Moshe wants his bar mitzvah at Chabad House in 2020

January 18, 2018 19:20

Dr Kuresh Zorabi, now partially based in Australia, also attended the memorial service held for Moshe Holtzberg's parents Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg, along with Gavriel's parents, Rivka's parents, Chabad Mumbai's rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, Moshe's nanny Sandra Samuel (pic here) who saved him on 26/11 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Zorabi was the Holtzbergs' neighbour and ran an eye clinic around the corner from Chabad House/Nariman House. His family owns the 24x7 Rex Bakery that bakes round the clock some of Colaba's best piping hot soft and kadak pao, exactly opposite Nariman House.

The bakery got peppered with terrorist bullets and the staff barely escaped with their lives by hiding in the backrooms. The bullet marks are still enshrined on the wall of the bakery.

The ophthalmic surgeon described the emotional sendoff Moshe was given by both the Mumbai and Israeli rabbis with the Hindi song Sabse badi baat, sabse badi baat as a lovely moment, reports Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com.

One of the rabbis present knew Moshe when he was a toddler of two but Moshe naturally could not remember him, recalls Dr Zorabi.

So moved was Moshe by the whole experience that he wants his Bar Mitzvah ceremony done at Chabad House in 2020, when he is 13 years old.

In this interview with Vaihayasi from December 2008, Dr Kuresh Zorabhi speaks about the Holtzbergs.

In photograph alongside: Moshe Holtzberg with his maternal grandparents Yehudit Rosenberg, Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg and Dr Kuresh Zorabi. Moshe lives with the Rosenbergs in Afula, Israel.

This photograph shows Moshe's paternal grandparents Freida and Nachman Holtzberg, who live in New York, with Dr Zorabi.

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