Parshat Veyeishev: Nature's Lights
Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I feels wonderful to be back after my recent Covid infection and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you most sincerely on behalf of Stephnie, Benjamin and myself for your thoughtful messages and support during this challenging time for our family. I can't express how touched we were. This has not been an easy week for the rest of the world either. On Sunday, a Hamas terrorist in Jerusalem dressed up as a Charedi man, shot dead a young man, Eli Kay, zl who also happened to be the grandson of Rabbi Shlomo and Lynndy Levin of South Hampstead Shul and the nephew of Rabbis Eli and Baruch Levin, the latter being the Rabbi of Brondesbury Park. By all accounts, Eli was a very special individual whose love of the land of Israel knew no bounds. He had been a lone soldier who recently emigrated from South Africa and was on his way to the Kotel, where he was a guide. He was carrying his tefillin when he was gunned down in cold blood. On that