Post by Paddy by Grace on Dec 31, 2008 20:03:34 GMT -7
Heartbreak: 4-year old son of Mumbai victims dies of genetic disease
israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2008/12/heartbreak-4-year-old-son-of-mumbai.html
4-year old Dov Holzberg, the son of Mumbai terror victims Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holzberg HY"D (may God avenge their blood), died overnight Monday night. Dov had a genetic disease (previous reports have mentioned Tay-Sachs) . Dov had been institutionalized here in Israel and was not in Mumbai at the time of the attack. An older brother had previously died of the disease.
The funeral of Dov Holtzberg, whose two-year-old brother Moshe survived the attack on the Chabad house, was be held at 10 am in Jerusalem.
The couple's eldest son died of the same disease two years ago at the tender age of three.
"It is hard to imagine what this family has been through recently," said Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, Rivka Holzberg's father.
Rivka's sister, Haikeh, told Ynet that "there is no one to sit Shiva (seven days of mourning) for Dov."
Jews only sit shiva for a parent, child (God forbid), sibling or spouse. Dov's brother, Moshe, is too young to sit shiva.
Hashem natan v'Hashem lakach y'hi Shem Hashem m'vorach (God has given and God has taken away, may God's name be blessed - a line from the Jewish funeral service).
israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2008/12/heartbreak-4-year-old-son-of-mumbai.html
4-year old Dov Holzberg, the son of Mumbai terror victims Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holzberg HY"D (may God avenge their blood), died overnight Monday night. Dov had a genetic disease (previous reports have mentioned Tay-Sachs) . Dov had been institutionalized here in Israel and was not in Mumbai at the time of the attack. An older brother had previously died of the disease.
The funeral of Dov Holtzberg, whose two-year-old brother Moshe survived the attack on the Chabad house, was be held at 10 am in Jerusalem.
The couple's eldest son died of the same disease two years ago at the tender age of three.
"It is hard to imagine what this family has been through recently," said Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, Rivka Holzberg's father.
Rivka's sister, Haikeh, told Ynet that "there is no one to sit Shiva (seven days of mourning) for Dov."
Jews only sit shiva for a parent, child (God forbid), sibling or spouse. Dov's brother, Moshe, is too young to sit shiva.
Hashem natan v'Hashem lakach y'hi Shem Hashem m'vorach (God has given and God has taken away, may God's name be blessed - a line from the Jewish funeral service).