Herzlaya Tzarf, 72, a resident of the Ramat Elhanan neighborhood in Bnei Brak, died overnight on her 72nd birthday, one month after her husband, Rabbi Moshe Tzarf, died suddenly during a family event. Her condition worsened sharply in the previous 24 hours, after what relatives described as a serious illness that predated the family tragedy.
According to close sources, she was deeply shaken by her husband's death. Rabbi Moshe Tzarf had been the head of the Sheer Lamalot kollel in Kfar Saba and one of the leading rabbis in Ramat Elhanan. He collapsed and died last month in the middle of his grandson's wedding at the Keter HaRimon hall in Bnei Brak.
That wedding was for the grandson of Rabbi Shabtai Levi and the son of Elad Mayor Yehuda Butbul's daughter. Herzlaya Tzarf was widely known in Bnei Brak and spent about four decades as a bridal instructor and counselor to thousands of women and girls in the local community.
Her funeral left this morning at 10:30 from the central Sephardic synagogue on Rabbi Sonnenfeld Street in Bnei Brak and continued to the cemetery in Elad, where she was buried beside her husband.
