Rabbi Menachem Mendel Meshi Zahav, the father of ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi Zahav, passed away on Saturday at the age of 83. The father was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital yesterday morning after collapsing in his home and losing consciousness. He will be laid to rest tonight in the Mount of Olives Cemetery in Jerusalem.
Earlier this week, Gold Silk’s wife, Sarah Zissel, died after contracting the corona virus. Her son, the late Moshe, died last month after a serious illness.
“Death rose in our window,” the chairman of the ZAK wrote after Shabbat. “Break after break after break we were broken, blow after blow. My younger brother Moshe, the late my mother Morati and now the late Avi Mori. All this in thirty days. Great as we have broken, who will heal us? “
“Lord of the worlds, I know you are putting us to the test, hard and painful experience. Oh, how painful,” added Golden Silk. “But I promise you that even in the concealment within the concealment, surely also there is God blessed. For I know that when a father gives blows it is only from love. I will continue to love you with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my heart. As my dear parents educated me. The beloved and pleasant ones in their lives and deaths have not parted. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God the Lord is One”.
The ZAKA organization issued a statement of condolence on the death of Rabbi Meshi Zahav: The ZAKA family participates in the heavy and painful mourning of the organization’s chairman, Yehuda Meshi Zahav, on the death of his father, the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel, during the swearing-in ceremony for his mother, Mrs. Sarah Zissel AH. In your great deeds you will be comforted and you will know no more sorrow. “