At a small and crowded funeral parlor in Jerusalem, Shmuel Elimelech Braun stood in front of the the small white shroud covered body of his three-month-old daughter Chaya Zissel, killed earlier that day in a terror attack.
“Zissla, you were pure,” he said in a tear-choked voice. Earlier on Wednesday, he and his wife had taken her for her first trip to see the Western Wall.
“In the last hour, you were by the Kotel. You woke up.We shmoozed (talked) with each other,” the young father said.
“You looked at me and smiled,” Braun said.
“I told you, this is the Kotel, this is Har HaBayit (The Temple Mount),” he recalled.
Braun spoke with his young daughter about the cherubs that had been on the Ark of the Covenant when the Temple existed and described how their faces were like that of a pure child.
“Like you,” Braun had said. “You looked at me, with a twinkle in your eye, like you knew, like you understood me,” he said.
“You made us happy from the moment you [arrived],” he Braun said.
In the last few weeks they had celebrated the holidays together.
“You were glowing,” he said.
He and his wife, along with Zissel, had spent the holiday with their parents. Braun recalled how he would hold Zissel on his lap and sing religious songs at the end of the holiday meals. Around him, as he spoke, where male mourners who wore black suits and black hats. His tearful wife, stood together with the women.
President Reuven Rivlin, who eulogized Chaya Zissel, that the baby’s mother was from the Halperin family, who built the Zichron Meir neighborhood of Bnai Brak.
The baby’s grandfather Shimshon Halperin said for the past 40 years, he had lived in the US. His daughter had returned to Israel this year, so her husband, Shmuel Elimelech could study.
Halperin had come to Israel with with his wife Sarah for the holidays. He spoke with reporters after the terror attacked and described how his daughter had tried for a number of years to have a child before giving birth to Chaya Zissel.
On Wednesday, his daughter and husband, had taken Chaya Zissel for her first trip to the Western Wall.
“It was her first trip to the Kotel. They took photographs,” Halperin said.
They returned home on the light rail. Just after they stepped of the train, a young Palestinian man from east Jerusalem Abd al-Rahman al-Shaludi drove his car into the group of people standing by the train station.
Police have charged that he did so deliberately and that the incident is a terror attack.
Halperin said his granddaughter flew out of her carriage and into the air some 10 to 20 meters before landing on the sidewalk, injuring her head.
Doctors were unable to save her life, Halperin said.
He explained that the attack occurred while his wife Sarah was on an airplane back to the US.
“She will arrive in a couple of hours and the first news that she will hear, is that our granddaughter, who we waited for, for so long, has died.”
MY PS/
I CAN NOT EXPRESS MY ANGER STRONGLY ENOUGH...AND WHEN I LOOK AT THIS LITTLE AND PRECIOUS BABY MY EYES FILL WITH TEARS. I KNOW WHAT IT IS TO STARE AT A BABY SUCH AS THIS...MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN...
THEREFORE I CONGRATULATE THE ISRAEL POLICEMEN WHO EXECUTED THIS palestinian and/or muslim, WHATEVER PIECE OF EXCREMENT HE WAS. WELL DONE, MAGAVNIKS...
TODAY THERE IS ANOTHER ANGEL IN HEAVEN...CHAYA ZISSEL Z"L
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