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The Pinto Associations Around the World, Along with Rabbi David Hanania Pinto Shlita, Send You Their Best Wishes for an Exceptional New Year 5770 The Pinto Associations around the world, along with Rabbi David Hanania Pinto Shlita, send you their best wishes for an exceptional new year 5770. Shana Tova! May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life. Amen. CONTENTS THE $25 MILLION FUNERAL ....................................................................................................................2 UNDER AEGIS OF THROUGH FAITH IN THE TZADDIK, ONE ATTAINS FAITH IN HASHEM .................................................4 RABBI DAVID HANANIA PINTO CHLITA PARIS • ORH CHAIM VEMOSHE THE INTERNET: A MODERN FORM OF IDOLATRY ...................................................................................10 11, RUE DU PLATEAU - 75019 PARIS 32, RUE DU PLATEAU - 75019 PARIS Tel : +331 4803 5389 • Fax : +331 4206 0033 A JOURNEY INTO THE Ukraine – ELUL 5768 ......................................................................................12 LYON • HEVRAT PINTO 20 bis, rue des Mûriers • 69100 Villeurbanne LETTERS FROM OUR READERS ................................................................................................................22 Tel: +334 7803 89 14 - Fax: +334 7868 6845 ISRAEL • ASHDOD THE MUMBAI CLASS ..................................................................................................................................30 OROT HAÏM OU MOSHE rehoV ha-adMour Mi-belz 41/6 • ashdod THE TZADDIK RABBI YEHUDAH PINTO, Known as “RABBI Hadan” ................................................35 Tel: 972 88 566 233 • Fax: 972 88 521 527 ISRAEL • JERUSALEM HEVRAT PINTo’s IMPACT AROUND THE WORLD ..................................................................................38 rehoV bayit vagan 8 • jerusaleM Tel: 972 26 433 605 • Fax: 972 26 433 570 THE SANCTITY OF THE SYNAGOGUE ......................................................................................................49 U.S.A • chevrAt pinto 207 west 78Th st - new york • ny 10024 Tel: 1 212 623 3175 YOU SHALL CHOOSE LIFE .........................................................................................................................52 Responsible for publication: Hanania SOUSSAN Layout: hanania soussan Internet : www.hevratpinto.org 1 e-mail : [email protected] THE $25 MILLION FUNERAL By David Damen An amazing saga, told here for the first for the ovens, rubbed their eyes in disbelief. said in a weak voice, “but you should know that time. It began with a father and son, separated Then they began their odyssey toward living a there is a possibility that my other son, a Jew, in Auschwitz. A secret revealed, after sixty normal, free life. Moshe, the father, tried to lo- is living somewhere in the world. I ask of you, years. A race against time, across oceans and cate his son. When he failed to do so, he quickly try to locate him! When you do find him, give him continents, to the deathbed of a long-lost dying despaired. The boy must have been killed, he 25 million dollars.” This sum was exactly half of thought to himself. The loss overtook him and Moshe’s estate. Fifty million dollars was the sum father, a fabulous fortune to be divided, a hala- broke his spirit. In a moment of emotional weak- that Moshe would be leaving behind. Now, he had chic dilemma, and a conflict in human relations. ness, he decided to abandon his religion and decided to divide it in two. The full story has been described by Gedolei completely disconnect from the past. Wounded, Moshe supplied his son with two pieces of Torah as “a story atypical of our times,” yet its angered, and filled with resentment, he decided information: The exact name of his missing son hero shrugs it off as no more than the simple to turn over a new leaf in a place where he would and his birth day. With the help of those two compliance with Jewish law that any observant be unrecognized. He wandered through several minute details, the non-Jewish son began a fas- person would see as his minimal obligation. countries, finally setting in a country in South cinating search attempt. It was a race against America. It was just another routine day at one of probability and a race against time. Any day now, the cemeteries in central Israel. Dozens of fam- In his new home, Moshe began a new chap- his father was apt to breathe his last. ily members walked, heads bowed sadly, behind ter, albeit not a smooth one. He married a lo- A Few Hours Too Late cal non-Jewish woman. The young son that he’d their deceased loved one. A standard funeral, Aided by advanced electronic media, which left behind in Poland, and the possibility that he at first glance. Strangers who encountered the hadn’t existed in the days after Auschwitz, the might still be alive somewhere, didn’t occupy his throng on its way out barely cast a glance at son slowly drew closer to his goal. He searched thoughts all that much. Perhaps covertly, when the group. Even the passionate sobs of the man throughout the United States, carried on to no one noticed, he thought about the child. But to leading the procession, who seemed to be the Europe, and … did not find a trace of his half- his non-Jewish wife and son, he never revealed only son of the deceased, didn’t transform the brother. As a last alternative, he tried searching his secret memories. The son, a non-Jew, never funeral into anything extraordinary in this land in Israel. The name that he located was a perfect imagined in his wildest dreams what his father of the dead, where wails and sobs are the order match to the name his father had mentioned. Not was hiding in his memory box. His father’s fi- of the day until that time when death will be for- only that, but the birthday was also the same. He nancial successes veiled his previous traumas. ever vanquished. didn’t waste any time, and contracted the fel- When it came to money, Moshe did quite well. He low, his new brother. The man, whom we’ll call No one could guess that this funeral, which made many successful deals and amassed tre- Yitzchak, a Torah-observant Jew living in Tel was held about three months ago, was far from mendous wealth. another routine funeral. It was the closing of an Aviv, heard the stranger on the other end of the A few months ago came his turning point. amazing saga, a rare collusion of events stun- telephone and was moved to tears. “Father is Moshe felt unwell, and at his advanced age he ning in their intensity, Divine in their essence, about to die,” his non-Jewish brother informed didn’t want to take any chances. He visited the and containing all the elements of an almost in- him. “The sooner you come, the greater your local doctor, and after comprehensive examina- chances of meeting him.” conceivable story. Had it not actually occurred, tions, was informed that his life was coming to The man, greatly moved, took the first avail- it is doubtful that anyone would believe the tale. an end. “You have just a few months left,” his able flight and flew to South America to meet The first part of the unbelievable puzzle was doctor told him with an impassive expression. woven in Auschwitz during the terrible war years. Distressed, Moshe’s The thousands of downtrodden human skeletons conscience began to trou- walking through the camp were joined one day ble him greatly. Thoughts by a father and son, named Moshe and Yitzchak of his lost son began to (not their real names). The father, a householder race through his mind, and from a certain well-known town, clutched his spurred him to take action only son tightly, desperately attempting to pro- before it would be too late. tect him from any harm. The Nazis separated the Lying on his sickbed, he father from his son. They were taken to different summoned his non-Jewish places, and never met again. son and recounted the un- A short while later, the war came to an end. told portion of his history. The survivors, who were slated to be next in line “I never told you this,” he 2 his biological father, for whom he had recited yer, and a hearing was quickly scheduled. to pay their final respects to their forgotten Kaddish for the last sixty years. He reached his In the interim, a court order was issued for- grandfather. Yitzchak said Kaddish in a crushed destination and was met at the airport by his bidding the burial until a final verdict would be voice, and began a year of mourning. brother, whose saddened face said it all. “I am reached. A few days later, the case was heard. Facing the open grave, Yitzchak began to sorry to inform you,” the brother said, “that our The judge, who apparently didn’t quite under- think about the strange series of events that father died last night in the hospital.” Yitzchak stand the great furor, suggested what seemed he had endured over the past few days. He had arrived just a few hours too late. to him a most logical arrangement. “The corpse had found his father, discovered a non-Jewish The only thing left to do at that point was shall be cremated,” he ruled. Still, in an attempt brother, lost 25 million dollars, and succeeded to arrange a respectable funeral. On the way to satisfy the Jewish brother, he informed him in granting his father a Jewish burial. His family to town, as the two discussed the tremendous that the ashes would be divided equally between members were also immersed in thought. Who inheritance waiting for them, Yitzchak tried to the two brothers. Half would be given to the non- had greater merit: The father, whose body had clarify the details of the funeral. “The funeral Jew, and the other half to Yitzchak, who would be miraculously made its way to Israel for burial, or won’t be held for another few days,” the non- free to bury it in a Jewish cemetery. Jewish brother said. the son, who had turned down such tremendous In any other situation, Yitzchak would have wealth for that purpose? “Why?” Yitzchak couldn’t understand the burst into uncontrollable laughter, remember- reason for the delay.
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