On Shabbat evening, the head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Meir Zvi Bergman, sent a letter of condolence to the family of the gaon Rabbi Shlomo Spiegel, head of the 'Spiegel' group in the Beit Israel neighborhood of Jerusalem, who reside in 'Sheva', on the passing of their sons, the young men Issachar Dov and Avraham Yeshayahu, late.
The head of the yeshiva opened his letter: "To the honor of the great one, the one who imparts Torah to the flocks and guides them in a straight path and true paths, the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Spiegel, may God bless him, and to the Rebbetzin, and to all the members of the exalted family. Together with all the members of the yeshiva.
We heard the hard and bitter news that shook the face of the world, about the sudden removal of your two pure sons, precious and exalted delights of the eye, Issachar Dov and Avraham Isaiah, remembered as righteous men of blessing, who were noble figures of those who sought God, and all who knew them testify that they were the seed of God's blessing, and they answered and said of them, 'Blessed is your mother,' blessed is their father who raised them in the Torah, and blessed is their teacher who taught them Torah. They were immersed in the depths of Halacha, laboring in the Torah and worshippers of God, whose only aspiration was to ascend and ascend on the path that leads to Bethel.
""As we stand before this terrible decree, the heart ponders the words of Scripture in this week's parashah: 'After the death of the two sons of Aaron, they came near before the Lord and died,' and the word death is doubled at the end of the verse to instruct that it was not only the time of their death near the Lord, but that it was the cause of their death near the Lord, as the Lord said: 'He whom the Lord spoke to my relatives I will sanctify,' and with it in the Book of Sacrifices (19:1) on this: When the Blessed One, blessed be He, judges the righteous, His name is sanctified and feared. And it is clear that special and sublime rights are needed in order for the name of heaven to be sanctified by man, and we find in this a terrible and terrible matter, that precisely with 'those around Him were very hairy,' that the Blessed One, blessed be He, is meticulous about them like a hair, where the holiness of His blessed name is revealed in the most terrible way.
""And all of Israel stands in astonishment at your noble image, the manner in which you received the terrible news, and your conduct that inspired the entire public to repentance and to be strengthened in accepting the judgment of heaven with love and innocence. There is no doubt that at this hour the Blessed One says in the upper chamber: 'Behold the creatures that I have created in my world.' Blessed is the eye that saw this. You have been blessed, that such pure sons of the ascension have come forth from you, and that the name of heaven in the world may be sanctified by you and by your seed in such a sublime and terrible way.".
The head of the yeshiva concluded his letter: "It is very difficult to speak to the aching heart of a father and mother who are grieving for their beloved sons, and from the bottom of my heart I pray to the Lord of Comforters that He will send His word from on high to embrace the weak knees, that your hearts may not fail and that you may not rest in the study of Torah and the establishment of the yeshiva, to revive the spirits of the humble and to revive the hearts of the oppressed, and in this you will find courage and strength, so that the rabbi Shlomo Shechik will be able to continue together with the rebbetzin Shechik on their wonderful path to the land of the living.".
""The place will comfort you among the rest of the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem, and may the Lord grant that no more robbery and destruction will be heard within your borders forever.".
The Grand Master added in his handwritten signature: "Who shares in your sorrow.".
