Liba Lieberman

To write about the petirah of a ten-year-old child feels all wrong. I want someone to stop me and tell me it is all a mistake. That nothing happened. That a freak, tragic accident did not take the life of Aron Sholom Tepfer a”h, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tully and Rachel Tepfer of Cedarhurst, whose petirah took place on Shabbos. Aron Sholom was seriously injured when he struck his leg against a stationary boat propeller in Reynolds Channel off Atlantic Beach. He was first brought to the closest hospital, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, but was later rushed to Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Despite the heroic efforts of the emergency personnel and doctors, Aron’s precious and pure neshamah left this world on Shabbos morning. The levaya took place on Sunday morning at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, where Aron was a student and where his mother is an elementary school teacher.