Guestbook

Wow!!! I was truly inspired. So much so, that we have started to host all those that need meals in our community by opening up our heart and home to those who want a shabbat meal.

The Machlis family does an amazing thing. An open house to all is the best way to teach. During my Shabbat I had a homless man sit next to me and everyone around me rushed to pour his drink and to offer him bread. What a wonderful thing is this custom and a freat undertaking my the Machlis'! I G'mar Chatimah Tovah!

I have been blessed to eat many meals for Shabbat and Chagim in the Machlis home. It has made a lasting impact on my life the way this family faithfully serves so much physical and spiritual food to anyone who shows up at their door. I have been inspired by their grace and chesed and openness and love for all who come. May HaShem bless them and continue to prosper them and give them success in all the works of their hands.

Spending all 3 Shabbos meals one week during my time in seminary was NEXT LEVEL! The Rebbetzin raised magnifecent souls who took the best care of me. My neshama will always feel the care.

The Rabbi and his family are the best. The rabbi calls me the "Scuba Diver," to make me feel at home but the food, his inspirational talks, the kindness....it is all amazing. Even though there are so many people the rabbi announces that each one of us is his special guest and he makes me feel like that.

I just read "Emunah With Love and Chicken Soup." I was very moved by the story of Henny Machlis and your entire family. My mom died last year and I have been grieving very hard. She happens to have had the same birthday as Rebbitzen Machlis. Henny's example of love in action and her profound connection to Hashem helped me deepen my prayer life again. She inspired me so much. I have never seen anyone embody LOVE better than her. May you all be blessed in continuing to make Shabbos for the world.

Although I was not zocheh to actually meet her, rebbetzin Henny machlis inspired and changed my life.

It was a true privilege visiting your home and joining in the Shabbat Seudah this past Friday night. After reading the wonderful book, "Emunah with Love and Chicken Soup," I was intrigued to view this experience with my own eyes.
Baruch Hashem, I was not disappointed! My sons and myself were greeted like family by Rabbi Machlis and were treated to a delicious meal, complete with lots of Divrei Torah and singing. It was remarkable to watch people from across the globe and from all walks of life come together to experience Shabbat at your home. As more and more people entered the house, Rabbi Machlis welcomed them all and assured them that "There's plenty of room for everyone!." It was extra special when a large group of soldiers entered the house and asked the Rabbi for a Brachah, which he gladly gave, along with special singing in their honor. It was obvious that they were touched and inspired as we all were.
May Hakadosh Barush Hu grant you the strength and ability to continue your awesome work, spreading the beauty of Shabbat and Judaism for many years to come!!

I want to express my tremendous gratitude to the Machlis family for truly giving me the experience of a lifetime. I have read and heard about many stories about the Machlis’s, and their Hachnasat Orchim. Now that I am here in seminary, I knew I had to go. From the moment I entered their home, I was welcomed with smiles and words of such pure kindness, I didn’t feel like I deserved it. The walls truly expanded as a new table and 6 chairs were brought in and miraculously fit in the already packed dining room. I cannot describe how welcomed I felt, and it was truly a memorable Friday night meal. The singing, divrei Torah, and words of wisdom lead by Rabbi Machlis was so inspiring. I am so thankful to have had this incredible opportunity and may Hashem bless you with only good things, am yisrael chai!

Great hospitality and Jewish flavour that makes one feel like they are in the best place to be on Shabbos and to hear such wisdom from the many speakers invited to talk and wonderfull insights from Rabbi Machlis. Food is the best and such quanaties. May you have B'Hatzlacha to continue your work!

I am very grateful to Rabbi Machlis and his family for their generosity and kindness. The inspiring speeches of Rabbi Machlis - which he presented in both Hebrew and English to make everyone feel included - made the evening a special and memorable one.

Shalom!

I want to say thanks to the local Jewish community and Rabbi for inviting me and my wife to dinner. It was amazing to experience the friendliness and openness of the Jewish community. I was glad to learn more about the Jewish faith, learn about the tradition, and make new friends. This is a moment we will not forget.

My Last Day in Israel I accidentally found the rabbi teaching near the Western Wall. Delighted he invited me and about 20 of us to join him at his home for a Shabbat dinner. This was the most amazing experience of community and family Joy, a 12 course dinner with singing and ritual and prayers. Thank you for your generosity rabbi

Shalom Rabbi Machlis,
Thank you for your kindness and wonderful hospitality enjoyed during this Shabbat. Isaiah ch58 comes to mind: verses 6-14. G-d bless you and your family as you put these verses into practice. Thank you for touching so many lives in Jerusalem!
Olive Wilson

Thanks so much for your warm hospitality whenever we come to Israel we always have a great time! Wishing you a happy healthy sweet new year!

I am grateful to Rabbi Machlis and his guests for helping me to understand who I am as a Jew.

WOW The Machlis Family inspired me from reading the book. I hope one day b'eH .I will be zocheh to meet the Machlis Family.

May HKBH grant you going l'chayil u'l'chayil !

I wish that my husband and I could have met Rebbetzin Machlis; though, while reading the new book,, I really feel as though I have.

Just read the book about Henny Machlis. I am so inspired by her life. I wish her husband and children only simcha and brachas. Thank you to Mrs. Rigler for writing the book!

While I unfortunately have never had the zechus to be in the machlis home, I was very inspired from reading the book about rebbeztin machlis. I had heard stories from friends before but I never could have imagined to what extent the chessed that the rebetzin did went! I was very inspired and I hope to take many of the lessons and implement them into my own life and bring them into my family. I hope that it will be a zechus for the rebetzin's neshama and for all of klal yisrael. May Hashem continue to bless you and your family and bring mashiach soon!

Dear Rabbi Machlis,
Thank you so much for your kind hospitality and grace despite a difficult situation at the Shabbat meal on 22 October 2016. Your home opened to us on that day was such a blessing. Since returning home to Jersey (British Isles) our decree and prayer for you and your helpers has been that of Numbers 6:24-26.

I love the Machlis family and i'm so excited about the book that was published. Can't wait to read it! I miss Mrs. Machlis so much!

Rabbi Machlis,
Thank you so much for bringing us home from the kotel and sharing your wonderful hospitality with us on Shabbos, April 9, 2016.

Much haztlacha!
Jerry and Carol

I had just read an article on Aish.com about the beloved Henny passing and giving her all to mankind. I feel blessed reading of her wonderful ways and that I have known her forever. May her beloved family and all the beloved people Henny helped find peace with the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
The beloved memory of Mother Henny will live on forever in her children and the tens of thousands of people she looked after.
I have tears flowing writing this just reding about a Bleassed woman of Zion that I never met but feel so close too. Mother Henny will be in my prayers.

Michael - Chicago

Two days ago I shared a story with a friend about Rebetzin Henny sharing stories of "compassion and patience loaded with love and emunah" with us in Toronto a few years ago. She had all of us riveted and just wanted to hear more and more from her.
Then much to my surprise my friend shared with me of her passing. How painful.
Our huge loss is also a space for us to fill.
Reb'n Henny was one of the best 'mosaics' in the picture of my life.
Her memory will be a blessing.
To Rabbi Machlis and family, my condolences.
May you be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Annie;)

To the Machlis Family, Sheyichu

It is difficult to find the words to adequately express our profound sorrow and sympathy on the sad loss of your beloved wife, mother and grandmother Zecher Tzadeket Livracha. We were fortunate to meet the legendary Henny Machlis, the angel of chessed, when we visited our children, who had been your neighbors in Maalot Dafna. We also have enjoyed your occasional visit to Toronto, Rabbi Machlis. On both occasions we were struck with awe when witnessing or hearing of your extraordinary Hachnosat Orchim. We cannot even begin to imagine what the preparation of Shabbos and YomTov meals for so many on a constant basis must have entailed. But Rebbitzen Machlis' reputation goes beyond even her opening her home to any and all on a regular basis. The stories that have been told about her sensitivity to every Jew, her compassionate heart, her wisdom, her patience, her educating of less knowledgeable Jews - demonstrating to them the beauty and warmth of Yiddishkeit, make her and you, Rabbi Machlis - and your wonderful children who are continuing the tradition - true children of our founding father and mother, Avraham and Sarah. We would like to think that upon Rebbitzen Machlis' entrance to Gan Eden, she would have been warmly welcomed by none other than the formative patriarch and matriarch of our nation, who undoubtedly have and continue to derive enormous nachas from Rebitzen Machlis and from her family.

Rabbi Yeruchum Levovitz, zt"l, wrote in a letter of consolation: "Death should be understood only as if one has moved from one city to another. This is the real truth." Your beloved wife, mother and grandmother has not died. She is alive. She has but moved away. As Rabbi Levovitz writes: "To the one who understands things more deeply, on the contrary, the deceased are now even closer to the living than when they were alive. For now there are no separations." The essence of a person is the spiritual, and Rebbitzen Machlis' neshama continues to live and exist. Nevertheless mourners still need to find comfort from the pain of physical separation. Only Hashem, the Master of Comfort, has in His treasure house the healing ingredients for those left behind to mourn. Our hope is that Hashem will open up His treasure house of comfort, and shower you with droplets of nechama to heal your saddened hearts.

May your wife, mother and grandmother A"H, be a melitzah yosher for all of you and for all of Klal Yisrael and may the wonderful memories you have of her serve to sustain you.

"HaMakom Yinachem Etchem BiToch Sha'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim, v'lo tosifu lida'ava od."

Yihi Zichra Baruch.


With our heartfelt condolences and sympathy,


David and Shoshana Zolty
Toronto, Canada

We and our children had the great zechus to live in the same building in Yerushalayim as the Machlis family for 7 years. The extrordinary acts of chessed, tzidkus and ahavas yisrael radiating from the Machlis apartment were a true inspiration. They did what most people say "I would/should really do but cant..." Rebbetzin Machlis was a person that lived her life completely concerned with others. She was always, always giving - ruchniyus and gashmiyus, with all those around her, not just with the less fortunate but with anyone who had the zechus to come in contact with her. As neighbors we were always beneficiaries of their chesed and Torah and tried to reciprocate in a small way. She showered us with brachos and would always offer help and daven for her neighbors whenever we needed even a small thing. These noble qualities were absorbed by their children who each contain the unique quality of caring for others in a way that is clearly above the rest. While we learnt much Torah from Rabbi Machlis and consider ourselves talmidim, we are also talmidim of Rabbi and Rebbitzen Machlis in how to live life. Their respect and love for all Jews and all people no matter who they are or from what background is something we must all learn from. Rebbitzin Machlis was a true tzadekes whose every act and thought was lishem Shomayim. Yehi Zichra Baruch

Yehuda and Hennie Zolty

Our dear friend told us yesterday about the passing.
We do not really know what to say.

Our hearts are with you,
T&G (for 4 years your guests)

ps. The wicked in life are called the dead, while the righteous in death are called the living.

13 November 2015 / 1 Kislev 5776

To Rav Machlis and Children,

This past week I learned that your wife and mother Henny has gone on to Shemayim, to be with Hashem in a new dimension. The news hit hard, and I can only imagine how much you miss her. Oh, for each of you to be deeply comforted by His Presence.

Here I was asking someone if they knew when the rabbi from Jerusalem would be speaking in Toronto, and then I heard. But I thought Henny was on the upswing, I believed she was going to pull through and be restored to full health in this life. And now your family is without her at your side.

That evening I slipped out early from amongst other guests, and walked home with tears and memories of this precious soul whose radiant joy and chesed touched so many of us. Today I ran into one of your local supporters, and he informed me that tomorrow would be Henny's Shloshim. How I wish I were there to be with you all in commemorating her life well lived.

No words are adequate to express how I feel, or how much gratitude and respect I have for Henny, for your family.

Carrie of Canada
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Having learned about the wonderful Chesed that Mrs Machlis and indeed your whole family has done, it was a sad blow to hear of her passing. She continues to inspire me to try harder. May Hashem grant you all comfort among the mourners of Tsion. May you find strength to continue your amazing work. With much love and admiration, Julie Handelman

I was so sad to hear about the passing of your dear wife and mother.
I still recall how kindly your family welcomed me into your home for a Friday night dinner many years ago. Your family's Hachnasat Orchim is simply remarkable! Your dear wife and mother was a true tzadekes, a selfless, joyful, loving soul who will be missed by so many whose lives she touched.

May Hashem provide comfort for the entire family at this time. Rebbetzin Machlis was an extradionary women with a true love for every person she encountered. I am blessed to have met her. She is a true inspiration.

Rebbetzin Henny Machlis was the paradigm of Chesed and Ahavas Yisrael. The Machlis Mishpacha is an inspiration for all of Klal Yisrael. Thank you for opening your hearts and home for us. May you all have endless mazal, bracha, simcha, nachas, parnasa, Shalom, health and koach to do the incredible work you do.

Most of the beauty and connection I have to the mitzvah of Challah comes from the explanation Rebbetzin Machlis gave when I came to make Challah in her house.

HaMakom Yenacheim Eschem Bsoch Shaar Aveilei Tzion V'Yerushalayim.

May Rebbetzin Machlis be a meilitz yosher for all of Am Yisrael and for Shalom and the Geulah Shlaima now.

Yehi Zichra Brucha.

We are deeply sorrowed by the news of Hennys',A"H, passing. The only thing that makes it bearable is the great joy she and her whole family ushered into our lives.We are grateful for the profound wisdom , kindness and cheer she so readily offered to us and to all. We dwell on those special memories as a source of comfort to us and countless others.
May you be comforted among all others who mourn in Zion.

Your family has been a blessing to me while I was in Israel at Bar Ilan. May Hashem be with you now more than ever.

Our hearts are heavy. We were blessed to grace your lovely shabbos table a few times about two years ago when we were in Israel. Just from a small encounter, it is easy to see how remarkable a person Henny was. BDE. May Hashem be with you during this time and always.

We are too shocked & grieving ourselves to offer any real nekhamah to you, her precious, precious family. May you only know semahot for the future because nakhes & precious memories will always be yours forever.
Now ,it's up to Hashem,
Hamakom Yenahem ....