By COLlive reporter
Photos: Shneur Schiff
Mira Scharf, who dedicated her life to spreading Yiddishkeit in India, was laid to rest in a heartbreaking funeral ceremony in Jerusalem Thursday.
The Kedosha who was visiting Israel with her family was one of the three Jews killed by terrorist rocket fire from Gaza.
Among the participants at the Givat Shaul cemetery were Israeli youngsters who met Scharf and her husband Rabbi Shmulik Scharf during their trekking in New Delhi.
“She was modest and gentle,” said M.S., a friend of hers living in the Indian Capital. “She literally gave her life so that women would learn the laws of family purity.”
She said the local Jewish community was devastated to hear the tragic news and have been calling the center the Scharfs ran with dedication.
Rabbi Scharf, who was injured in the attack on Kiryat Malachi’s Nachalas Har Chabad neighborhood, has successfully undergone surgery and is hospitalized in the Tel Hashomer medical center.
He was notified about his wife’s death a short while before the funeral.
Their two daughters, 2 years-old and 8 months old, are hospitalized as well. Their 4 year old son is suffering from injuries as well.
“Mira came from a non-Chabad home,” a classmate of Mrs. Scharf said. “After doing her own research, she became very connected to the Chabad lifestyle and the Rebbe’s teachings, joining Beis Chana in Jerusalem.”
“From the Chassidic point of view, she was an example to everyone. She always wanted to learn and know more. She was never apathetic and would learn maamarim and sichos and further her knowledge of Chassidus at her own initiative.”
I HOPE ISREAL WINS THE WAR
CUT TO THE CHASE…AD MOSAI WITH BITTER TEARS, FROM THE DEPTHS OF OUR HEART!!! PLEASE LET US ALL CUT TO THE CHASE; WE DO NEED TO FIGHT & PROTECT OUR SELVES,WE DO NEED TO INCREASE IN TZNIUS, ACHDUS, DAVEN WITH KAVANA, T’SHUVA IN GENERAL, (which can take merely a moment) BUT PLEASE REMEMBER THE REBBE’S BOTTOM LINE: WE HAVE DONE EVERYTHING WE COULD, NOW ALL THIS IS LEFT IS TO PREP. OURSELVES & THE WORLD FOR MOSHIACH… DO WHAT YOU CAN HERE & NOW TO BRING MOSHIACH, WHATEVER IT TAKES, MAYBE THERE WILL BE 10 AKSHONIM OR EVEN 3 WHO… Read more »
she came from a slonimer chasidim family
Thank you,. You speak for us all. Moshiach now!
May the almighty avenge her blood and the family find comfort.
To those theorizing above, I can only cry, where were you during the gaza expulsion and surrender ? I spent almost dollar I had, I nearly lost my business, I gave up months of my life to a real stark visible danger to all of eretz yisrael!!
Why do you all talk only of doing torah and mitzvos and mivtzoim when the focus also must be on eretz yisrael..
Open karasi v’en oneh and read what the Rebbe said “Shlaimus haam haaretz and shlaimus hatorah”
wow. beautiful. want u to know that i made a hachlata in ahavas yisroel because of your comment.
wish more people were like you…
As to the question of what the 1 Kislev coincidence means, there are different possible explanations, but here’s one: There’s a statement in the Gemara that the dead of a tzaddik atones for the generation (Moed Katan 28a). That is, sometimes there is a judgment hanging over the Jewish people, or over particular Jews, and sometimes Hashem in His mercy picks a tzaddik to die instead of allowing a greater amount of death and suffering to happen to other Jews. The shluchim killed on Rosh Chodesh Kislev illustrate that engaging in kiruv is a great act of righteousness that has… Read more »
Israel shouldn’t concentrate all its efforts on Gaza… this might be a ploy by Stupid Iran to divert attention from north, where Iran can at anytime send in nuclear missiles. Israel would have its hands full.
true there are no good explanations wrote: however where the Rebbe specifically said there are things we in NY (& Chutz-Laaretz) can do to prevent blood shed & tragedies like these from re-occurring, we need to take his words seriously! its for our own well being that the Rebbe alerted us as to WHAT WE CAN DO to stop such things & instead bring all sorts of blessings to our family & communities: 1. Daily Chitas Rambam (even 5min is better than nothing) 2. Regular du“ch ch”hn to Aseh Lecha Rav (personal mentor) 3. Make time daily to be involved… Read more »
Dont forget Hakadosh Baruch Hu !!!! Torah, HKB”H and Am Yisrael are One and Chai Vekayam… Time to get a Torah values Government in Israel, everyone should vote to remove Netanyahu and Barack and put in someone like Feiglin, he’ll take care of Gaza the right way….
as number 3 said…two shluchos murdered on the same day as we celebrate the Rebbe getting well…..What message is this for us? Is there not even ONE leader among us who will stand up and speak and give us some chizuk and sorely needed guidance?
#3 is correct. I think it’s an achdus issue. Chabad leaders – where are you??? Help us to get it together!!!!
For giving her the due recognition!!
I feel like it was yesterday when Nomi, Shaina , Mimi & I. Set out to travel to Rishikesh unable to buy train tickets due to Indias craziness we headed to their Chabad House to figure it out…While helping us figure out the safest way to go ie. buying a train ticket in Bazar or taxing?! Us being starved as well they served us & other Israeli backpackers warm, delicious dinner (if i remember correctly it was really late at night..) Yes, thats when i got to meet the Tzadekes Mira a’h & family. Wow the lives that they live.-… Read more »
Is it not sad enough to hear this sad news. Why do we have to see the bodies, the kriah etc. and have them available for years. We have to get on with life !
WHY CANT OUR ISRAELI TZAHAL WAKE UP AND DESTROY THE ENEMY WHO BOASTS OF ITS CHARTER TO DESTROY ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE CHAS V’SHALOM. HASHEM YISHMIRAINU!!
THERE WILL BE NO PEACE UNTIL THE ENEMY RECOGNIZES OUR RIGHT TO EXISTS MEANWHILE DO NOT TREAT JEWISH BLOOD CHEAPLY. DETROY THE ENEMY! PROTECT OUR JEWISH PEOPLE
Tomorrow and from here and on As the Rebbe directed us When you say “Es Tzemach Dovid Avdecha M’haira Satzmiach” and V’sechezena Ainainu B’shuvcha L’tzion B’rachamim in Shemone Esrai MEAN IT WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART AND SOUL!! WE CANNOT TAKE THIS GOLUS ANOTHER MOMENT! WE MUST GET MOSHIACH TO COME IMMEDIATELY!!
Please Hashem Rachmanus on your Yiddishe Kinderlach! No more pain, no more sorrow…We need and Deserve Moshiach Now!! After all the Rebbe said “Even one good little deed can tip the scale..we’ve done sooo many good deeds, big and small. Let Hashem recognize our Good Side “V’ameich Kulom Tzaddikim”! Dalai Tzaros! Dalai Golus! Geulah Achshav!!
ad mosai!!!?????? n’eNow
Yasher Koach. Achdus now = Moshiach now.
WHY,?!!,!,,!?!!!!??!!?!?!!!
he,s right just accept others as they are yechi not yechi geza not geza sefarad ashkenazi litvish chassidish we have enough ennemies who want our destruction why fight among ourselves???????????
Your words are so true! If only everyone would take to heart what you say!!
WE NEED ACHDUS TO BRING MOSHIACH!!
Enough of all this suffering!!
Enough with the politics and ego and sinas chinum among lubavitchers!! Lets just all work together as UNITED CHASSIDIM to accomplish the main goal that the Rebbe spoke so much about! BRING MOSHIACH!!
enough already! we need moshiach!
such a terrible tragedy! 🙁
So true and so eloquent and so heartbreaking. Dvorim Hayotzim min Halev, nichnosim el halev.
We need achdus.NOW.
Dear Fellow Chassidim, Two major tragedies have befallen our fellow Shluchim on this auspicious day of Rosh Chodesh Kislev. V’Hachai Yiten El Libo. Please fellow Chassidim stop the pirud. Let’s concentrate on the things that unite us. We have ONE Rebbe, ONE 770, and ONE Tafkim – to do the rotzon of the Rebbe. There may be chassidim who fulfill the Rotzon differently than yourself, but they are still OUR fellow Chassidim; they still have a place in the Rebbe Shul; we can still unite for Teffilos downstairs in 770; we can still attend their simchos; we can still entertain… Read more »
Ad mosai…Does anyone know her family background? It seems that the speakers and much of the crowd is chassidish?
Any news about her husband & children?