Video: After 29 Years, Mother’s Dying Wish Fulfilled

When Matthew Jurgens‘ mother passed away when he only two years old, her last request from Rabbi Anchelle Pearl was for her son to have a Bar Mitzvah.

As time went by, and Matthew’s father remarried, he was instead baptized into the Catholic church.

As fate would have it, when Matthew turned 30, Rabbi Pearl contacted him to honor the promise he had made to Matthew’s mother decades before.

Matthew began to study and at the ripe age of 31, and was finally able to honor the memory of his mother and go through his adolescent rite of passage.

Click here to read the original news story published last month on CrownHeights.info.