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Very Advanced Level – רמה מתקדמת מאד
The Tzadik (extremely righteous person) from Bibas Street
David Sabo, the artist and musician, was one of the special residents of Nachlaot.
David made Aliyah from Europe after his entire family died in the Holocaust.
He lived alone, in one room in Nachlaot in Jerusalem. The room was "furnished"
with a brass bed and two stools. But, the walls of his room told his story. The
shelves were filled with small pails and boxes of paint, paint brushes, music
notebooks, records, drawings, and albums.
All the residents of the neighborhood called him "David the musician". He was
beloved and admired by young and old alike, many of whom learned painting and
music from him, always for free, of course.
David played flute and accordion at many family celebrations that took place in the
neighborhood and never asked for anything in return. He also distributed a large
portion of his money, a small government stipend, to the needy in the neighborhood.
Once he distributed everything he had won in the lottery.
He would help the elderly residents of the neighborhood. In the winter he would
repair their kerosene heaters and in the summer he would paint their homes with
whitewash. Everyone called him "a closed Torah Ark".
David was the only Ashkenazi Jew in the neighborhood but when he died all the
residents insisted upon making him a funeral in the Middle Eastern style as a
symbolic gesture because, as they said, "David was one of us".
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