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Lubavitcher Couple Names Son After Leiby Kletzky

VIN News by Sandy Eller

MIAMI, FL — A Florida couple touched by the murder of Leiby Kletzky, named their son Ezriel Leib in memory of the Borough Park boy, at his bris this morning.

The six and a half pound baby boy was born last Wednesday evening, just hours after the gruesome discovery of the missing boy, and Shmuly and Shira Rudsky of Miami made the decision to give their son the name that had come to mean so much to so many.

“My wife and I were in the delivery room when we heard the tragic news,” said Shmuly Rudski in an interview with VIN News from his son’s bris at the Jewish Learning Center in Miami Beach. “We felt a connection. A Jewish child had been lost just hours before our son came into this world. From everything we had heard, Leiby had a special neshama and like so many others, his story touched us very deeply. We made the decision right then and there to honor Leiby’s memory by giving our son the name Leib.”

The Mohel Yochanan Klein, admits to being overwhelmed when he heard the name of the baby this morning.

“All I could think was mi k’amcha yisroel,” said Klein who is also the chaplain at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. “How a family in Miami could be so affected by something happening a thousand miles away that the first thing that goes through their mind after their son is born is that they want to name him after this boy? It is truly unbelievable.”

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15 Comments

  • Miamian

    Mazel Tov to the Rudski & Bortunk families. This was truly a beautiful and touching simcha!!

  • question

    Do the Kletztky know that someone gave a name for their son still in wk. of shiva. Zchus for the neshoma

  • Chana Malka upstate NY

    Mazal Tov to you and you should have much nachas and many simchas from your new baby boy Ezriel Leib

  • Dovid

    All I can aay is that this news piece brought tears to my eyes.
    Mi keamcha yisroel

  • mina richler

    wow, in this galus, it’s beautiful to see the ahavas yisroel we Jews have, how we truly are all one family. mazel tov and a lot of nachas.

  • Emotional

    Sitting here in my home reading this article brought many tears to my eyes.
    May Hashem bless this new beautiful baby boy Ezriel Leib and may he bring much nachas and happiness to klal yisroel.
    May we all merit the ultimate redemption of Moshiach NOW!

  • chaim

    and behashgocho protus the mohel was the best man i know rsbbi yochanon klein a mesiras nefesh yid who is always bussy helping ppl, special in the jacson memorial hospitol, god bless yochanon and his family

  • Dina

    What a beautiful thing to do. May this child be a source of much nachas to you and your family.

  • opinion

    we can make more in Leiby’s name. Every act of ahavas yisroel we do can be in his name. Can you imagine what it would do to increase ahavas yisroel ??

  • Am i missing something?

    I thought his name was Yehudah (not Yehudah Leib). The story is beautiful, but interesting that they named after his nickname, which has nothing to do with his real name.