We regret to report the Petirah of Rebbetzin Sarah Levovitz A”H, who was Niftar today at the age of 104.
Rebbetzin Levovitz was the wife of Rav Moshe Leib Levovitz ZT”L, and the daughter in-law of the saintly Mir Mashgiach, Harav Yeruchom Levovitz Zatzal.
Rebbetzin Levovitz was born in Brisk to her parents Rav Osher and Nechama Buchman Hy”d, and escaped the European inferno together with the Mir Yeshiva, and eventually settled in New York.
Rebbetzin Levovitz is survived by her children, Rav Yeruchom, Rav Nachman, Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, Rav Chaim Ozer, and Rebebtzin Rivka Rasha Goodman, wife of Rav Nissin Goodman , Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Tiferes Elimelech, and by scores of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren who follow in her footsteps.
The Levaya will take place today, Wednesday, February 15, at 5:30 pm in the Shomrei Hachomos chapel , 4218 Fort Hamilton Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11219. The Nifteres will then be flown to Eretz Yisroel, where she will be laid to rest on Har Hazeisim near her beloved husband, who was niftar in 1982.
Yehi Zichrah Baruch.
Quote: where she will be laid to rest on Har Hazeisim near her “beloved” husband, who was niftar in 1982.
This נוסח of “beloved husband” is straight out of the NY Times obituary section.
Amazing how out of this whole story about the passing of this choshuve woman , some people can be so small minded to focus on a word that they, wrongly, deem too unyeshivish or something. The love between a husband and wife wasn’t invented by the NY times, it has its roots in the Torah. Try reviewing Shir Hashirim, for starters.
Barch Dayan emes. What a loss. I know one of her granddaughters. She was a true Jewish queen. She lived for her children and grandchildren. She used to spend a long time ach Erev shabbos by candle lighting, praying for each of them by name. what a loss.
One of the reasons that she was zoiche to such arichas yomim is that she didn’t nit pick like #1.
Will there be a levaya in Eretz Yisroel as well?
You are an obtuse individual, #1.
As her great-nephew, she was zoche to such arichas yomim for being said beloved wife, mother, grand-mother and great-great-grandmother.
You and your ilk making comments about what an obituary from the NY Times looks like on the Internet, no less.
Take your holier-than-thou attitude and place it in an incinerator.
Dear #1: Even if your point was valid, which I don’t think it was, posting that comment, as opposed to posting something comforting to the family, or keeping quiet (can you imagine?!), was totally uncalled for.
Stop focusing on the externals of everything, and start loving all Jews, even if they look, act, think and write differently than you, and we will all be better off in the long run.
May her elevated soul be a meilitzah yeshara for the family and for all of klal yisrael.
To #1
You wrote your insane comment about 2 minutes after the item posted. Don’t you have better things to do than monitor the web?! I guess not.
Oh wow, bd”e. Amazing arichas yamim. She was the matriarch of a truly remarkable family. I know quite a few of the Levovitz family members, and I can say that her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, each in their own way, are a testament to her greatness. She was a link to a world that was, a world that, sadly, no longer exists beyond the history books.
not sure if she came with Mir from Europe and i dont think she ever saw her father in law the great Mir mashgiach zl. Her husband bypassed Shanghai and was able to come America before the Mir exiled to shanghai
#10,
She did indeed travel with the Mir from Europe, though she was able to come to the US from Japan with her husband due to her family already being there, before the group went to Shanghai
As for her meeting R’ Yeruchom, she never did, as he was Niftar in 36 and was engaged at the start of the war in 39.
1936, 1939