Photo Credit: Baila Rochel Leiner
“At the center of a home filled with chesed and love, our mother, Rebbetzin Miriam Belsky, stood side by side with our father, Rav Chaim Yisroel Belsky ztz”l, in his communal work drawing talmidim and others close to Hashem,” says their eldest daughter Sarah Hindy Gross.
“It’s hard to talk about my mother without talking about my father,” adds Tamar (Belsky) Rechnitz. “They did everything together. Everything that happened in our house was both of them.”
Rav and Rebbetzin Belsky welcomed countless guests into their home on Shabbos and Yom Tov, and provided support and guidance to Jews from all walks of life — new arrivals from Russia, yeshivah bochurim, highly intelligent knowledge seekers, and those who were in need of any kind of assistance. All were treated royally in the Belsky home, where the Torah traditions of selfless giving and an open home continued from the previous generation.
Rebbetzin Belsky was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her parents Ben (Dov Aryeh) and Lena (Rochel Leah) Berkowitz often hosted locals and guests who were passing through. Mrs. Berkowitz would say to young Miriam, “Who else will take care of these people if we don’t?”
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