Doron, Dearest Doron

Doron (Taruno) Maraheta was 26 and from Ashdod. An Ethiopian immigrant, he and his parents lived right across the street from me in Ashdod. Doron was one of the Ethiopian Jews who preferred to pray with the Melitzer Rebbe's congregation rather than in his community's synagogue on the weekends when he'd come home from Yeshiva. Doron was also the first Ethiopian Jew to be called up to the Torah in the Melitzer Shul.
Emuna Outreach has been especially active within the Ethiopian community in Ashdod. As such, Doron would attend my Friday night Torah Talks for Ethiopian Jewish youth. We became good friends. It was such a pleasure to see him flower as a true Prince of Torah in Mercaz HaRav.
Doron, dearest Doron, your were the epitome of everything that's holy and beautiful. Seeing your personal odyssey from Ethipoia to Ashdod to the hallowed halls of Torah in Jerusalem was seeing the prophecy of Redemption come alive. Only Hashem knows the scar that your sweet memory leaves on our hearts. Please beg Hashem in our behalf to send Moshiach now.