Just Received this Letter From A Friend Of Benzion

Mumbai.

It seems so far away, so so far away. Yet last week it was just next door.

I knew one of the murdered victims from yeshiva. Bentzion Kruman. He was a sweet soul. He was a gentle soul. Why? WHY?

What is the rationale behind killing an innocent man or woman? What is gained?!?

What kind of world are we living in??

A human life being ripped away is very, very sad. Knowing and having been touched by that human being makes it all the more poignant.

Bentzi, you had so much more to offer this world! Your wife needs you! Your children need you! Your parents need you! Your friends need you! And yet you are gone.

Due to no fault of your own. But rather to the blind insane hatred that was visited upon you that dreadful day.

We wonder, did you know that you were not going to walk out of there alive? Did you at least have a feeling of false hope? Were you hungry? Thirsty? I'm sure you were worried about your family, but did you really think that they would never see you again??

Did the monsters taunt you? Did they allow you the dignity of being a human being in your final hours? When the Malach Hamoves came for you did it hurt? Did you feel the pain?

We are crying. Our eyes have ceased to shed tears as we watched your young son say Kaddish yet we are crying. We are weeping.

Our hearts are broken.

Klal Yosroel is broken

The world is broken.