''You are now in Rabbi Shimon's yeshiva': The father's moving eulogy

2 May 2021   

In Kiryat Herzog in Bnei Brak, the funeral of the late 13-year-old Yedidia Hayut was held tonight (Saturday night), with thousands of people attending. In one ambulance sat the father, Rabbi Avigdor Hayut, a teacher at the 'Imrei David' Talmud Torah school in Kiryat Herzog, who was injured in the 'Meron disaster' and came from the 'Ziv' hospital in Safed to attend the funeral. In the second ambulance, the body of the late son was placed. It's time to wake up: your dream has a home – and it's about to come true. How? Free: How much money are you losing because you don't know what your rights are? The coronavirus outbreak is on the decline, but a mask is still required in closed spaces. Remember? The father eulogized his son: "Friends, you were my rabbi. 'Father, you want to be a dayan, why didn't you open the Shulchan Aruch this week, Father, you didn't record the lesson clearly enough. Father, this doesn't suit you.' "You were my rabbi, friends, you were my obligor. Since you were born until today. Friends, on Thursday morning, you went to the bedroom and knocked. You told me: 'Father, I'm going to the mikveh.' I told you: Why are you suddenly mikveh? What happened today? It's not Friday.' Your soul felt very well what was going to happen. "Friends, on Shabbat, the hardest Shabbat of my life, I made up my mind on Friday that your funeral would be on Friday. But you didn't agree, you insisted that I be there. Here I am with you... Friends, all this time you've been crazy about classes, about studying, about getting things done. I would turn off your player at 3 a.m., you would fall asleep in the middle of classes, you would keep summaries in your pillow. Friends, you were accepted into a certain yeshiva, but God provided you with a better yeshiva. I was also in that test, but they didn't accept me. "20 seconds were missing, for them to accept me into this yeshiva, but I didn't have enough protection. "At Rabbi Shimon's funeral, 45 people were also killed, and it's not just for nothing. One of the conditions was that these 45 atoned for the entire world. Friends, you are a saint, I didn't know how to appreciate what I had in my hand. After the martyrdom of the martyrs, say. "My friends, we will be strong, we will continue, you will never leave us. Tonight, both I and my mother purchased plots near you. We are not parting and we will meet after 120 or we will meet in the resurrection that will be soon. In the meantime, we have sent you as an ambassador up there, you will meet your sister there who died immediately at birth. "You are in Rabbi Shimon's yeshiva, you will meet all the righteous and holy rabbis that you spoke about. I wish we could reach the tenth level of yours, my friends. A level of guarding the eyes, of speaking, of learning, of holiness, you were a holy child. You were killed a minute later, exactly, after receiving the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven from the Rebbe of Toldot Aharon. You were killed from a song that I have been singing to the students for a week - and God knows why. Thanks to the Tanna God (he sings), there in this song you were killed. Friends, we will continue and be strong with all our might. Pray for us, for me, for my mother, for your brothers. They did not accept me there, I am not worthy, I am not entitled, pray to God, tell Him enough, bring redemption. "Gentlemen, now is our time to be strong, to unite. We have gone through a long and terrible period of Corona and now such a disaster. God is speaking to us. Stop digging into each other's tsitzits. We are Jews first and foremost, stop all the divisions, we will not get anywhere with this. "We are Jews, we will unite. This is what God wants from us. We will not learn from the good - we will learn from the disasters. Look, now everyone is here. "If we manage to do this one step earlier, we will save ourselves a lot of grief. Friends, pray for us.". Shmuel Meir Hayut, the brother of Yedidia Z"l, told the funeral: "I fell and knew that I might not be here. I shouted 'Shema Israel' from the bottom of my heart. After that, I realized that God was saving me. I immediately called the rescue forces who saved my father, and then told the police to look for my brother. "I felt confident and confident. I felt that only God could save me. There is no one to believe in except the Holy One, blessed be He. I thought these were the last moments, and in the end I realized that the Holy One, blessed be He, was saving me.".