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“I switched,” said Yaacov ben Elul, pointing to the Tzohar certificate now on his wall and to the Palestinian cook working under it.

Overlooking the green hills, we stood under the huppah and blew the shofar, the ram’s horn, as is typical during the Hebrew month of Elul, though not commonly done at weddings.

“He sacrificed himself,” his sister, Bat Zion Elul, who made the decision to take him off life support, said in an interview with Channel 2 News broadcast on Friday.

Here follow the names of three witnesses and the scribe, the date being— “City of Sûqâain, month Elul, day 26th, year 11th, Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, king of Babylon.”

He blew his first shofar in a synagogue the year after his bar mitzvah, and he still blows daily at his Brooklyn synagogue during Elul, the Hebrew month preceding Rosh Hashana.