Wailing mourners recited prayers from Book of Psalms. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a Chabad official from New York, delivered a moving eulogy for the young Rabbi and his wife and said 'We will answer the terrorists'.
He pledged to rebuild the Mumbai centre and name it after the Holtzbergs.
Emotions ran high as the Rabbi described Moshe, who was rescued by his Indian nanny from the clutches of terrorists, as the 'child of entire Israel'. Israeli TV stations had been repeatedly playing Moshe's heart-rending cries for his mother at a memorial ceremony in Mumbai.
"Moshe, you don't have a father and a mother to hold you in their arms. No parents to hug and kiss you," Rabbi Kotlarsky said, adding that the community would take care of the boy. "You are the child of entire Israel."
When the Chabad House will be rebuilt, it will be Moshe's 'home to return, to draw strength from', he said.
"We will not fight them (the terrorists) with AK-47s. We will not fight them with grenades. We will not fight them with tanks. We will fight them with torches," he said, referring to following the God's word.
Image: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and boys pray next to the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were among six Jews killed in the Mumbai attacks, at the start of their funeral at the Chabad headquarters in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv on December 2.
Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
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