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Bar Mitzvah Boy Secretly Placed Tefillin Daily In The Heart Of The Village

A group of children who were saved from hostile villages had a Hanochas Tefillin together with an Aliyah and a Se’uda near the Kosel • One of the children who were just rescued, he’s about 15 years old, said that he had put on Tefillin in secret, in the hostile village, since he became Bar Mitzvah • Full Story, Photos

Among the Mispallelim in the Keshet Levinson hall at the Kosel, a rumor spread: an exciting Hanochas Tefillin on children who were rescued from hostile villages. Some of the crowd asked to take part in the rare Mitzvah and help the boys put on Tefillin. The children stood to say Shema in an uplifting and moving position.

But then it turned out that among the participants in the group, a 15-year-old boy who was rescued but recently and had not yet had his Bar Mitzvah, the boy, came to experience the experience at the Kosel because he did not have it when he reached Bar Mitzvah, and told the Mispalelim that he was careful to put on Tefillin every day in secret, even in the village. “He was very emotional and even helped the children in putting on Tefillin,” said one of the participants who joined the procession.

Rabbi Chaim Kahn who accompanied the children called them to come up to the Torah one by one, they made the Brachos with great excitement. The excited mothers carried out the custom of throwing the candies with the help of the other women. Tears of Jewish joy flowed like water by the stones of the Kosel.

This is the story of a group of five children who were saved with their mothers from the heart of hostile villages through the holy activity of the Yad L’Achaim organization, and went to Yerushalayim, the holy city. There, in front of the place from which the Shechinah did not move, the children accepted the burden of the Mitzvos.

Earlier, they visited the homes of Gedolei Yisrael and had the privilege of being Benched by them.

The tract of visits was opened by the group, which was accompanied by a distinguished delegation from the organization’s operative team and some of those involved in the holy work in the assimilation department at ‘Yad L’Achaim’, at the residence of the Gaon Rabbi Benyahu Shmuel Shelita, Rosh of the Kabbalistic Yeshiva ‘Nahar Shalom’.

The Rabbi received the children with demonstrable friendliness, shook their hands warmly and expressed his admiration. He prayed for the health of the mothers, as he combined in his words a strengthening message – “You came out of Egypt, and now you are engaged in building your personal Mikdash Me’At”.

Before leaving, the rabbi greeted each child individually and gave them a Bar Mitzvah gift, a magnificent “Sidur Tefilah”: “Don’t ever stop praying,” he implored them.

At the residence of a member of Moetzes Chachmei Hatorah, Rabbi Ben Zion Mutzpi, the group was received with a warm welcome. “You come from a foreign land and return to the bosom of Judaism despite all the obstacles you bravely face.”

The rabbi asked them to recite the Parasha that they had prepared to Lein, in honor of their Aliya, and indeed, the children marveled at their knowledge in an exciting way when they recited the Parsha with the Trop. At the end of the reading, the rabbi began to clap his hands excitedly.

“This is the saving of souls that cannot be overstated,” said the rabbi to the activists of the assimilation department, after hearing the story of the mother’s amazing rescue, and asked to convey on his behalf to the donors who stand behind the tremendous enterprise of Pidyon Shvuyim, that “they will have the privilege of sitting in the presence of Hashem, and will have many Brochos.”