In Letter Found at Scene, Hebron Mosque Killer Asks to Be Admitted to Heaven as Righteous Jew

Hebron mosque killer Baruch Goldstein, in a letter he left behind in the shrine, repented his sins and appealed to God to admit him to heaven as a righteous Jew.

The Israeli inquiry into the Feb. 25 massacre of about 30 Muslim worshipers released the text of the letter Sunday night after giving Goldstein’s wife the original.

It consisted solely of hymns and prayers and gave no reason for the massacre.

“If, God forbid, I should die, may my death atone for all the sins and transgressions I have committed before You, and may You give me a place in heaven and admit me to the hidden world of the righteous,” wrote the U.S.-born settler, a religious Jew.

Goldstein titled the letter “A Brief Confession From the Bridge of Life.” It was found in a bag filled with ammunition clips next to his body after he was killed by survivors.

He ended the letter with two prayers: “Hear, O Israel,” which reaffirms faith in God and is recited when a Jew believes that he is near death, and “Master of the World,” a hymn in praise of God that ends with the words, “I shall fear not.”