Have you ever caught sight of a shooting star tracing its dazzling trajectory across the heavens? It seems to appear out of nowhere, lights up the sky for a moment, and then is gone, all too soon. Avigail Rechnitz a”h was one such shooting star.
Avigail Rechnitz a brilliant creative young woman arrived in Los Angelesshortly after her marriage. As the Rechnitz businesses flourished Avigail left a successful legal career and devoted herself to creating a small empire of chesed revitalizing the local Bikur Cholim and transforming it into a major resource for theLos Angeles community.
“Avigail wouldn’t want to be portrayed as some sort of ‘angel of chesed’ ” says her brother Mordechai Wakslak. “She grew into that role and became more spiritual through it. It was always her nature to step into any situation that required fixing and apply herself toward righting it. The more she helped people the more she found self-fulfillment.”
Tragically after many years of helping the sick Avigail joined the ranks of patients battling life-threatening illness. Within a couple of years she was gone leaving a gaping void in the hearts of everyone she had touched.
Avigail’s wedding photos show a slim dark-haired girl with a quietly gracious air. Her naturally regal presence was underscored by her height — she was 5’10” a perfect match for her super-tall husband Yisroel Zev. As sister-in-law Tamar Rechnitz describes Avigail was “always poised very classy and elegant.”
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