| | "We would pass through the Old City, go to Porat Yosef, they would tell us: 'Hey Jew, we'll soon slaughter you and take all your money!' That's what the Arabs would say in the West Bank, they would wait for it. We were in great trouble. May peace be upon Rabbi Yaakov Adas, he was my teacher, he took all the students, we went down to the Western Wall, Porat Yosef is near the Western Wall, he went down there, and made atonements, he was a public emissary. What tears, what tears, when he cried, all the students cried, who wouldn't cry, and everyone knows now is a time of trouble, the sword is against our necks, we are all in great trouble. Two days after that, two days, may God bless his name... he left everything. He went to hell, he went and did not return. And we survived. May His name be praised."</small></blockquote></ref> | | "We would pass through the Old City, go to Porat Yosef, they would tell us: 'Hey Jew, we'll soon slaughter you and take all your money!' That's what the Arabs would say in the West Bank, they would wait for it. We were in great trouble. May peace be upon Rabbi Yaakov Adas, he was my teacher, he took all the students, we went down to the Western Wall, Porat Yosef is near the Western Wall, he went down there, and made atonements, he was a public emissary. What tears, what tears, when he cried, all the students cried, who wouldn't cry, and everyone knows now is a time of trouble, the sword is against our necks, we are all in great trouble. Two days after that, two days, may God bless his name... he left everything. He went to hell, he went and did not return. And we survived. May His name be praised."</small></blockquote></ref> |