Bar Mitzvah - Roee's Story w/ rus subs

bar mitzvah the coming of age which every jewish boy and every jewish parent anticipates with joy and hope it's been this way for generations as boys become men and follow in the footsteps of their fathers grandfathers and great-grandfathers bar mitzvah a time to rejoice among family and friends as a new link is added to the eternal jewish chain except except when the chain is broken and a family is bereft of a parent with their fathers gone many orphaned boys never get to celebrate their special day their mothers are too alone too poor too damaged to pick up the links on their own this summer 108 orphans from across israel celebrated their bar mitzvah together in style each boy received his own pair of tefillin each young man was called up to the torah they all linked arms together with israel's leading dignitaries and dance their way into manhood proud new links in the chain of generations 108 tragedies 108 orphans 108 widowed mothers 108 victories each of these children has their own story this is one of them my husband haggai cheffy was born on october of a 1966 in tel aviv as a kid he played soccer i wasn't doing great at school riley was playing soccer and later on i really became a very good student and we actually met the army on on june of 1996 our first born our son was born and we became a family at the end of 2000 beginning of 2001 a hagai was saying this is the time to try to establish my own company so he established a gold tier technologies on september 11 of 2001 hagai was a at a conference on windows of the world on 106th floor of the north building and he was about to give a lecture and also to be part of a panel and a guy called me and told me that there was a bomb and there is a lot of smoke and he said goodbye he said a few personal words that i actually do not say to anyone but i knew that he knows that he's going to die ah rory wasn't doing well at the beginning and i was worried that before the permits were time so i called the rabbi shimon a weiner from a bad day of yahood he said to us you know because roy lost his daddy we have a once a year an event at the hotel we came to the hotel and with family with close family and friends it was a very happy event very exciting you feel the the hug the big hug especially at this a happy time then you can feel the loss even greater i mean you feel the loss every day it's something that will follow us for the rest of our life but in a happy event uh you all you it's it's something that you feel most and then when you are part of a group that is not the only one that doesn't have a father that people wanting to be happy to feel that you're part of a big family you