Nearly one year after a white supremacist gunman attacked a Pesach service at a Chabad Shul in Poway, California, killing one participant, the rabbi of the community has issued a special message commemorating the outrage.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein was shot in the hand during the April 27, 2019 attack on the Chabad of Poway, losing two of his fingers. Two other congregants were also wounded, while a third — 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye — was killed.
In a video message released to coincide with the last days of the Pesach, Rabbi Goldstein said this should be an occasion for “hope and dedication” despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“The expression of love, unity and the amount of Mitzvos and Shabbos candles that were lit in memory of Lori is so appreciated and has certainly broken through the gates of Heaven,” Goldstein said in the video.
The rabbi noted that in the days after the shooting in Poway, “I appealed to the world to fill up the synagogues and Chabad houses the following Shabbos.”
He added: “This year, we are not going to be doing that. While we can’t do so physically, we are going to fill ourselves with the spirit of our shuls.”
The Algemeiner (c) 2019 .
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