The dean of the Mekor Haim yeshiva, Rabbi Dov Zinger, offers the first eulogy for his late students, Gil-ad and Naftali.
We saw your faces in the past few days, plastered on signs “from Brazil to Rabin Square,” he says, “in the entire world, we saw your goodness.”
Gil-ad and Naftali sat together in school in the third column, second row, he says. And they will be missed.
Rabbi Dov Zinger, head of the Mekor Haim yeshiva, delivering a eulogy next to the flag-draped bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach at their funeral Tuesday. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
“Three boys at the beginning of their lives, what can be said?” he adds. Words — “how meager they are.”
Zinger calls for increased prayer, in which the “brokenness will transform into repentance,” he says, and appeals to the crowd to accept “love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Looking out at the crowd, he points to the unity in the nation: “Two Jews, three opinions, but one heart,” he says.
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