By COLlive reporter
Avrohom Dovid Liberow, the 9 year-old son of a Chabad Shliach in New York, was killed in a Wednesday night car crash.
Rabbi Zalman Liberow was traveling back with his family from a wedding in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when a tractor-trailer lost control on Interstate 80 in Western Pennsylvania, crossing over the median and hitting the minivan they were in.
The fatal multi-vehicle-crash occurred shortly before 10:00PM Wednesday evening, Yeshiva World News reported. Although not confirmed, Police believe freezing rain may have caused the crash.
At 10:30PM a friend of the family asked COLlive.com to post a Tehillim notice for Schneur Zalman ben Dabrusha and his son who remained stuck in the vehicle.
But shortly thereafter he called again and asked to remove the boy’s name. “It’s too late,” he said with a heavy heart.
Another passenger, Pesha Leah Azoulay of Crown Heights, was killed too.
Rabbi Liberow, Director of Chabad of Flatbush since 1992, is in critical condition.
His wife, Mrs. Chana Liberow (daughter of Rabbi Zusha Posner of Israel), and 3 other children who were in the vehicle are reportedly in stable condition B”H.
Rabbi Mendel Sasonkin, Director of Chabad of the nearby Akron, Ohio, and organizations Chesed Shel Emes and Misaskim worked tirelessly until 3:00AM with the Pennsylvania State Police to have the bodies released as soon as possible.
The funeral will be held today, leaving from Shomrei Hadas at 1:30 pm, will pass by the Chabad House in Flatbush at 2:00 pm, and will pass by 770 at 2:30 pm.
Donations for the family: Zev Cadaner 324A New York Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213 (checks should be made out to L.Y.O.).
Baruch Dayan Haemes.
In honor of pesha’s upcoming fifth yartziet. May we see her with moshiach b4 then.
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#52 & 53: Tshuva, Tfilah U-Tzedakah Ma’avirin es Ro’ah Hagzera: Repentance, Prayer & Charity, alters the evil decree: The question was asked; How can there be a “Ro’ah Gzera”? How can there be an evil decree? How can anything that Hashem does, be even CONSIDERED bad, let alone evil ?! The answer is that an individual that does absolute Tshuva with a heavy heart, AND Davens to Hashem with full Kavana as if he is actually talking to Hashem face-to-face, AND consistently gives Tzedakah with true loving kindness and gladness; THAT kind of person will BEGIN to comprehend that what… Read more »
When life’s problems seem overwhelming, it helps to look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself far more Blessed than you imagined.” …….thank you for your prayers!!!!
hashem please bring moshiach now! to much suffering has gone on we need moshiach now!!
a boy from yossis class o.t shir bais
please help this familly donate something,anything $1,2,3 or 100 if you can, please ……..they will need it. hashem will repay you a 1000 times. and dont forget the girls familly.baruch dayane haemet……..besorot tovot amen
so scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chani and Zalmen, Ain milim. I am so sorry about your horrible lose. one of the most unique families i have ever known. Chani, I always remember you for the tremendous love that you have and give to every one of your children and I can only imagine your pain. May Hashem help you through this difficult time and give refua shlaima to Rabbi Zalmen. my prayers are with you.
Chani and Zalmen, Ain milim. I am so sorry about your horrible lose. one of the most unique families i have ever known. Chani, I always remember you for the tremendous love that you have and give to every one of your children and I can only imagine your pain. May Hashem help you through this difficult time and give refua shlaima to Rabbi Zalmen. my prayers are with you.
as a former trauma social worker at a metropolitan hospital ,I know that the Rabbi will probably require rehabilitation,depending on the extent of his injuries,and his capabilitieswhen he awakens from the induced coma,he and his family will need extensive support. There are wonderful rehab hospitals out there,and,he will move onto one ,as soon as he recovers from the acute phase of his trauma,never give up hope as he can improve for a very long time,as he receives extensive therapies to move forward.An organization that helps with such tragic accidents is candlelighters,and of course the chabad community will be there for… Read more »
I’ve knows their family for over 16 years. I now live in Florida and would like an update as soon as possible.
I only knew Avrohom Dovid for ashort time,but to know him was an honor. Zalmie, Chanie and the whole mispochoh have welcomed me into their home with tolerance and kindness. I have read many comments on different websites, and ask that people should be kind with their remarks.. If I ,who am not at all frum can say “Modeh Ani” for most of thenight (because that’s all that I remember} instead of tehillim, Kal V’chomer can most of these readers say tehillim and do kinddeeds, instead of hurling insults at each other. The remarks on another website made me cry.… Read more »
i’m taking a hachlata to say kidush levana, every month! that’s so sad, she herself wrote about how painful that the holtzbergas past away, and now she herself has the same thing.
the world can’t affrod to lose him chas vesholom the world could use a few more of such real chasidim!
I know this rabbi he is a tzadik and his kids are so sweet pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Hashem help them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLZ SAY TEHILIM FOR SHTERNA BAS ROCHEL DEVORA AND SHNEUR ZALMEN BEN DEBRUSHA PLZ WERE GOOD FRIENDS WITH THE KESSELMANS AND SHTERNA NEEDS A LOT OF TEHILIM PLZZZ SAY!!!!!!
to #1 he pased away hashem is giving us to many hard ships
plese hashem have mercy
EVEN THOUGH THIS TERIBBLE THING HAPPENED say tehillim for Natali Ben Simcha and Yitzchak Ben Nechama Chana
Where is Moshiach already??!!
so sad
look in likutei sichos chalek 26 shmos(sicha beis)
Life is in Hashem’s hands; all we can do is our best in kindness and mitzvot!
NUMBER 52: I HEAR YOUR INTENSE INCREDIBLE PAIN AND HOPELESSNESS IN YOUR WORDS . . . THEY GO RIGHT INTO THE HEART OF US ALL, AND WE TOO ARE SCREAMING AND CRYING LIKE YOU ARE . . . WE JUST CAN’T CAN’T TAKE ANYMORE. . . MOSHIACH MOSHIACH. . . HAVE RACHMONUS ON US ALL. . WE NEED YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN EVER EVER EXPRESS. . . BEATEN AND BROKEN
TO NUMBER 29. DON’T DARE ASK HOW MUCH MORE WE CAN TAKE! RATHER PROTEST TO HASHEM THAT WE HAVE HAD TAKEN WAY WAY WAY TO MUCH! AND IT’S HIGH TIME HE TAKES US OUT OF THIS MISERABLE GOLUS ALREADY! THERE ARE NO EXCUSES. AND TO NUMBER 49! HOW DARE YOU GIVE HASHEM AN EXCUSE FOR SUCH A TRAGEDY!!!! HE HAS TAKEN SIX MILLION KEDOSHIM AND THEN SOME SINCE, AREN’T THOSE MORE THAN ENOUGH KAPOROS FOR THE NEXT ZILLION YEARS???? AND THE NEXT KAZILLION PEOPLE WHO YOU MIGHT SAY DON’T DEMAND MOSHIACH, YET KEEP TORAH AND MITZVOHS AND SPREAD YIDDISHKIET OVER… Read more »
May the aibershter give you the koichos to deal with this terrible tradegy.
We are all thinking about you and wishing you the best!
Your chavrei hashluchim 5762
This is such tradgic news!! What is there to say in a time like this? Except everyone please please continue saying tehillem and AD MOSAI HASHEM?? what more can u ask of us?
may we only be zoche to hear good news and the coming of moshiach NOW!
I just came back from the Flatbush Chabbad house.
I saw the sign, the one that will later be standing on the grave which read – Yeled in Hebrew.
I remember Avrom Dovid well and how his brother Sholom Berl was always taking care of him.
My wife and I always used to say: “Rabbi Liberow has wonderful children”
ALL THIS: WHY? HOW COULD IT BE?
ARENT U ALL SUPPOSED 2 B LUBAVITCH?
I AM NOT MESHICHIST, NOT EVEN CHABAD, BUT THE REBBE zt”l SAID MOSHIACH IS ON ITS WAY! WE JUST NEED TO REVEAL HIM ! AND IF WE ARENT DOING OUR JOB TO REVEAL HIM, WE NEED A PUSH, A ‘GENTLE’ REMINDER. HASHEM TAKES THE PEARLS AS A KAPORAH….
MAY THIS BE A KAPPORAH FOR ALL OF KLAL YISROEL, AND WE MERIT TO SEE THE END OF THIS GALUS!
AMEN
with tears and hope zalmi i wish upon a refua shlaimo
k.schtraks london
to the rest of the liberow only to hear besurois toivoes
no, no cant believe wot im seeing- avrom was a pearl, a precious jem given to light upm the world for a short time……too short a time…
no words…..just tears….
at least the father should survive….
Can COL keep us posted over the next 24/48 hours about his condition??
Maybe with the help of the extended family??
We’re all waiting to hear . .
Besurois Tovos NOW
oh no- when will it end?!?!?!?!?!
my heart is so heavy for Zalman, Refuah Se’leyma
oy oy
Could someone, who truly knows, confirm , for us all out here, who are holding our breath, waiting to hear positive nesw about R’ Liberow. . . please please confirm, that its not critical. . we’re all begging and davenning for him, we’re srorming the heavens over here. . . PLease, can someone send in an update, now and every few hours. . we NEED to hear positive news!! Ad Mosai, Aibishter, Ad mosai. . this tragedy has affected us all , in a heart breaking manner, we’re all broken beyond words.
Say Tehillim For Rabbi Lieberow Now!! he is in Surgery!!!
HEY PPL- SAY TEHILLIM! THE FATHER IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, AND HE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS!
AND FOR THOSE WHO DONT REALISE, THIS IS THE COUSIN OF SHTERNA KESSELMAN WHO WAS ALSO INOLVED IN A CAR CRASH LAST WK AND ALSO NEEDS OUR TEFFILOS- DO SO NOW!
MOSHIACH NOW!
Two hours ago I was standing in Frankel’s Shul (1699 President St.) where Rabbi Zalman Liberow used the ‘mikva’ and ‘davened,’ when someone said Rabbi Wolvosky and others that Rabbi Zalman Liberow was out of critical condition and is stable, B”H.
Condolences to the families at this terribly difficult time.
Let’s make ‘farbrengens’ and stress ‘Ahavat Yisroel.’
A tragedy of such great proportions is beyond reason or meaning. Condolences to the family and the entire Chabad community and a prayer for the Rabbi’s recovery.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/22167206/detail.html
moshiach now ,ad matai
may the chosson and kalla have a binyan adei ad!!!! an amazing family bh despite the terrible accident that happened last week in grand rapids before the wedding the wedding was held with much simcha it was a beautiful beautiful wedding and now this Hashem how much more can we handle ad mosai!!!!!!!
So sad, really brings to home how fragile life is. Please everyone, say Tehillim for Sterna Bas Devorah Rochel
it was two cars in the other direction that lost control one of which hit into the Liberow car
WE NEED NOT ONLY MOSHIACH BUT LOTS OF ANSWERS FROM THE AIBISHTER!!!! IT’S NOT JUST ENOUGH ALREADY, IT’S WAY TOOOOO MUCH!!!! ONLY US YIDDEN WOULD TAKE WHAT HE’S DISHING OUT AND KEEP DOING WHAT HE WANTS!!! FOR THAT ALONE WE DESERVE MOSHIACH.
Having had the honor of meetingt Rabbii Liberow at Dmitriy’s wedding, I would like to convey my sincerest condolences to him and his family for their loss. I pray that the Liberow family enjoy only Simchas now and always.
This is a wake-up call from Hashem!!!
Please, stop the Lashon Horah, stop the bickering!!
All these tradgedies must stop!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please try to be nicer to somebody every day.
If it is your spouse, your parents, children, cousins, friends..
Moshiach will come sooner, I”YH
Yes this girl who also was in a car accedent last week in Grand Rapids her mother is a Liberow and this is her brother who is in a coma
The family should only have a refora shelaima
Rabbi Leiberow is a Tzaddik!!!!!!! Hashem, have rachmanus!!!
End Golus!
this is such terrible news , i cannot believe it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i will learn my shiurim today in his honor for refua shleima !!!!!
and try to take on an extra shiur
bde
Please Hashem have pity. Send a complete Refuah to Rabbi zalman. We need him in Flatbush. Oy Rebbe – he is your Shaliach.
May this be the last of its kind! Moshiach Now!
AD MOSAI!!!
p.s.IS THAT THE CAR OR IS IT JUST A PIC IT LOOK IT IS A NOT IN THE USA PLEASE RIGHT ON THE PIC THE IT IS JUST FOR ILLUSTRATION
Sterna bas Rochel Dvorah who had last week a car accident is Rabbi S.Z. Liberow’s nice. She had a car accident gooing to the familly wedding and Rabbi Liberow coming bake from the wedding RS’O ad mosay !!!!
I am so saddened. Last week a young woman was badly injured in a car accident. I don’t know if it is a coincidence, or she was infact in the same car, but her mother was a Liberow. Could this Rabbi Liberow be her uncle? Surely C’V there cannot be two sperate incidents in one family?! What is going on in the Lubavitch world?? So so many tragedies……
Boruch Dayan Haemes. No words.
HASHEM! ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG WHAT ! WHATTT!!! NO WAY!!! NO!! AD MASAI THIS CANT BE!!! WHY ! !
Such tragic news!! Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family !! We need Moshiach NOW!!
MOSHIACH NOW!!!
Oyyy!!!
ad mosi!
the son passed away..
And Avrom Dovid ben Chana his son
Ad Mosai!
Kapitel Yud
Avraham Dovid ben Chana- his son