JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Binyamin Wurzberger had an emotional meeting today with Israeli chief rabbi David Lau, himself the son of a survivor. Rabbi Lau presented him with the semicha (rabbinical ordination) certificate of his great-grandson Rabbi Yair Kofeld, who has completed his rabbinical studies at the Har Hamor yeshiva in Jerusalem.
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Wurzberger, who had asked to take part in the ceremony, perused the certificate with great emotion and then said that “after I went through the seven levels of hell with the Nazis, may their name be blotted out, and I merited this, it is hard to express it in words.”
Rabbi Lau told him that he was the one responsible for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren growing up in the tents of Torah and blessed him that he would merit to bring more of his descendants to receive their rabbinical ordination.