Posted to Crown Heights News on

Hundreds turn out for the Levaya of Chana Wolvovsky OBM

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Hundreds turned out this Sunday afternoon to escort Mrs. Chana (nee Raskin) Wolvovsky OBM, who was taken from us after a terrible illness at an extremely young age. The tears, stunned looks and shock kept most of those who attended the Levaya standing around for a while after the Levaya had passed.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Related Articles

26 Comments

  • Boruch

    So so sad. Heartbreaking. May hashem bless her husband and extended family to find the strength to get through the pain and grief, vhikitzu vraninu shoiychnei ufor.

  • fp

    today is mirim lakins yarhtzeit and yesterday was bella rakins may they all work together as one to bring us all closer together as yidden to care for each other and to bring moshiach let us all take upon ourselves a promise to live our lives as they did and honor them all with true ahavas yisroel

  • Woman In CH

    Maybe this is a wake up call to all of us (women & girls) to realize how far we’ve gone in Tznius and to take upon ourselves ways to improve and with that let’s hope such tragedies will stop happenning in our community.
    B’suros Toivos!

  • Debora

    With extreme sadness and prayers, sending our love and support to the Raskin Family: to Danya, Michol, Raya and Sholom and the entire michpoha:let G-d always keep you and bless you.
    Love, Lena and Zhenya Smorodin, MI USA

  • Lena

    Our deepest condoleces to the Raskin Family:Danya, Michoel, Raya and Sholom and the whole mishpocha.
    We are sending you our prayers, love and support.
    Let HaShem keep you and Bless you,

    Love,Lena and Zinovy S. Southfield, MIchigan

  • Saddened by the tragedy

    May the Aibershter give her family the strength they need.

  • ANN.

    If you would be so kind and post this comment on the main page. It is important that as many as possible people see it.

    I had never met Chana Wolvovsky nor knew much about her except for the fact that she was fighting for her life.

    I cannot imagine what it is like for a young husband (like myself) to lose his wife. I cannot imagine what the parents, grandparents, brother’s and sister’s are going through, having to bury their granddaughter, daughter and sister.

    It made me think how too often we get caught up and carried away in our own enjoyments in this world, that we forget about our fellow brothers and sisters and their families who are going through so much.

    Take a second and think about what your family means to you. And make every effort to be friendly and caring in every way you can to as many people as you can and don’t ever let it stop. Teach your children to be sensitive to peoples feelings, not just by telling them but by showing them and making them appreciate what they have…life!

    Chana, I never met you, but you have touched my heart and helped me realize that there is a much deeper meaning to life. You will be sorely missed.

  • anonymous

    i witnessed first hand the love and warmth of this special family – the raskins – from the oldest generattion reb michel his rebetzin danya to the youngest. i was a recipient of their hospitatlity many times. may the family be blessed with many years of long and healthy life and may they be given the strength to deal with this tragedy.

    may they be comforted amongst the mourners of zion until the time of the ultimate redemption now

  • Dovi Minkowicz

    Response to this idiotic statement.

    Quote-

    Woman In CH wrote:
    Maybe this is a wake up call to all of us (women & girls) to realize how far we’ve gone in Tznius and to take upon ourselves ways to improve and with that let’s hope such tragedies will stop happenning in our community.
    B’suros Toivos!”
    -Unquote:
    You are virtually equal to Shach when he caused the Rebbe tremendous AGMAS NEFESH by suggesting a parallel idiotic brainstorm such as yours, blaming Entebbe on Israeli Jews not having mezuzahs on their door. Instead of encouraging added learning in the tzniut matter, and having a positive and constructive attitude, you come up with such a remark? Further more, I never met Chani Raskin/Wolwofsky personally, though knowing her father and husband, and from what I’ve heard she epitomized Tzniut. Is it in any way just what happened to her, or to suggest that she was a victim of the Crown Heights Tsniut problem? An apology to the family is what is appropriate here. And next time you herald such a statement, identify yourself!!!
    The passing of this wonderful young spouse, daughter, granddaughter, sibling and who would’ve made an exceptional parent based on the foundation of Yiddishkeit, Chassidishkeit and TSINIUT surpasses the margins of tragedy. There is no question in my mind that a massive loss in olam hazeh is a tremendous gain in olam habo. The heavens took back a jewel that will no doubt be on the front of bringing Moshiach bekorov mammosh!

  • cher

    to woman in ch “you say maybe this is a wake up call”???

    how many wake up calls does hashem have to give us
    and sof kol sof “lo poga velo noga”

    rabbonim community leaders vaad hashchunah activists wake up
    put your greif against one another on a side stop this crap of ….
    i and we hold you directly responsible for everything that happens in this community, you know what i mean no need to put it in writing

    it is like a child that puts their finger in fire and screams from pain
    then another and another
    asks the father if you see you burnet your finger the first time why did you put it i the fire the second

    vehameivin yovin

    may hashem have pity on his ben yochid
    and take the fire of golus away from us so we dont get burnt

    moshiach now

  • anomynus

    i have met chana OBM a few times i use to say tehillim for her everyday i heard she was such a specail women may her family have the strength to go through this difficult time her death made me realize not to take life for granted she taught me to be happy with what i have ,i will miss her dearly

    Baruch Dayan Haemes

  • To: CH women

    In this time of the year when we are quickly approaching the 3 weeks and as the rebbe said many times that this is an especially good time to increase in ahavas yisroel, perhaps it would also be a good time for you not to point or wag fingers at anybody unless you have super pwers that no else but you are aware of and can say without hesitation that this is the cause of the pain and suffering being felt in our communitty…

  • Dr. Brimberg

    Firstly, and most importantly my deepest condolences to the Raskin family. May Hashem console you among the other mourners of Tzion and Yerushalayim.

    To the person who posted under the name, Woman in CH:

    While there may be a problem in the community regarding Tznius, this is an inapporpriate place to mention it. I am sure this is the last thing the mourning family needs to read on this board.

  • boacher from O. T. 73--------76

    Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

    It is so painful, thats y we say “Hamokom Yenachem …..only hashem could console this sad & broken hearted family .there is nothing we can say …just pray 4 moshiach now !!!

  • am yisroel

    In a letter to a father who lost his young child, the Lubavitcher Rebbe writes: The traditional words spoken to the mourner during Shivah are: “May G d console you, together with all mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.” What is the connection between the individual mourner, and the mourners of Yerushalaims destruction? Why does the possuk compare the two? In truth there is a very strong connection. All Jewish people, wherever they may be, grieve for the destruction of Zion and Yerushalaim. So too, the grief of an individual Jew, or Jewish family, is shared by the entire nation, because, like the chachomim teach us, all of am yisroel is made of one body.
    to the wolvovsky and raskin families:
    Nobody can understand the depth of your pain and the depth of your loss, but know that we are all suffering and crying with you, and we are all praying for you.
    may hashem grant you the tremendous amount of koichos it takes to cope with such a tragedy, and may hashem send us te geula shleima when we will all be reunited with our loved ones.

  • brokenhearted writes

    our hearts go out to the wolvovsky and raskin families. r’ shmuel wolvovsky YOU are a true chossid. definition of chossid–r’ shmuel wolvovsky

  • Rivka

    This is the most teribble tragerdy.

    May Hashem help her family and may they only know Simchas from now untill Moshiach comes and Chana will return with all the others who we lost.

  • To Woman in CH

    I dont know if this was “woman in CH’s intention, but perhaps if she would have worded it diffrently it would not have had the adverse reaction that it caused to some readers.

    How does this sound?

    Being that the Nifteres was somone who exemplified Tznius it would be meaningful if we would take upon ourselves an additional Zehirus in Tznius Liluy Nishmosoh.

    Just a thought…

  • yehudise

    I AGREE WITH ALL THE ABOVE COMMENTS. IT WAS IN VERY POOR INSENSITIVE TASTE TO HAVE COMBINED THIS HORRIBLE TRAGEDY WITH THE TRAGEDY OF WHAT HAS BECOME OF CROWN HEIGHTS. BUT WILL VENTURE TO SAY, ALTHOUGH I DID NOT KNOW CHANIE AT ALL, I DID KNOW OF HER AND THAT SHE DID NOT LOOK LIKE THE “NEW CROWN HEIGHTSERS” LOOK AND SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST TO SAY WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE LACK OF TZNIUS IN THE REBBE’S SHCHUNA. PERHAPS IT WOULD BE A GOOD SUGGESTION FOR EVERY GIRL AND WOMAN IN CROWN HEIGHTS TO MAKE A RESOLUTION TO BECOME BETTER IN EVEN ONE SINGLE AREA OF TZNIUS (SUCH AS LONGER SLEEVES, HIGHER NECKLINES, LONGER LENGTHS LOOSER MATERNITY TOPS)IN HER MEMORY. IMAGINE THE COMFORT THE FAMILY WOULD HAVE TO RECEIVE SEVERAL HUNDRED LETTERS INFORMING THEM OF PEOPLES HACHLOTOS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR SZNIUS IN SOME WAY IN HER MEMORY). THEY COULD AT LEAST TAKE CONSOLATION THEN THAT HER PASSING AT LEAST ACCOMPLISHED SOME GREAT THINGS, THAT NO ONE ELSE WAS ABLE TO ACDOMPLISH.
    MAY HASHEM GIVE THE FAMILY THE STRENGTH TO WITHSTAND THE PAIN UNTIL THEY WILL BE REUNITED HOPEFULLY VERY SOON ONCE AGAIN, BUT THIS TIME IT WILL BE FOREVER.

  • Lets call a spade a spade!

    You people make it sound like, and everyone who reads this will think, that this is what all of Crown Hights looks like. This is so wrong. Just like you are not allowed to speak loshen hara on a person you are also not allowed to speak loshon hara on a community; on an aida kadisha. It’s so not true that all or even half of Crown Hights looks like that. We have quite a few very blabatishe dressed women.It’s just that these not so well dressed women obviously make alot of noise. In other communities these kind of women are thrown out. But that is not the Rebbe’s derech. Of course we have to help them change. But first our outlook needs to change. Moshiach Now.

  • A Raskin relative

    Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim,know that the whole lubavitcher world and more grieving with you at this terrible and tragic sad time of your lives,may Hashem give the Raskin’s and Shmuel Koches to get through this,and may we only here good news

  • SHOCKED

    I CAN NOT BELIEVE WHAT IM READING, WHY IS THE CONVERSATION OF TZNIUS EVEN BROUGHT UP. EVEN IF SOMEONE WALKED AROUND IN A TANK TOP, THEY DONT DESERVE BAD HEALTH ON THEM. DOEESNT MEAN THEYRE NOT GOOD PEOPLE YOU ALL ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT THE COMMUNITY TAKE A LOOK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD. IT IS MORE SAD THAT SHE DIED AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE AND HAD SO MUCH MORE TO GIVE, INSTEAD OF WRITING YOUR CONDOLENCES YOU PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT HOW THE COMMUNITY DRESSES!!!! I DONT THINK TZNIUS IS THE PROBLEM I THINK YOU PEOPLE ARE YOU CONCENTRATE ON WHAT PEOPLE LOOK LIKE INSTEAD OF HOW THEY ARE ON THE INSIDE