“This is a great day for me. I was not privileged to experience a bar mitzvah. Rather, I experienced continuous escape during the Second World War, with severe hunger. My family was murdered before my eyes.
Celebrating my bar mitzvah brings me serenity. And today I return to being a 13-year-old boy.”
So said Avraham Alstar, 83-years old, who celebrated – along with 9 other Holocaust survivors – a moving bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.
Always Relevant – Parashat Devarim
Parashat Devarim 5786 Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites The fifth book of the Torah, known as Mishneh Torah (“Repetition
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