2/19/2023 0 Comments Lag b omer 2021![]() But over the last 72 hours, the countless stories I have heard about you from people I know and even those I don’t shows how you touched so many lives with your kindness and huge heart.” “You were an amazing, son, grandson, nephew, cousin, student, friend and sibling to your sister and brother,” she said of her son. “We all always knew how wonderful you were. ![]() Mirlana Morris acknowledged the “army of the most special people” who helped in the search effort for her son and in making arrangements for the funeral. More than 70,000 people have since watched the video online. Thousands of people were in attendance at Morris’s funeral on Sunday, and tens of thousands more tuned in to the livestream. Bonfires are part of the tradition there and throughout the country. More than 100,000 worshippers had gathered at Mount Meron as they do annually to mark the holiday, gathering to visit the gravesite of the influential second-century sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and study texts. On April 30, he was killed along with 44 others in a tragic incident related to overcrowding.Ī mass of men and boys leaving one of the festive events was forced through a narrow alleyway, and after some people slipped, the group surged forward, crushing and suffocating those who fell underfoot. Nachman Doniel (“Donny”) Morris, 19, was a first-year student at Yeshivat Sha’alvim in central Israel when he traveled last week to Meron in Israel’s north to attend traditional Lag B’Omer celebrations. ![]() ![]() Daddy and I couldn’t be prouder to call you our son.” “But what I do know for sure is you were loved by so many,” she said. “The impact you have had on hundreds of people is remarkable. (JNS) With a cracking voice and tears in her eyes, Donny Morris’s mother, Mirlana Morris, eulogized her son. “I have so many questions,” she said through sobs, “but little to no answers.” Mirlana Morris to her son, Donny: ‘You touched so many lives with your kindness’ ![]()
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