The feeling of pain and sorrow best describes the events for a family in Modi’in Illit, who were informed on Sunday 21 Adar 5773 they will have to postpone a hachnasas Sefer Torah marking the 1st yahrzeit of their son due to the petira of a second son z”l.

This is a family with three sons stricken with an illness that prevents proper development of their bodies. One son died a year ago and on the eve of the hachnasas Sefer Torah in his memory, they learned of the petira of a second son.

Needless to say following the death of a second child, the hachnasas Sefer Torah in the shul where the father davens is being pushed to another date.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)