Hundreds of Bobover Chassidim and Bat Yam residents participated in a hachnassas sefer Torah in the loving memory of Rabbi Bentzion Kruman hy"d, who was brutally murdered during the Mumbai Beit Chabad massacre last year. The parade set out to the grand Bobov Beis Medrash in Kiryat Bobov, Bat Yam.

Several prominent Admorim, Rabbanim and public figures arrived in Kiryat Bobov on Monday afternoon to write the last letters in the sefer Torah at the house of late Rabbi Kruman hy"d. Among them was Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Meislish, Rav of the Bobover kehillah and a son-in-law of the late Bobover Rebbe zt"l.

At seven p.m. the parade set out from the Krumans household. Hundreds of children from the kehillah accompanied the sefer Torah on its way to the Beis Medrash with lit torches in their hands, and bachurim and avreichim danced around the Torah scroll with all their might.

The sefer Torah was brought into the Beis Medrash and Rabbi Meislish recited the customary mizmorim. With trembling hands, the father of the late Rabbi Kruman hy"d brought in the sefer Torah to the aron kodesh.

Following the hachnassas sefer Torah, the crowd assembled for a seudas mitzvah and a yahrtzeit seudah in memory of Rabbi Kruman hy"d. His father, who has finished a masechta l'ilui nishmas his beloved son, spoke before the crowd and talked about his son's greatness in Torah and middos.

Rabbi Kruman's elder brother also spoke at the event, as did the mara d'asra Rabbi Meislish.

The me'il  [שלומי כץ]

Rabbi Chaim Dov Kruman, father of Rabbi Bentzion hy"d  [שלומי כץ]

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Rabbi Meir Porush  [שלומי כץ]

Mara D'asra Rabbi Meislish shlita [שלומי כץ]

Rabbi Yaakov Roze writes a letter in the sefer Torah [שלומי כץ]

A brother of Rabbi Bentzion hy"d [שלומי כץ]

The father of Rivkah Holtzberg hy"d, writes a letter in the sefer Torah [שלומי כץ]

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Rabbi Michael Kruman, a brother of Rabbi Bentzion hy"d, writes a letter in the Sefer Torah  [שלומי כץ]

The Bitchkover Rebbe writes a letter in the sefer Torah  [שלומי כץ]

Rabbi Aryeh Deri writes a letter in the sefer Torah [שלומי כץ]

Mordechai Kruman, Rabbi Bentzion's son, writing a letter in the sefer Torah in his father's memory  [שלומי כץ]

Rabbi Nassan Landman  [שלומי כץ]

Rabbi Yaakov Kruman, a brother of Rabbi Bentzion hy"d  [שלומי כץ]

Rabbi Meislish  [שלומי כץ]

During the dancing  [שלומי כץ]

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The central dais  [שלומי כץ]

A part of the crowd at the seudah  [שלומי כץ]