לעילוי נשמת·In loving memory

רייזל

Raizel Blesofsky a"h

née Laber

ז׳ סיון תשפ״ו7 Sivan 5786

Raizel bas HaRav Avraham Dovid HaLevi

Live like Raizel

Carry a little of her light into the world.

Donate to Raizel’s Kitchen

“She saw the good in everyone — a simcha you could feel just by being near her.”

Raizel and her husband Yisroel — Raizel and Yisroel

Raizel with her family at her wedding — With her family

Raizel grew up on shlichus, a daughter of the Rebbe’s emissaries, and carried that warmth into every room she entered.

Those who knew her describe the same thing, over and over: she genuinely saw the good in everyone, and she made each person she met feel cared for, seen, and accepted. She had a kind heart, a ready smile, and a quiet simcha that people felt simply by being near her.

In her twenty-three years she touched more lives than most people do in a lifetime — and in the days since, that love has poured back, in mitzvos and good resolutions taken on in her name from across the world.

Live Like Raizel

Do one more positive act, and create a butterfly effect that ripples across the world.

When a neshama leaves this world, every mitzvah done in its name lifts it higher. Choose a way to bring her light into the world — and join what is being gathered in Raizel’s honor.

gathered in Raizel’s memory

mitzvos · hachlatos · Tehillim

Ways to live like Raizel

Choose one to take on in her memory.

Donate to Raizel’s KitchenצדקהCarry on the way she fed and cared for everyone.

חלה

Baked challah· once

“We made Raizel's Zebra Cookies for Shabbos”

— Adi and Chana Bortman, Thornhill

צדקה

Gave tzedakah· once

“I gave tzedaka for Raizel’s pure neshama”

— Anonymous

הדלקת נרות

Lit Shabbos candles· from now on

— Rachel

See all the mitzvos taken on in her memory

In Her Honor

What is being done in her memory

A challah bake, a class, a mitzvah taken on — share a photo and a few words, and add to the light being gathered in Raizel’s name.

My daughter and I made Challah this week!!! I hadn’t done hafrashas challah in a very very long time! Thank you Raizel!

— Yehudeet Shabat, Houston, TX

My husband and I sponsored butterflies to be released in Raizel’s memory at JGR.

— The Shabat Family

A mother of 6, ka”h, who lived 4 years long (she was “given” 4-5 months by her doctors) recently passed away. I provided shemirah for her in memory of Raizel.

See all that’s being done in her honor

Remembering Raizel

Her family’s words, and yours

A camp nurse remembers Raizel

From a camp nurse, Miriam Sprei Miriam is between Shaina & Raizel in the picture.

Dear Nechama,

No words can describe the great loss that you and your family suffered with the sudden passing of your precious daughter Raizel. I always admired her as a real Tzadekes the way she worked so loyally and content always with a smile in her own quiet way. The strenuous kitchen work looked so easy when I watched her. She was a pure and precious neshama. Hashem should give you strength to go on with your holy ambitions. Raizel a'h will be a role model for us and be a "meilitza yosher" for you, your family and all Jewish people. We want Moshiach NOW.

Be Like Raizel: Give to Others

Raizel was a giver until the moment her soul returned to Hashem.

"Taking does not make you unique; everyone knows how to take. What makes you unique is giving — what you give and how you give. Every individual has something different to give, and we all give in our own special way.

Even one positive act creates a butterfly effect that ripples across the world. Do whatever you can to impact your sphere of influence — by living by example, by being a giver instead of a taker."

— Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Toward a Meaningful Life

— Raizel's mother

I don’t often make enough dough to take challah and make a ברכה but this week I made Raizel’s challah, took the time to daven for others and shared it with people from my community. Raizel inspires me to be a more loving, giving person, to share my love of cooking and baking with others, and to really live in the moment. By giving of our food and our time we can be like Raizel. Raizel we miss you so much💔💔

Seeing her in the kitchen preparing and getting it better than best with calmness and a good word to whoever came by she was everybody's older sister that cared she is very missed

Raizel, A true Eishes Chayil She was an angel She was so beautiful

Constantly Giving to others Looking out to help another

Busy with baking and cooking Keeping calm in the kitchen The challah she would bake With love each week

Add in Kindness Spread in possitivity Just like Raizel did each day In her own special way.

— Chana

See all in Remembering