The levaya of Chaim Yosef Eisenthal, z’l, 14, who was murdered on Tuesday evening after being run over by an Arab bus driver at a rally against the draft law in Jerusalem, began on Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Beis Medrash of the Ohel Torah yeshivah in the Ramot Daled neighborhood of Jerusalem, where the niftar learned.
The kevurah will take place at Har Hamenuchos.
Yosef, z’l, was the son of Rav Shmuel Eisenthal, a maggid shiur at the “Ohel Torah–Ponevezh” Yeshiva in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem (where Yosef learned).
He was the grandson of HaRav Uriel Eisenthal, the Rav of the Ramot Gimmel neighborhood of Jerusalem.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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All involved share the blame in this tragedy. Obviously, the Arab driver, the bus company that hired the Arab, and all the Rebbes and Roshe Yeshiva who called for these protests. This kid should have been in his yeshiva or at home not protesting in the streets.
These protest are ineffective and only cause rifts among the Jewish people. If one really believes Torah study protects the nation as much as an army, than stay in yeshiva and increase your zchut by learning more, so you will not be drafted.
I’m curious why charges for assault weren’t brought against the people spitting at a bus driver. Play with fire you get burned.
The real murderers are the ones that committed the chillul Hashem and spat on the driver.
It doesn’t take a genius to predict this sort of out come from that sort of behavior.
It is quite foreseeable. Shame on the chareidim for not sitting and learning which is really their only good excuse for not serving in the army
Why was a 13 yr old at this rally?
Reply to Chaim_Baruch!
I’m curious what your consultation fee is? I’d like to deliver a full package to the Rabbonim who are in need of your sage counsel and advice.
Additionally, the arab driver is in need of good legal counsel. Won’t you extend yourself pro bono?
Big deal, so he was “span on”, by children. So what? The racist Arab murdered this child. And Haaretz and the life’s are guilty of incitement.
During the Iran Iraq war, Iran sent little children to the front lines and gave them keys which the kids were told will get them right into heaven when they are killed. The kids thought they were out to change the world but within weeks of their deaths no one remembered their names and no one other than their grieving parents remembered they even existed.
The hands of the wicked supreme court is QUITE LITERALLY dripping with Jewish Blood:- This tragedy 100% solely their fault.
Reply to Yaapchik
I don’t claim to be as learned as the Torah leaders who endorse the protests. They certainly know more Shas and Poskim than me. I’m just a simple Jew living in Israel for 37 years, so who am I to question their wisdom? First of all, I’m not someone who has been brainwashed with the foolish concept of daas Torah. If Moshe Rabeinu a”h can make an error in judgement or forget a halacha, what make the today’s Rabbis infallible or even immune from criticism? Rav Chaim Ozer zt”l was greater than anyone in this generation, yet he was very reluctant about using the Sugihara visas to escape Lithuania. His fears were unwarranted and thousands were saved. It does not take a Talmid chacham to see these protests are futile and divisive.
Nobody spat on the driver. He was inside his bus!
If at the million man march that was attended by at least a half a million ppl this would of happened would the clowns above be stating they should be in the beis medrash
we’ll the gedolei roshei yeshiva felt it as time not to be in the beis medrashh rather to protest
last evening the eidah hachareis leaders said it is time for everybody to protest and there are keyboard warriors who belong in the bm that are telling theses leaders not to protest
where were the keyboard warriors when ayalon highway was being blocked during rush our each evening by jeans so tight you couldn’t breathe
BDE 😭 Terrible, needless tragedy!!
another victim of Zionism, they are looking to take away our Torah and now are letting our youth to get killed.
chaim-baruch you are a clown and an apikores the chazon ish says someone who say daaas chachomim is relegated to halacha and not to life is an apikores
chaim Baruch you are from the worst. you’re words imply that it doesn’t matter that they know more poskim than you you know more about life you know protests are futile
who said they are futile you you know nothing. if they are futile why do chachomin call for them constantly
It’s high time all these rallies ate stopped. Every time there’s a rally against the draft law someone or more are killed and injured. STOP WITH THIS CRAP!!! So far no good and 0 success came from rallying.
The best way to rally is for Torah learning and davening to continue with sincerity… wasting time at an outdoor rally and alighting garbage cans or doing stupid things only brings tragedy. The gov says… look they spend time rallying outside Instead of learning these men/bochrim may as well spend the time in the army! And they’re correct!! So STOP with time wasting rallies and prevent unnecessary tragedy.
What a world we’re in that half of the people can’t even be sad that such a young face lost his life. It’s straight to politics and disagreements. Sick
reply to lbj
Perhaps I’m a clown to some. But I’m certainly not apikores as you claim. I have a great reverence for the rulings of Rabbonim, even those outside of my “Dati Leumi” community. I admire and respect men like Rav Shlomo Zalman Orbach zt”l just as much as Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook zt”l.
I have no problem saying many Rabbonim are as wise in the ways of the world as they are in Torah. And are capable of advising on many matters. But, erudition in Torah does not mean infallibility in all things. Saying any man, even the greatest Torah scholar is perfect and incapable of error is a ridiculous statement. Otherwise what’s the point of tshuva.
You quoted the Chazon Ish zt”l, using the expression “Daas Chachamim”. But who decides who is a Chacham? You? The Jews in Bnai Brak or maybe Lakewood? Even in Brooklyn there is no consensus. A Jew in Crown Heights will have a different opinion than a Jew in Williamsburg. So, you’ll excuse me if I don’t shake in fear from your quote from the Chazon Ish zt”l because the Hareidi world does not have a monopoly on “chachamim”. But the difference between you and us in the Dati Leumi community is we still respect the Hareidi rabbonim, even if we disagree with them on this issue. Your community dismisses our “Gedolim” off hand and often ignore their status as rabbanim altogether.
So, I stand by original statements that these demonstrations do more harm than good. I have seen demonstrations against Oslo in the 1990s and in 2005 against the destruction of Gush Katif. None of these protests changed prevented the politicians from doing their damage. If these protests continue, the rift that already exists between the various groups will only widen.
This is an absolutely preventable tragedy. But the same exact crowd posting messages here against this driver wouldn’t dream about saying the same of Reuven Kahane when he drove into a left wing protester here in NY. When you riot you do so to create fear, when people are afraid they make snap decisions to save themselves. If these protesters hadn’t blocked access, set fires, surrounded vehicles, none of this would have happened.
Some truth serum for fools who are incapable of critical thinking:
If a person is killed while intentionally standing in front of a moving vehicle, they have committed suicide, even if the vehicle driver is guilty of negligence or manslaughter.
Suicide is a severe sin in Judaism, the deceased person is not a saint nor a role model.
Lawful, non-violent protests should be held in front of the Knesset.
Blocking streets is a chilul Hashem, the worst sin in the Torah.
Its time for the “rabbis” who promote these deadly street riots to be held accountable.
Anyone who stands in front of moving vehicles and expects a miracle will be done for them, they should discard their Talmud, Rambam, and Shulchan Aruch since they are a Reform Jew.
רַבִּי יַנַּאי לְטַעְמֵיהּ, דְּאָמַר: לְעוֹלָם אַל יַעֲמוֹד אָדָם בְּמָקוֹם סַכָּנָה לוֹמַר שֶׁעוֹשִׂין לוֹ נֵס, שֶׁמָּא אֵין עוֹשִׂין לוֹ נֵס. וְאִם עוֹשִׂין לוֹ נֵס — מְנַכִּין לוֹ מִזְּכֻיוֹתָיו.
(Talmud, Shabbat 32a)
(Rambam Hilchos Rotzeach 12:6)
(Shulchan Arukh, Yoreh De’ah 116:5)
Chaim boruch. R Chaim Ozer was niftar years before the sugihara visas.
Moderators Note: Is that so? Rav Chaim Ozer was niftar in August 1940, precisely the same time that R’ Moshe Zupnik was saving the entire Mirrer Yeshiva by getting the Sugihara visas. The entire Yeshiva had literally just left Vilna, where Rav Chaim Ozer was the Rov and the Yeshiva had fled to after Mir was invaded. (They then relocated from Vilna to Kedainiai and Sugihara was loacted in Kovno).
Any other questions?
@Chaim_Baruch
“But the difference between you and us in the Dati Leumi community is we still respect the Hareidi rabbonim, even if we disagree with them on this issue. Your community dismisses our “Gedolim” off hand and often ignore their status as rabbanim altogether.”
SAME EXACT argument that the WOW and Reform, reconstructionist Jews have.
“We recognise and respect your form of Judaism, why can’t you do the same”?