Rabbi Yair Binstock is the rabbi of the Zayit Raanan synagogue in Efrat and secretary-general of the Ezra youth movement. Following are excerpts from his eulogy delivered at the funeral of Maia and Rina Dee Hy”d on Sunday.

Rabbi Kook teaches us that death is an illusion. Death seems like it is the end, but the truth is that death is actually a door through which a person passes to a world that is all good – to higher worlds. Rina and Maia are now close to G-d, and we must remember that there is a world beyond, that the reality before our eyes is temporary and momentary, and that we are truly expected to live our lives with this awareness, giving and doing, in holiness.
Maia and Rina exemplified this. Anyone who met them and saw their huge smiles that accompanied all their volunteer work, teaching and influencing others, met people who led their lives according to parameters taken from a higher world.
This is exactly the opposite of our enemies who have risen up against us. The terrorist who murdered them thought he would be able to end life and stop the story because he lives in a world of illusion where death is the end.
But Rina and Maia’s work cannot be stopped by a bullet, because their lives were illuminated by the light of a world beyond. These are things that cannot be stopped, and their lives continue to intensify through us.