Moshe Mizrahi, who is on the autistic continuum, celebrated a bar mitzvah and surprised everyone when he put on tefillin and said: "Hear Israel" • The mother burst into tears: "Conquer the class"
Against all odds and in the eyes of his astonished family members, Moshe Mizrahi (13), a boy on the autistic continuum, put on tefillin and said "Shma Yisrael" last Thursday.
Exciting documentation: A boy on the autistic continuum put on tefillin against all odds and expectations // Photo: Courtesy of the family
Moshe, who usually barely speaks, surprised his family when, for 40 minutes, he repeated word for word the blessings of Rabbi Mandy Blinitzky of the Chabad Chassidim.
The family, who were in solitary confinement until last Thursday, organized the bar mitzvah "from now until now" in a synagogue in the Hatikva neighborhood of Tel Aviv, their city of residence, with members of the immediate family in light of the Korona guidelines.
The boy did not prepare in advance and cooperated as much as possible with the rabbi, this to the surprise of his family members because he usually does not speak more than a few words, so they did not even try to teach him the affair because no one believed he was capable of it.
Liat, Moshe's mother, burst into tears in light of the moving play, and the whole family joined in her tears.
"I have two children with moderate mental retardation, and four years ago the eldest ascended to the Torah, he refused and my husband ascended in his place, this is exactly what we thought would happen this time as well. What's more the whole family got sick in Corona So we did not have time to prepare. "
"Every day I help Moshe in everything. He does not dress or shower alone and speaks a few words. The rabbi turned to me and I told him - try. But I did not believe, no one believed he would be so attached to it, he just conquered the class, he was one hundred percent "Inside. They saw on his face how excited he was and I burst into tears, everyone cried with me."
Moshe is a trainee at the Tzuri Center in Tel Aviv of the Chimes Association, an organization that works to improve the quality of life and full participation in the community of people with disabilities.
