Disaster in Germany: Rabbi Yosef Heun, 52, went for a swim in Lake Dietenbach in the state of Baden, Germany, on Sunday. A man who was accompanying him noticed that he was not coming out of the water and called the rescue forces. After a lengthy search, divers managed to pull his body from the river. He was taken to a nearby hospital with CPR efforts, but the resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful - and they had to declare him dead.
Today (Tuesday) his funeral took place in the city of Strasbourg, where he lived, and he was laid to rest in the city's Kronenburg Jewish Cemetery.
Rabbi Yun has five children, and a few years ago his wife passed away suddenly.
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His brother Aaron , the cantor of the Great Synagogue in Paris - said that K.YBell received the news on Sunday evening, and he still can't digest it. "When he was a boy of about 14, he fell and was between life and death. He recovered from the injury, and now he has passed away suddenly. He had noble qualities and an immense fear of God. I recently met him buying 600 kilograms of kosher food. When I asked him, he replied that he purchased all this food from his own pocket for the benefit of his community, which could only eat kosher.".
His nephew, Eliezer HaYun, tells of a special personality of a happy, kind-hearted and God-fearing man. "I knew him in my childhood, when he studied here in the yeshiva. After his marriage, he went abroad where he served as a rabbi, teacher, and cantor.".
A large crowd attended the funeral, led by all the city's rabbis, led by Av Beit Din Rabbi Schlesinger and Av Beit Din Rabbi Michael Shmerla. The head of the court, Rabbi Shmerla, is the deceased's nephew and even studied with him. In his eulogy, he explained that although eulogies are forbidden during the month of Nissan, he only wishes to tell about the deceased's noble qualities, his fear of God, and his being a scholar.
May his memory be blessed.
