Thousands attended the funeral on Thursday of Tuvia Simcha, who was tragically murdered in a terrorist shooting attack near the tunnels checkpoint on Route 60, outside Jerusalem.
The funeral procession began at the Shamgar funeral home in Jerusalem and passed by the ‘Pnei Menachem’ yeshiva on Yosef Ziv Street before heading to the cemetery.
His father bid a tearful farewell, expressing heartbreak over not even having bought Tefillin for his son’s Bar Mitzvah before having to buy a burial plot. “The goy who murdered him was not interested in where the boy came from and where he was going, he just knew that he was a Jew. Let us understand that and try to maintain good relations between us, to be careful not to harm, to respect one another.”
Tuvia’s younger brother eulogized him: “My dear brother, you were the best brother. We did so much together, and my heart aches terribly. I ask that you pray for me and for the entire family.”
His melamed (cheder teacher) told of Tuvia’s interest in understanding deeply whatever was learned and hoped that Tuvia would plead before G-d for the good of his parents, his friends and all the Jewish People and for tragedy and enemy attacks in our country to cease.
Rabbi Mordechai Alter eulogized Tuvia Hy”d, calling him a pure offering, and raising his hands to the heavens said part of the prayer for salvation said on Sukkot: “Hosha na, save us Hashem. How many sacrifices we have offered this year…how many children have been orphaned, redeem Your holy flock.”
הלוויית הילד הקדוש
יהושע אהרן טוביה שמחה הי”ד
בן הגה”ח רבי זושא שמחה שליט”א
ראש ישיב”ג כלל חסידי – ביתר
שנרצח ע”י בני עוולה עקה”ש
וְהָפַכְתִּי חַגֵּיכֶם לְאֵבֶל
דברי הספד
מאת רבינו ראש הישיבה הגאון רבי שאול אלתר שליט”א
י”א כסלו תשפ”ה
