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Your article about Rebbetzin Batya Barg a”h has a wonderful epilogue that I’d like to share with you.
On Erev Shabbos last week I received a call from a cousin of mine, Michal Katz, from Yerushalayim. Although it was just minutes to Shabbos for her, she called me with a special opportunity. She told me that there was a choshuve rebbetzin who passed away earlier that week who had never had any children. She told us that Basya bas Yehuda Leib was special, that during her entire childhood in the USSR she had been moser nefesh for Shabbos and that she’d helped many underprivileged children in Eretz Yisrael, was a kallah teacher, and gave shiurim. Michal told me that at the rebbetzin’s levayah, her nephew spoke and said that his aunt had said that if anyone wanted to do anything for her, they should learn the halachos of shemiras halashon, accept upon themselves to keep those halachos for at least an hour a day, and say one kapitel of Tehillim for her each day.
Since I was approaching my due date, I lit a candle l’ilui nishmasa and davened for an easy labor and delivery. At our Shabbos seudah, we took upon ourselves to be careful with shemiras halashon for the two hours of the seudah. Baruch Hashem, a few hours later, early Shabbos morning, our princess was born, healthy and beautiful. We were debating between a few names, but nothing felt right.
As we were speaking, the idea came up to name our baby Basya. It all clicked. We’d been zocheh to the miracle of a healthy baby and felt that we had an opportunity to name our daughter — who was born on the Shabbos of shivah of a woman who didn’t have any children or family members to sit shivah for her — after such an illustrious woman.
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