Bnei Brak Family Appeals for Help Before Daughter’s Wedding

A long-hidden family crisis in Bnei Brak has come to light as the daughter of a respected Torah scholar prepares to marry. According to the appeal, her father fell seriously ill 10 years ago and has been unable to function at all since then, leaving the mother to carry the entire household alone, including earning a living, raising the children, handling family matters, and arranging marriages.

The family’s financial situation has worsened over the years and has now reached a breaking point. Despite the joy over the engagement, they cannot afford even the basic items needed for the wedding, and the bride says she feels helpless as her wedding day approaches.

Rabbi Yaakov Shish, a popular preacher who learned of the case firsthand, publicly relayed the family’s distress. He said he had received a call from “a very important woman in Bnei Brak” whose husband is “an enormous Torah scholar” and author of books, but is, in his words, “like a Torah scroll in distress.” The rabbi emphasized that the husband has been “very sick” for a decade and “does nothing at all.”

He repeated the bride’s plea to arrive under the chuppah with the basic necessities like her friends and called on the public to contribute 391 shekels, a sum he described as the numerical value of the Hebrew word for salvation. Donations are being collected through Kuppat Ha'Ir for Fund No. 5780, so the bride can establish her home with dignity.