2020-2021 On Saturday night, 12 Kislev 5721, the volunteer Rabbi Chaim Rechnitzer z"l, one of the heads of ZAKA Tel Aviv and a member of the Chevra Kadisha, who died while purifying the deceased in the Hospital of the Eyes of Salvation, was brought to rest. Words written after the bed of a volunteer chesed man and a member of the board of directors of ZAKA Tel Aviv. My uncle went down to our garden to pick roses, it's not a cliché, that they take from us the roses, the beautiful flowers in the garden, the best in the bed. Haim z"l was the best of the group, the bright rose that radiates on the environment, which was suddenly picked from us and from most of the time he was active and energetic we did not know that he had filled the days of our years. Shock, utter amazement gripped us all, when we heard about the gospel. And here again is a message that the pulse has returned and we already thought that perhaps this was another chapter in the presentation of the "resurrection" with which he was good at making a groom happy on the day of his wedding, wherever he was invited and without compensation, like everything he did for the other in his life. But no, Hashem gave and Hashem also took, and only the legacy remained for us. How can Chaim be eulogized, only last Tuesday he sat with us at a board meeting of the ZAKA organization, was full of energy, vital as always, full of spirit and life. On Thursday, he brought me the beeper that wasn't working to fix it. But "Mazalya Hezi" and at the end of the meeting asked to raise a proposal for an order, here we come in the days he said and it is appropriate to put in my place younger than me and it was in our eyes to the riddle, that in "Malva Malka", this time there was a funeral, was solved. A life that was full and overflowing, in awe of heaven, in holiness and purity, a life in which there is, a life full of meaning and content. For everything, at every event, he had the value aspect, the Kiddush Hashem, he would comment and enlighten us on how it is appropriate and desirable to act and if necessary to make a rabbi's question. He lived with his friends, made sure to participate in every celebration even if it involved walking on Shabbat. You were a close friend and I had the experience of being in your company that has now been allowed. Despite the age gap, in the degree of equanimity, we have worked shoulder to shoulder for the sacred mission of true grace and now please we come. The fracture is terrible, just a few months ago we accompanied another friend who died of the terrible virus and now a fracture on Shabbat we have been broken. I will end with a quote from the eulogy of the late Haim about his friend Rafi Sheinfeld z"l, and the words are beautiful to say: "In a jovial way, you can conclude that he dealt a lot with "martyrs", but for us he left a huge "void" and who will give us in return for it." [Published in the newspaper "The Informant" the day after the funeral]
