JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: In yet another tragic incident which occurred during the final days of the Bein Hazmanin period in Israel, an 18-year-old Yeshiva student, Yishai Keinan z’l, drowned in a lagoon near the Kinneret lake on Tuesday.
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Keinan, a resident of the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood in Jerusalem, was a student at the Tiferet Levi yeshiva in Elad. He went with friends to the lagoon, located near Maale Gamla at the entrance to the Golan heights. At a certain point, Yishai lost contact with his friends and went underwater. Fire and rescue teams from Golan and divers from the Lehava unit located Yishai’s body hours later in the lagoon.
United Hatzalah volunteers Ohad Ringer and Avi Elhiani said that “The youth drowned and was lost, according to his friends description. Divers succeeded in locating and removing his body from the water and he was declared dead at the scene.”
Yishai was born on 26 Av 5765, exactly 18 years ago. He studied in the Tiferes Levi yeshiva ketana and last year entered the yeshiva gedolah, where he was considered one of the best students, studying Torah at all hours from 7:30 AM until the small hours of the night. Friends said that this was a “Great loss for family, yeshiva, and the entire generation. Without doubt he would have been one of the more prominent Talmidei Chachamim of the generation due to his diligence and perseverance in Torah and Avodas Hashem.”
Yishai z’l was brought to his final rest on Har Hamenuchos at 1:30 AM Wednesday. May his memory be blessed.
The current tragedy is unfortunately the fifth tragedy in the last few weeks of Bein Hazmanim. Two weeks ago, Rabbi Binyamin Praga (44) died of dehydration and exposure in a Jordan Valley stream. 10-year-old Baruch Abadi of Kiryat Sefer died in a swimming pool near his home. 4-year-old David Turgeman drowned in a pool in an Eilat hotel, and R’ Yitzchak Ben-Shimol of Jerusalem (79) drowned in the Kinneret near Tiberias.
תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים.
I happen to know many of the bachurim in the Yeshiva very well and know the situation up front.
While a cult can be very hard to define, there is no doubt in my mind that Rabbi Rubin has a much much higher level of control over his bochurim than your average Rosh Yeshiva, and there is unheard of levels of alienation from parents. There are no shortage of Yeshivas that guide and show the bochurim how to respect their parents despite the parents not necessarily supporting the Yeshiva lifestyle.
Rabbi Hoffman makes this seem like it is Sephardic/Ashkenazi issue, how exactly is this relevant? Do Sephardic bochurim need more control than Ashkenazim.
On another note, I think Rav Hoffman was mislead regarding the boys backgrounds. There are a few boys that came from less Yeshiva oriented high schools, but all the students I know (most of the current ones I am familiar with) come from regular Shomre Torah families.
This whole idea of Bein Hazmanim is wrong. In Europe it took over a week of travel to get home and the they stayed for about a week to see their family.The traveled back over a weeks time. Today in a few hours you are home.
Someone learning and his Torah is his work – why does he need 2 months vocation. What happened to the Torah those 2 months. Think about it, a guy working all year only gets 2 weeks vocation.
This Entire concept is wrong, that we took from Europe. It is nothing but a bittel Torah. The Yeshivas should stop it. Maybe, just maybe Hashem is telling us something.
I kind of hate to ask this, but do you think he took the COVID shots? Because many young people have been fainting or having cardiac incidents, and if that is happening when people are swimming, it would probably result in a drowning. Given the aggressive push for the shots in Israel, a high number of people took it.
to the people who want to commit sucide. keep going swimming in lakes or beaches and the dead toll will just keep rising to the ski