{"id":11043,"date":"2026-07-07T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/senza-categoria\/a-lunch-and-a-testimony\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:02:25","slug":"a-lunch-and-a-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/articles\/a-lunch-and-a-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"A lunch and a testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jewish Community of Turin together with the Mizrachi Family <\/strong><\/p>\n

During the Jewish year 5786, which will end in a couple of months, the beautiful custom\u2014which I hope will continue in 5787\u2014of communal Shabbat <\/em>meals at least once a month has become established. Until now, we’ve had multiple dinners, but last Saturday, July 4th, it was instead a lunch, undoubtedly easier to manage during the summer months.
\nAnd that’s not the only reason why it was an exception. This time there was not only the joy of being together, studying, discussions, singing, and cheer, but also an extremely sad and touching, painful and necessary moment: the testimony of a mother, Dikl\u00e0 Mizrachi<\/strong>, whose son, Ben Menash\u00e8 Mizarachi z\u201dl<\/strong>, was killed on October 7, 2023. Ben had left his family in Canada to move to Israel and had participated in the Nova Festival<\/em>, like many other young people; from the testimonies of his friends, it appears that during the terrorist attack he perhaps could have saved himself, but he chose instead to stay to help others. With calm and for this very reason even more poignant words, Dikl\u00e0 recalled those terrible days: the phone call in the middle of the night between Friday and Saturday, which is already a warning signal for a family observing Shabbat. A false hope given by a previous hospitalization that incorrectly listed her son’s name among the injured. The long hours of flight from Canada to Israel. And finally, the news a mother never wants to hear: they found him. “We were \u201cLucky,\u201d Dikl\u00e0 said paradoxically, thinking of the families who had to wait not days but months and years to learn the fate of their loved ones and to have their bodies returned.
\nThe testimony, already terrible in itself, affected us even more because Dikl\u00e0 is the aunt of Roy Mizrachi, a young man who lives and studies in Turin and is very present in the life of our community. Therefore, the tragedy of October 7th touched us even more closely than perhaps some of us believed.
\nIt was certainly a very sad moment, but also intense because we had the opportunity to get to know Ben at least a little and remember him all together, trying to convey, as much as possible, our embrace to Dikl\u00e0 and his family.
\nAfter the testimony, we all sang together a song that Ben loved dearly, \u201cAli di Vento,\u201d<\/em> written by Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook. <\/p>\n

Son of man,
\n<\/em>rise up, rise up.
\n<\/em>Arise, arise, son of man.
\n<\/em>Rise up, rise up.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Because you possess immense strength,
\n<\/em>you have wings of the wind,
\n<\/em>wings of mighty eagles.
\nDo not deny them,
\nlest they deny you.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Seek them\u2014seek them, son of man,
\nand they will be returned to you immediately. <\/em><\/p>\n

To listen to the song click on the following LINK<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To view Ben Mizrachi’s Instagram page<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Anna Segre<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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