A sefer Torah is being written for the Kibbutz Be’eri shul in memory of Elchonon Klemanzon, who was murdered while rescuing dozens or even hundreds of people from the kibbutz on October 7.
When Klemanzon, a resident of Atniel in the Chevron Hills, heard what was happening on October 7, he was called up for reserve duty but not ordered where to report.
Without hesitation, he, his brother Menachem, and a cousin Itiel, headed to the Gaza envelope. Commandeering a military armored vehicle abandoned on the roadside, they entered the kibbutz, which had been seized by Hamas terrorists, and began evacuating people under fire.
After hundreds of rescues and 14.5 consecutive hours of combat, a terrorist hiding in a house shot Elchanan and mortally wounded him.
Menachem, Elchonon’s brother, who also assisted in the effort to rescue the residents of Be’eri, said at the emotional gathering, “There are 600,000 letters in the sefer Torah corresponding to the 600,000 souls of Yisroel. If one letter is missing, then the entire scroll is deficient. The sefer Torah teaches us that there is a place for everyone in the sefer Torah and in all its letters.
“Elchonon fought so that no letter would be missing in the sefer, so that no person would be lacking.”
{Matzav.com Israel}