigorous activity of ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi Zahav, a minyan of volunteers from ZAKA unit of Ukraine, Kiev, organized under the command of Rabbi Yaakov Zilberman.
The energetic volunteer Moishele Zimmerman organized ten volunteers headed by Rabbi Zalman Povolkov, director of the burial society in Kiev, equipped with the required equipment they set out on a journey of six hundred and fifty miles in a ten hours drive to the town of Truskavets, obtained the necessary approvals, improvised a space in what remained from the old Jewish cemetery and brought the deceased to proper Jewish burial.
The neighbors of the deceased, who were angry that they not allowed to bring their friend to Christian burial according to the custom of the place, consciously boycotted the funeral, and none of them took part.
When Ukraine ZAKA volunteers inquired of the granddaughter about the history of the her deceased grandfather, it turned out that he was a grandson of Rabbi of Odessa.
The deceased z"l merited, the granddaughter Tatiana merited, the ZAKA volunteers Ukraine merited to bring a Jew left somewhere in a remote place at the end of the world to proper Jewish burial.
Funeral of Yitzhak Ben Meir Truskavets
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