The sudden death of the bride Shani Levi-Berdichevsky, just before celebrating her last of sheva brachos, stunned her acquaintances who mourn the great loss. She was electrocuted in her own home R”L.
The bride and her family together with her widowed husband, Danny Berdichevsky, belonged to the “Shaagas Aryeh” community in Tirat HaCarmel headed by Rabbi Yechezkel Rubin, who tells of the couple’s fortune until their wedding together as well as reconstructing the terrible tragedy.
“It’s a traditional family,” Rabbi Rubin says of the bride’s family, “Shani has been in the process of becoming religiously observant for four years, and her husband Danny, has started to grow stronger in the past year. His parents, who are Ukrainian, are strongly opposed. They live in the Krayot and therefore, when his parents would meet with him from time-to-time, Danny wore a kippa sruga due to their strong opposition to him becoming chareidi, feeling this would be less offensive to them.
Rabbi Rubin relates that Danny came to the community of Shaagas Aryeh through his friends who were members of the community and thus began to become stronger in his observance. “From time-to-time he would travel to Jerusalem for a few days to absorb the atmosphere, while telling his parents he was traveling abroad,” says the rabbi.
During the conversation, Rabbi Rubin returns to the difficult moments of Sunday, 29 Menachem Av, the last of their sheva brachos, in which the kallah died of electrocution. “The last sheva brachos was supposed to be in their home,” he says. “We gave the kovod to her father as a cantor, to be shaliach tzibur for Mincha. Before Maariv, rumors began to circulate that something had happened.”
“Her husband found her lying in the bathtub,” says Rabbi Rubin. “The water was not even open, but nevertheless, the electric problem was so severe, that only touching the faucet caused electrocution. There were electricity problems there, with the circuit breaker jumping often. The landlord sent them a local electrician who apparently did something temporary, albeit without doing the minimum he should. This is truly death by negligence,” the rabbi concluded.
“She has kept kedusha and tahara all these years,” the rabbi eulogized the kallah in pain, adding “she has been a chareidi for some time already [referring to the nifteres].”
Rabbi Rubin adds that it is hard for him to communicate with Danny’s parents. “It was exactly at the wedding that the relationship between them began to improve and I was amazed at how the father actually wept with excitement and joy, and they just accepted that their son became chareidi,” he added in a pained voice.
The body was released by police and the levaya was on Sunday afternoon in Tirat HaCarmel.
Baruch Dayan Ha’emes
Israel is a leader in technology yet they can’t produce better electricians?!😬😠
Hashem!!!
Such a beautiful girl. Im so sorry. Lively girl. Its terrible.
Bs”d I am writing this as someone who came to Israel 26 years ago from a Western European country with very high safety standards. Obviously a government that according to US Heritage House has an integrity rating of 41% and spends 220 Billion nis of tax funds – half of them on itself and its 26 ministries (one ministry the M of Housing has in turn 26 sub-units, while I would not be surprised if in that Ministry there are a few hundred thousand Jews waiting for affordable housing around Israel) in short this kind of government so far has… Read more »
this kalla looks so regal inside and out, cannot describe, someting so special about her, unless its my imagination
This does not sound like a new problem.Why was the land lord renting an appt. that was not safe? Was he greedy for money? Sounds like a complete electrical and plumbing overall was needed before this place was safe to live in.I have a son who trained as a plumber and this tragedy did not have to happen.Sounds like living in a tent would have been safer,If a couple cannot afford a safe place to live,perhaps they should wait to be married.
understood, but the question is, whose negligence? if this was reported to the landlord as a problem and he/she failed to act on it immediately then it is indeed negligence and, as you point out, possibly worse. however, if this was newly reported and the landlord sent in the repairman when he was informed of the situation then i wouldn’t label that negligence. after all, a problem must first manifest before it can be addressed.
It needs investigation
Landlord vicariously liable and if repairman at fault and repairman competent insurance will pay out
However there is criminal element, manslaughter
It is not an accident
It was negligence of enormous proportion
i mean, if the family can benefit from some type of liability insurance that would be good, but why paint the landlord as an ogre? seems to me he/she sent someone in to take care of a reported problem and the repairman was incompetent. why blame the landlord?
horrible BDE
This is just heartbreaking! (And i agree with an earlier poster that there are too many unneccessary details)
Oy vey!!! Moshiach Moshiach Moshiach! !!!!!!!
boruch dayen haemes may her neshama go up in peace
We need Moshiach now!!
BDE SHOCKING TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT KNOW HOW TO PURSUE TAX AND FRAUD CASES BUT WHAT ABOUT REGULATING NEGLIGENCE LIKE THIS
Hashem yishmor!!!
Enough enough enougj
I’m so sorry for you lost…may we merit moshiach right now!
It’s terrible that this article has to go into so many adjectives and other nonsense to tell the story. A Jew died, in the time that she and everyone around her should have felt joy there was tragedy. We should all mourn to the point that hashem refuses to hold back moshiach anymore.
Mourn achim! , we should all mourn to the point where our sorrow climbs to shamayim and all they hear from us is heart wrenching tears!
Baruch Dayan Emes!
This is a tragedy of enormous proportion.
Landlord and his electrician needs to held fully accountable
Not only financially but criminally too
It is incumbent on the Rabbi and the community to facilitate that by not allowing the enormity to be forgotten or swept under the corporate carpet
The township must be actively involved to ascertain no landlord feels it is worthwhile to cut corners on essential maintenance and repairs.
Israel needs to do something about the poor electricity regulations. Not the first death I’m hearing about due to electric issues there. The govt needs to up their game.
Terrible news! We need moshiach now!!