01.08.2011                      01.Aw-Elul, 5771

Baba Elazar:

‘I believe it was pure holiness’

Follower of Baba Elazar talks of the slain rabbi, says “Nobody who had so much in body and spirit had such discipline in serving God."

The sudden and traumatic demise of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, who was stabbed to death overnight Thursday in his Beersheba yeshiva, has left thousands of his followers mourning and perplexed.
What made Abuhatzeira, known as the Baba Elazar, so special to the scores of people from all walks of life who sought his blessing and advice? …