Posted on 11/23/22
| News Source: Arutz-7
Hundreds of people attended the Wednesday afternoon funeral of 15-year-old Aryeh Schupak, a resident of Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood who was killed in a bombing at the entrance to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning.
Schupak studied in the Beit Meir yeshiva, and held Canadian citizenship. He was killed next to his good friend, who he traveled to yeshiva with each morning and who suffered injuries in the bombing.
Schupak's father said, "I just want to tell my son, Aryeh, goodbye. I apologize to you. G-d gave, and G-d took. He was a child who taught us a lesson."
The principal of the school where Schupak studied said, "Aryeh is still here with us." He added that on Tuesday, a staff member had noticed that Aryeh was not feeling well, and told him not to come to yeshiva the next day. But Aryeh insisted on coming to pray in the yeshiva and learn.
"He fought hard, with all his strength, he did not have an easy life," the principal added. "He held on to his tefillin and his studies, and he managed to get himself onto a good path. He was intended for greatness."
"There is not a single person in the entire class who can say that he ever saw anger in this child - with Aryeh, he did not know what anger was. He would walk in the street and help everyone he could, he was beloved by all."
Rabbi David Yosef mourned, "How awful it is to accompany a young boy, who was bar mitzvah not long ago, a mere child, who finished elementary school just a year ago, together with my grandson. He was raised in a very special family, good parents, righteous, with good characters, an amazing family. He came to yeshiva, was there one year, and now we are accompanying him to his eternal resting place. Oy, it is so much pain."
"When we have people who fight against the Torah, G-d punishes us. Those who are fighting us are not a 'nation' - there never was such a thing as a Palestinian nation. They are a nation of murder. They see murder as holy. Our job is to strengthen our faith in the Creator of the World. Our war against them will be by means of Torah, that we sit and serve G-d."