Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, who led the service, had to pause and collect himself as he paid tribute to Matilda’s short life. <\/p>\n
“The tragic, so totally cruel, unfathomable murder of young Matilda is something to all of us as if our own daughter was taken from us,” he said.<\/p>\n
The service heard how she had lived with beauty, goodness and righteousness.<\/p>\n
“The Jewish … believe that death is not eternal \u2026 it is not because we are na\u00efve,” Rabbi Ulman said.<\/p>\n
“I’m telling you with absolute conviction that the separation with Matilda is not forever.”<\/p>\n
Still, he conceded that his words would likely offer little comfort – something he knows too well. A day earlier, Rabbi Ulman spoke at the funeral of his own son-in-law, Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was also killed in the attack on Bondi.<\/p>\n
“You give me strength at a time when you need strength yourselves. And I try to do the same,” he said to Matilda’s parents, who sobbed in the front row.<\/p>\n
Ms Chernykh earlier said the family was devastated.<\/p>\n
“I look at their faces [and] I don’t know if they will be ever happy again,” she said of Matilda’s parents.<\/p>\n
Matilda’s younger sister, from whom she was “inseparable”, is shattered and confused, she said. “She doesn’t have enough tears to cry.”<\/p>\n
On the same day the massacre’s youngest victim was laid to rest, its eldest was too. A service for Alex Kleytman – an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor – was held at the same funeral home on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
In a statement, his family said he died doing what he loved most: protecting his wife Larisa and celebrating his Jewish faith. <\/p>\n
“The two gunmen killed him, but his memories, his legacy, and his books will bring light for generations to come,” it read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, who led the service, had to pause and collect himself as he paid tribute to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-639545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115738643146847531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}