Rebbetzin Gitel Leah Weberman, who served the Jewish community in Miami Beach, FL, for decades, passed away on Friday, 18 Iyar, 5781.
She was 86.
Rebbetzin Gitel Leah Weberman and her husband Rabbi Pinchos Aharon moved to Miami Beach in 1960 to serve the Jewish community there, with the Brochos and encouragement of the Rebbe.
When they arrived in Miami Beach it was empty of all Jewish life. Together they were part of the founding pillars of the Jewish community in Miami Beach.
She is survived by her husband Rabbi Pinchos Aharon Weberman and her 15 children, Sarah Nitki, Eli Weberman, Dovid Weberman, Shaya Weberman, Brocha Friedman (Crown Heights), Shoshana Dubinsky (LA), Miriam Wiener, Zalman Weberman, Chani Gniwish (Montreal), Shlomo Weberman, Brendy Aron, Bentzion Weberman, Bassy Lapciuc, Yisroel Weberman, Hudy Jaimovitch.
Brocha Friedman will be sitting shiva at her home 701 Montgomery street Motzei shabbos through Monday night.
Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.
BDE. Rebbetzin Weberman was known as a teacher, a friend, a matriarch of a large Chabad family, a woman who made everyone feel as if they were her best friend, a woman with a great sense of humor, a trailblazer of Yiddishkeit in Miami Beach, and a role model within the Chabad community and much further within Jewish life in Miami. May her memory be for a blessing, may her family know from only simchas, and may she be a “gutta bettah” in Shamayim for Hashem to send Moshiach, m’korev v’yameinu AMEIN