Kaddish In Front of 7 Graves

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Gavriel Sassoon recited Kaddish at the graves of his 7 children killed in a fire in Brooklyn on the Shloshim – 30 days since their passing.

Seven of Sassoon’s eight children, Eliane, 16, Rivkah, 11, Sara, 6, David, 12, Yehoshua, 10, Moshe, 8, and Yaakov, 5, perished a month ago in a deadly fire in their home in Brooklyn.

Not present at the cemetery were the children’s mother Gila Sassoon and sister Tzipora Sassoon who are fighting for their lives after surviving the fire by jumping out of the window on the second floor of their home. They are hospitalized in serious condition.

“Baruch Hashem, my daughter is walking and laughing and with G-d’s help she will be released in a week from the hospital,” the father said. He added that it wasn’t clear if the girl will go home or will need to go to a home for therapy.

Sassoon added, “my wife is still under anesthesia because her condition is worse and because she is older. My daughter, who is younger, is recuperating more quickly, but every day we’re moving a little. Every day there are prayers, and we see the results.

Take on a good deed in their memory

A palpable sense of sadness has overcome our community after the horrific tragedy of the Sassoon family. There are no words to describe the empty spaces in our hearts as we face the reality that seven pure neshamos were taken away from us.

A wise person said: What do we live for if not to make life a little less difficult for someone else? Many of us took upon ourselves different kabbalos (i.e. accepting shabbos earlier, shmiras halashon, learning a daf, helping someone in need, or getting rid of not tzanua clothing) as a zchus for a refuah shleima of Gila Bat Francis, and Tziporah Bat Gila as well as an aliyas neshama for the 7 Sassoon Children.

Finding comfort for such a catastrophic event seems unimaginable. Only Hashem has the cheshbon and answers that will one day show us all that the whole picture where we will all be able to see everything is for the good. “Machshavos hashem amko.”

In a small effort to show our sense of imo anochi btzara, we are asking the community to please email or call/text any good deed or kabbala that you have done as a zchus so that a compilation can be sent to the Sassoon family.

Please email to: [email protected]
Or call/text 347-576-9774.