Yiddishe Mamme

The Jewish world is deeply shocked about the death of the righteous rabbi "Baba Elazar" zt"l, he was a leader of our generation. He was murdered by one of the visitors who came to him for 'advice'. He supported and gave advice to thousands of people who came to him for advice and blessings. It is very urgent that we will make up our 'spriritual account' and repent from our misdeeds towards our fellow men. Especially during the days of mourning preceding the fast of the 9th of Av, the day of the destruction of both the Temples. The Temples were destroyed because of senseless hatred.

Mrs. Susan Rodrigues Pereira was renovating her house when she was surprised at the unique discovery in a wall at the entrance of her house. Two mezuzot, one large and one small, and a mezuzah case hidden and cemented inside the walls of the entrance of the house. These mezuzos were hidden in the wall during the Holocaust to avoid the Nazis noticing that it was a Jewish home. Susan is a Jewish woman of Portuguese descent. Recently, she made a research to the origin of her family. She is a descendent of an old Jewish Portuguese family who once came to the Netherlands as Marranos. Of course she knows what a mezuzah is. She investigated the story behind the mezuzos. She discovered that before the Holocaust many Jews lived in her street of which very few survived the war. Her investigation led her to a businessman Josef Tafelkruier who lived in her house before the Holocaust. The house next door lived the community Rabbi Benjamin Israel Ricardo. Susan continued her research and reached the...