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As someone with family that suffered grievously in the Holocaust I found this touching. I was also impressed that he continued to wrap tefillin, there are days I forgot and this guy has gone a century!
"In an interview with Sichat Hashavua—a weekly circular published by Chabad in Israel—Kristal said that since his 13th birthday, he has wrapped tefillin every day, except for extreme circumstances during the two great wars.
As he stated: “Instead of being acclaimed as the world’s oldest man, I’d rather be known as the oldest and longest daily wearer of tefillin in the world.”
World's Oldest Man Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah 100 Years Late : The Two-Way : NPR
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/world/middleeast/worlds-oldest-man-bar-mitzvah.html
World?s Oldest Man to Celebrate 100 Years of Wrapping Tefillin - Approaching his 113th Jewish birthday, Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal will make history in more ways than one - Chabad-Lubavitch News
"In an interview with Sichat Hashavua—a weekly circular published by Chabad in Israel—Kristal said that since his 13th birthday, he has wrapped tefillin every day, except for extreme circumstances during the two great wars.
As he stated: “Instead of being acclaimed as the world’s oldest man, I’d rather be known as the oldest and longest daily wearer of tefillin in the world.”
World's Oldest Man Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah 100 Years Late : The Two-Way : NPR
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/world/middleeast/worlds-oldest-man-bar-mitzvah.html
World?s Oldest Man to Celebrate 100 Years of Wrapping Tefillin - Approaching his 113th Jewish birthday, Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal will make history in more ways than one - Chabad-Lubavitch News
