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Heartbreaking Tragedy in Staten Island – 10 Children Left With No Parents
Less than 8 years ago, the Jewish world – and in particular a wife and her 10 children – was rocked when Rabbi Dovid Winiarz, 49, from Staten Island, NY, was killed in a tragic car accident. In one moment, a family whose life encompassed chesed and Torah, was left with a widow and 10 orphans.
Earlier this week, the sweet family – whose chesed and Yiddishkeit remained vibrant in the heart of Staten Island – is left reeling once again as Mrs. Winiarz, and mother of the 10 orphans was Nifteres after a quick and tragic battle with a sickness.
There are now 10 orphans, ages 14 – 34, that are left with NO parents. Four of them are unmarried.
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Life insurance, life insurance, life insurance.
Important, but not everyone can qualify, or qualify at affordable rates.
You are right but now is not the time and place to say it, maybe they do have and its not sufficient, now the time is to donate, anything else should be kept inside you
Chaim, are you joking?! Now is the absolute best time to say it! When we hear about tragedies by a child drowning, we usually hear the family convey the importance of swim lessons for a child. We should learn important lessons from these tragedies. 1. Car safety (seatbelts, driving according to the local rules)- regardless if the individual was at fault or not. 2. Life Insurance 3. Increasing our teffilos (regardless if one feels that they daven enough or not). This absolutely is the right time and place.
I think he was trying to encourage people to learn from this. I doubt he meant to judge them.
When you realize the family will see this at some point…. your messed up man..
Totally agree
Also, just simply get a brain… I know people that could teach you how to have sympathy and not say dumb things
Life insurance? Lets do the math. 2 working parents of 10 children the oldest is 26. 4 married. Both under 50. (At the time the father was killed.) How much life insurance should they have?
More to the point, I would like to sincerely ask Dans Deals to ban comments like this. What if a member of the family reads this post? I consider it almost impossible that they will not. What good can this possibly do for anyone? No one is going to get more insurance now because Dave said to. If someone sees the story and it reminds them that life can be full of unexpected tragedies, then let them go buy insurance. If Dave feel so strongly, let him buy an ad on Dansdeals promoting the purchase of life insurance. Using his anonymous perch as a predator on the dansdeals comments section can do no good for anyone.
Buy insurance. Stop the hateful speech. Stop the insensitivity. Stop speaking Lashon Hara. Just go do what Hashem wants.
There are so many “Jewish” websites on the internet that allow comments that are blatent violations of Halacha in every way. Whether from the bullies who feel the need to respond to every post about a tragedy, reminding the mourners how foolish they are for not being insured; or the posts that are blatent Lashon Hara in every way.
I will not pretend that I understand the need for “freedom of speech” in these forums when it comes at the expense of other peoples feelings. I know enough about this site and those who operate it to know and respect that you are careful to maintain the highest standards of Halacha when it comes to posting deals or links to other sites.
@Dansdeals, Hashem has given you a tremendous tool in having such a website that we all use and enjoy. Please please please, do not allow posts such as these are hurtful in ways that, Baruch Hashem, most of us cannot imagine.
@Dave, please do Tshuva and I hope one day the families of those who you (perhaps unknowingly) torment, can find it in their hearts to forgive you. Yes, I know the family. Yes, I am taking this personally. Yes, I should have responded sooner to other people making the same comments about other tragedies. Please let’s all just try to be nice.
Are you a sick dog is that what a half decent human says when they hear of such a tragedy maybe stop and think for a few seconds what it would feel like to be a teenager with out a father to guide you or even a mother to cry to go troubled times
I know the family well. It is a tragedy beyond tragedy. They were a power couple of chasadim and kiruv doing tremendous things for Klal Yisroel. If you have heard about the Facebooker Rebbe, who did kiruv using facebook, that was the husband, He dies in a tragic car accident on his way to a Kiruv conference. He was in the back seat and the only one who died in the car. and now the mother died suddenly after a very short illness. The husband was a smart man who had a background in finance. We should not judge lest Hashem judge us!! and yes we should all have life insurance but in such a tragedy, it is a cold and judgmental thing to say!!
So when do you say it?! It seems to never be a good enough time to say it. My friend who lost their child in a drowning accident has been promoting the importance of swim lessons and water safety in order to prevent other tragedies. Is that too an inconvient time to talk about water safety? How about wilderness hiking safety after a parent almost lost a child to a climbing accident the Catskills last summer? Bad time too? Unbelievable!
Difference is in your story its the family saying it over here its you saying it
The difference is, you are pointing a finger and assigning blame to the victims of this terrible tragedy. If someone told the parents of the hiker or swimmer that they should have been more vigilant, it is assigning blame and to tell the world that the parents should have had life insurance (when you don’t even know if they did or not) you are blaming the victims. STOP BLAMING PEOPLE YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!! I know them personally and chesed is chesed. You don’t want to give then DON’T!! Klal Yisroel are supposed to be Rachmanim, Bayshanim and Gomlei CHasadim. Maybe instead of posting such Motze Sheim Rah you should start learning Sifrei Mussar!! (and by the way you don’t know me either but I am a mild mannered – do not post type of person but hocheach tochiach as they say)
Oh my. Prayers and more prayers sent their way
Does the money go directly to the family or is there an organization that is taking a cut?
Terrible but no one works for free and there are four unmarried orphans and the youngest would have 4 years at most until they are considered adults. They list their parents now all they have are 10 brothers and sisters that have to be the ones taking care of their unmarried siblings for the next 4 years.
Nobody is taking a cut. The money raised goes directly to help the family in need and I am sure Someone will be overseeing it but nobody is taking a cut!
ברוך דיין האמת!
Such a lovely family! My heart is crying for them!
of the four unmarried children it says 14-34 how many are under 18?
There’s a 14 who went to school with my daughter and 16 year old. Not sure of the other unmarried children’s ages.
I am close to one of them and sure mom had life insurance after loosing husband suddenly. It doesn’t make the situation any better it just makes it not worse. There are a few of them in shoduchim and someone needs to pay for their weddings. Think about all the money you give your kids or your parents give you they have none of that now. Life insurance covers a drop in the bucket..groceries…mortgage…insurance …bills…do we want this family to suffer ANY more??!
What?! I suppose if one has a policy for $25k or $100k, it won’t last long. Some informally call that level of coverage “burial insurance”. When purchasing a term policy, an agent works with you to determine the appropriate level of coverage. Consider covering the remainder on the home, debt, general life expenses, and tuition.
thanks for the oppurtunity
I think.