Prominent Rabbi's Daughter, Chava Minka, Passes Away at 73

Chava Minka, a respected and righteous woman and the daughter of the late Rabbi Yaakov Pinchas Shrir, the former chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Kfar Saba, passed away on the evening of Simchat Torah at the age of 73. Her funeral was held late on Simchat Torah night from Shagar Funeral Home in Jerusalem to Har HaMenuchot cemetery.

Minka was born in 1953 to Rabbi Shrir, who served as rabbi of Kfar Saba for over thirty years and was a leader in religious and Haredi education, and to Chaya Esther. She married Raziel Minka, a prominent figure in the Gur Hasidic community, who heads a yeshiva for Russian-speaking baalei teshuva and is a well-known writer for the Haredi newspaper 'HaModia' under the pen name M. Eliraz.

Throughout her life, Minka supported her husband's extensive work in Torah dissemination and outreach. Her home was known for its open hospitality to those in need, and she was recognized for her quiet acts of kindness, pleasant demeanor, and exceptional nobility of spirit. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, who continue in the path of Torah and Hasidism.

She is also survived by her brothers, Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Shrir, a mashgiach at the Mir Yeshiva in Brachfeld; Rabbi Nachum Shrir, rabbi of the community of Beit Yitzchak and regional rabbi of Emek Hefer; and Rabbi Aharon Yosef Shrir of Jerusalem. Her sister is Yochved Tzipora Goldstein, wife of Rabbi Shlomo Goldstein, head of a yeshiva at Yeshivat HaTfutzot.