Axelrod, Nathan

The eldest son of Helena and Hirsch (Gregory). Born on the 20th of Elul 5737 (August 20, 1977) in the Soviet Union, brother to Shlomo and Rachel, the family was “refused immigration” for several years, and Nathan, despite his youth, was very involved in his parents’ In fact, he was supposed to be born in Israel, although he did not know what Israel was, and in fact the declaration was a danger to the authorities.In 1987 he was ten years old when the Axelrod family immigrated to Israel, 100. From the early years of his life he was a diligent and outstanding student, who became accustomed to speaking in literary Hebrew and received compliments on his rich language. Anne attended school gave “Picker levels” from fourth grade until Friday. Then he went to middle school “Neve Yaakov” Neve Yaakov, and it continued to reside in high school, “Horev” grades nine through twelve. Rabbi Moti Alon, who was Nathan’s ninth grade teacher, told how surprised he was that a new immigrant was among the few who received 100 at the end of the year. Once he found old books thrown out of the high school library, he picked up a psychology book in English, went home and studied it alone. Later he helped a friend pass the matriculation exam in psychology thanks to the knowledge he accumulated when he learned from the book. Nathan liked to read and write. In the fifth grade he had already written a three-page poem and sang in front of his schoolchildren. In the army, too, he wrote a lot. During the period of his military service, Shir wrote a response to a poem called “Shomer of the City of Luz” (see Sotah Mo) written by his friend Pinchas Roth. The two songs were written in a watchtower in Mevo Shilo: “The flying birds have time to observe the guard of Hazel and the passengers of the cars.” He has time to wonder if he / she is whole / he has time to talk to God and / With the dust of the road. / And when you have to say ‘Let’s settle’ / He will calculate his ways from experience / And they will continue on their way without stopping / Because for them to turn around / This is a disgrace. Nathan left behind many writings on various subjects. “The fable of the grain – an apology and an excuse” – was completed in honor of HYPERLINK, the “birthday of his friend Benjamin”. In his article Dan discusses a short story of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and the possibility of implementing the message in our time. The protagonists of the story are the King and his advisor. The king asks for a solution: “When I see the stars, I see that all the grain that will grow in this year, whoever eat from it will become mad.” His adviser suggests eating from the grain but drawing a letter on the forehead. Nathan found that “the role of the letter and its use: they will remember, looking at him, that their behavior is strange, and they will not be allowed to be dragged after it for other things (they must not see it as the proper way of the earth.) The letter will tell them what They must do so that even in their new essence, their path will be correct, because everything that defines normality is behavior, the signal will not be a reminder of the present situation, but rather a leap to the proper state of medicine … One conclusion is different from the story to contemporary reality. This is apparently a ‘perversion’ and almost ‘the whole world’ suffers from it, from the story we hear a call not to be separated, but to go with her, father At the same time, we must constantly look at the letter inscribed on our forehead. ” He enjoyed spending time in front of the computer, loved reading books in Hebrew and Russian. And even though he was entitled to relief in high school and in high school, he gave them up and took the exams as “Israeli” in every respect – and succeeded very well. From his childhood he was attracted to maps. When he first arrived in Israel, he asked his parents to buy him a map of Jerusalem, which he memorized. When he was a high school student, he liked to travel in Israel,Or stroll through cities using the street map. As a young boy, he would travel on different buses from the start of the line to the finish point, while following the route with the help of a map of the city of Jerusalem. Natan naturally integrated into Israeli society and always felt that he belonged. Language difficulties were not an obstacle in the social sphere, he was always surrounded by friends and happy. The friends say that he recorded everyone’s birthdays in his diary and made sure to bless them, to give everyone a feeling that they care and think about him. Nathan was a good person. He never did evil to anyone and made sure not to speak loshon hora about a man. Pinchas said that “Nathan was a very special person, with an independent spirit and a burning soul, and he stood out on the horizon of his spiritual aspirations and endless concern for others.” In his hometown of Jerusalem, Natan continued his studies in the two years after high school, at the “Western Wall Yeshiva,” and then moved to Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut for another two years. As part of his studies at the hesder yeshiva, Natan enlisted on June 25, 1996, directly for artillery training. He served as a fighter in the Artillery Corps because he had a profile of 72, which is the most combatable unit he could reach. In October he began a rifle course on November 03 – a riding artillery course, and in April 1997 he moved to a gunner. He served in the security zone in Lebanon as a medium-sized battalion, and Natan was a very modest man and was very proud to be a fighter in the IDF. He never complained about anything, and in his military service-a service he saw as a right and a duty-there was no place for him to complain. He was a good soldier and an investor, and he was never punished. His friends say he always volunteered for the “shameful” cleaning work to be done with a cannon. As usual, he was an excellent friend who took care of everyone, and on Sukkot he built a sukkah for all the soldiers of the battery. Nathan suffered physical and health difficulties and during one of the trips he even fainted and was sent to hospital. He was offered an exemption from combat service, but he never agreed to give it up. On Friday, which was expected to be particularly hot, Nathan went on a trip to Nahal Arugot with a group of friends from the yeshiva. Towards midday, in the heat of forty degrees and up, Nathan felt bad and collapsed because of dehydration. The group had a paramedic who tried to provide first aid, but Natan passed away. Private Nathan Axelrod fell during his service on the 9th of Tammuz 5759 (9.7.1999), and he is twenty-two in his death. He was buried in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Survived by his parents, brother and sister. Rabbi Lichtenstein of the Har Etzion Yeshiva: “The desert is the symbol of search and courtship … You were among the searchers, seeking God, seeking life, seeking truth … seeking water as the simplest thing, Whiteol-the abandonment of all, and the most precious of all. You searched hard and hard … with a simple dedication, and with the wonderful support you received from your family, you managed to make a good progress. You did not let go, you were always looking to build and be built. You’ve built yourself with ten fingers, you’ve always been ambitious and searchable. Even when you were thirsty, you were not tired. You have combined on one hand a tone of innocence, wholeness with the ways and values ​​of the world within which you lived, and on the other hand you have tried to combine your personal path, including a Hassidic and even mystical aspect within that world. There was something about you that looked like water and a search for water … You came to buy Torah and you bought it. You came, on the rise itself and in the continuation, to buy the Land of Israel, and you bought. But in that country you also buy it – you buy it … The bereaved parents do not have words to calm the pain. You lost not only a firstborn son. You lost a son in his personality and through him fulfilled your dreams and desires. You lost a son, who was a spine, a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire, the son of the house who led and paved the way for the younger ones, who are supposed to follow his path,”Nathan was too complex a person to describe him in one way or another, but his whole qualities created a person of dear nature. Nathan looked at the world around him and took interest in it. It was not only general curiosity, he was interested in the details of everything. From his days in school, instead of painting castles, horses, and knights, he had drawn intricate systems of roads with elaborate lanes and branches, intersections and intersections. Nathan made sure to know the smallest details that no one else knew about even when the subject seemed trivial and marginal. His friends knew that if they had to reach one street or another in a particular city, the person who knew where the place was and where the bus was coming from was Nathan. But Nathan did not decide to collect the details. Any subject he studied or researched thoroughly would sum up in the form of an article, so that he would have a document that should be distributed, not because he intended to distribute it, but simply because that was the right way to consolidate the accumulated information and process the information acquired. It was part of Nathan’s world view. He saw everything in its broader context, always saw the big picture. For every question he asked, he would open the answer with his usual opening, “Look,” which comes out of his mouth with his special pronunciation. The questioner knew that he was not going to receive a simplistic answer or a simple and straightforward answer, but rather a broad separation of the subject and its components with detailed, meticulous, and profound analysis … The other side of his personality … was the moral aspect … Nathan was thinking about morality. Last year he tried to start a moral class, a forum where young men would meet and discuss moral problems. Neither theoretical problems nor personal morality, Nathan wanted to improve and correct public moral problems he saw in the yeshiva. Everyone remembers how from time to time he would come and remind us that one of the friends has a birthday and we should go to him and wish him good luck. It was not until the night before the trip that Nathan went to one of his friends with a satisfied smile, and wished him, with some solemn solemnity, congratulations for his twenty-third birthday (he even tried to give him twenty-three cakes for the occasion). This concern for Lambert, the smile of a man who is sure that no one, in a crowded meeting, full of busy people, will not remember his birthday – this concern underscored Nathan’s special morality. But this measure also matched and complemented Nathan’s intellectual side … There are things that are needed in the world and they have to be done in order for the picture to be perfect. Nathan was the one who made sure the picture was complete… Nathan was from the Vatican, he wanted to be the person backing up the durations. Thus, if, heaven forbid, there is no time to rise, the Vatican will not be abolished. But the commandment that he took care of, which was so characteristic of him, was his insistence on being the tenth of a minyan. This is the commandment whose essence is to constitute the last level, to fill in the gaps, to fulfill the minyan. It was Nathan when he got up and guarded for the morning and his soul to God. “Ariel Bir, another friend, wrote in his memory:” I was privileged and privileged to sit with Nathan, a man whom wisdom has revived. Curiosity and thirst for wisdom, intelligence and knowledge in any field were the most amazing things in Nathan’s. Almost every friend could talk to Nathan about any subject, and Lanthan always had something to add, to wake and illuminate … The concern and sensitivity to the individual, to each and every one, was in his soul. Those who got to know Natan closely knew how much he gave his heart to the subject, but those who did not get to know him so closely did not pay attention to this, because of the special way in which Nathan did these things. Nathan used to call everyone by his first name, because he believed that such a request to a person was more personal and cordial. Nathan always made sure that the smile would be on his face, a smile that even the poor man in the world could not ignoreFrom him, and when this smile was added to his rolling laugh, every tear was wiped away and they tried to grieve and sigh. Nathan was also very much in the company of young people in the yeshiva, the students who still did not find their place in it, and he made them feel self-respect and belonging to the yeshiva … This was Nathan’s way of doing small things that do not make much impression but require a lot of thought and caring. Things that come out of a huge heart of gold, enter into the heart of every man and spread all over his limbs and his pockets. But, as noted, he also gave knowledge to look at life in a more general and larger way. Nathan did not leave these ideas with him – he tried to improve the face of society. Nathan tried to enlist people in the yeshiva for his work, out of a desire to improve the social atmosphere in the yeshiva … Not many people have such a complex view of life, such a deep and real look. “His friends said that in the last period of his life Nathan wrote a detailed educational program on youth education. In connection with the secretary-general of Bnei Akiva and the head of his yeshiva, Rabbi Moti Alon, in order to implement the plan.