Abba-Zvi Bystrin, of blessed memory

From the depths of our hearts we express our deep condolences to our sister Chaya-Sara and to all their family, and together with them we weep over the great disaster that has befallen us: on Monday of the week of the Torah portion "and the whole house of Israel shall bewail the burning," the 24th of Nisan, there passed away her husband and their father, the perfectly righteous Abba-Zvi Bystrin, of blessed memory, aged seventy-three, who bore upon his shoulders the office of the rabbinate in the town of Drohiczyn on the Bug. May they be comforted among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

And among them also we: Eliezer Krutzel, his wife and their family; Esther-Rachel Segal, her husband and her family.