During the predawn hours of Tuesday, 3 Teves, Dov Ber Holtzberg, 4.5, was niftar due to a serious illness. Dov Ber z”l was a son of the Chabad shluchim to Mumbai, Rav Gavriel Noach and Rivki HY”D.
Dov Ber suffered from a serious illness and was hospitalized in Jerusalem. The levaya will begin at 10:00am in Shamgar Funeral Home and kvura will take place in Har HaZeisim.
The hakamas matzeiva of the parents, Rav Gavriel and Rivki, will take place G-D willing on Thursday in Har HaZeisim.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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20 Responses
This is so sad. When is this all going to end?
At least he can join his parents forever
Baruch Dayan HaEmes. What a tragedy. This poor family!! How much can one family take? It’s time for Moshiach.
baruch dayan emes – hashem yerachem, even though this is probably best for him not to suffer anymore, but what must we do to bring mashiach NOW????!!!!
WOW, this is unbeliavable during the shloshim of his parents!!!
Baruch Dayan Emes !! Such a tragedy and a kapara for kall yisrael !! I am taken back and shocked…….
This is such tragedy and just brings home how important it is to get boys and girls tested for these genetic diseases before they start meeting on a Shidduch It is no game looking after a disabled child and watching them suffer
This is a tragedy. My understanding is that this boy had Tay-Sachs, as did their first born child. I wonder why the disease is not mentioned by name? Tay-Sachs is largely preventable nowadays thru genetic testing either before marriage or PGD of embryos (during IVF). I wonder if this child’s death can be used for good to teach everyone how to prevent this disease. In this day and age, if we can educate people, there is a good chance we can prevent Tay-sachs births.
This unfortunate case should warn everyone to test for Tay Sachs through Dor Yesharim or some other medium.
The chabad community along with the rest of the frum velt should require every young couple do take the tests. This could have been prevented.
# 8 & 9
He did not have Tay sachs. He had another genetic illness.
It should be all the more amazing to us that little Mosheleh is a matanah min hashomayim. He will come to find out when he is older that he lost two siblings to a serious condition that only Shomayim could have been gozer. He lost his parents to a tragedy that also only Shomayim could have been gozer. And he is left with us to carry on the bright light of Torah and bring that ohr shemachzirin l’mutav to all those who tread in choshech.
I will be mispallel that his life be filled with the tachlis Hashem intended he internalize and not the pain of losing mishpocho as he has.
It is a tremendous burden for him, but I trust the chochomim that he will be close to will help him provide the meaning to this precious neshomoh Klal Yisroel is blessed to have. He will certainly be beloved by many.
#10 – it was tay sachs and it seems the Chabad community according to the direction of the Rebbe does not do Dor Yishorim.
Chabad belives 100% on dor yesharim- so please reaserch before saying it wasnt according to the Rebbe direction. and we cant juge why this all happend .if he was born its because hashem broought him in this world for a reason that we might not understand.
#12 I dont know where you get your information from, but I am Chabad and we do take the test. They come down to our school to take blood from all the students. I do not know what happened in this case, I guess it was bashert for moishele to be born.
#12
Im not sure where u get your information from but all chabad mosdos do tay sachs. check your info before publicly posting.
Before we blast Chabad for not doing Dor Yeshorim, when I recently asked a shadchan to ask the other side to test (we don’t necessarily do it before starting a shidduch but I insist on bringing it up early, before any heartbreak) I just heard for the very first time that there are people who don’t test because of “tamim tihye im Hashem Elokecha.” These people were definitely not Chabad.
(As an aside, if that was the other family’s approach, I would probably not want to do a shidduch with them. Assuming they acted this way – and it might extend to different forms of insurance too – on the directives of a rav they were close to, I would have great respect for their consistency but this is not my derech.)
#12 – can you explain further? I was wondering about that – if all of the Chabad Community does not allow for any testing and if so, what the reason is. Thanks
I would so do a Shidduch with any woman that is versed in the phrase “tamim tihye im Hashem Elokecha.”
18, I hate going off on a tangent but it’s important to understand that not everyone understands this pasuk to mean no genetic testing, no life insurance, etc. I guarantee that all the gedolim that DO advocate Dor Yesharim, life insurance, etc. also feel they are living and telling others to live within the parameters of tamim tihye.
Tamim Tihye, according to Rabbi Yaakov Hillel, in the Sefer tamim Tihye means, don’t go to mekubalim to solve your problems. The sefer is translated into English:
It is called Faith and Folly.
For yissurim, we already have a precedent:
Teshuva, Tefila, U’Tzedaka Ma’avirin es ro’ah hagezaira.
V’Rapo Yirapay covers Dor Yeshorim
It means we have permission, and it is a mitzvah to use all scientific avenues available to promote health. Genetic illnesses were created by Hashem. He also gave up permission to cure them.
don’t be stupid!