Beth El Temple Recognizes Member Who Died 9/11 [VIDEO]

It was another beautiful Sept. 11, nearly as brilliant as it was a decade ago.

Outside in the small confined playground adjacent to the on Concord Avenue, a group of men making up the Temple's Brotherhood – who fill many important roles within the congregation through a variety of social, religious, cultural and educational activities – gathered in a 'minyan,' the ten members required by the Talmud for public worship or a blessing.

On this Sunday, the prayer was for a new member of the Temple who boarded a plane at Logan Airport ten years before on a trip to Los Angeles.

Paul Friedman would never return to his wife and child, the Temple or his hometown. He would be one of 3,000 victims of the most horrific terrorist attack in the nation's history, one of the first to die that day as American Airlines Flight 11 was piloted into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. 

The Brotherhood and members of the Beth El congregation were assembled to recite the 'kaddish,' the prayer that denotes the magnification and sanctification of God's name, a blessing for the dead. 

They were praying outside to be close to the park bench that was placed in the playground a few years ago by Friedman’s widow, Audrey Ades, and the Temple.

A plaque invites parents as they watch their children play to think of Paul, who would not be able to see his own child grow into adulthood.