Linda Beeber

Eishet Chayil, a Woman of Valor, me yimtza who can find, v'rachok mepneinim mechrah her worth is far above rubies.
Words from Proverbs, absolutely fitting the life of Linda Barash Beeber. Sung to her every Friday night in our home. Family, friends, community- Zion itself- all were lucky to have her presence, the benefit of her valor. The void is unfillable.
Born in Brooklyn in 1957, Linda too made sure you knew it. Crown Heights, Flatbush, Sheepshead Bay; with experiences equal to those of Woody Allen and Larry David, only- as she wryly said- "they made money for talking about it." To really understand Linda, though, you should know that by ancestry she was the "great-granddaughter of the last Rabbi of Trembuvla," Poland. During the Holocaust, the rabbi, her great-grandfather, refused to leave behind his threatened, doomed worship community and was ignominiously murdered. Linda's parents, Fishel (Phillip) Barash and Judith Koppel Barash, were both survivors of the Shoah, the Holocaust.
Linda would have five wonderful children: Jordana, Elan, Amira, Zev, and Tova. She ensured that each could "stand on their own feet." She insisted that they have Hebrew names, Jewish Day Schooling, good marriages with memorably lovely weddings. Bonuses were the wonderful spouses of her kids (Michael, Emily, Roy, Gilad), and her precious grandchildren-- Yuval, Eden, and Elah (knowing more would be on the way).
Linda was a fierce defender of Israel, a loyal American, the ideal Jewish mother (her challahs! but one example), Bubbie extraordinaire, and devoted friend.
Linda also had a brilliant career. As she put it in that very New York Way: "I was an MBA on Wall Street" and served as a Financial Analyst at Bank Leumi, the main office of the Israel bank in the States. After our marriage at her home shul, Kingsway Jewish Center in Brooklyn, we had several busy, exuberant years in the City, before moving back to Atlanta. She would claim that upon leaving New York: "I cried through the whole state of New Jersey." So one would understand completely that during her clearly forced diaspora, she "had her a lobotomy in Virginia."
Georgia it was. She ran the business aspects of my solo Pediatric practice, always fair, prompt, truthful, timely, and carefully exact in her work. Linda had five children, to date three grandchildren, and she always expressed that they all were her crowning achievement. How dear their attachment, how painful the loss, and beautiful the time that has been shared.
How can I tell you of our love, my dear love Linda, Leba bat Yechiel...?
W. H. Auden wrote something of what to say in his poem "Funeral Blues", for my wife was:
"...my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong."
You did not just know Linda, like Linda- you loved Linda once in that circle of her caring. She took special delight in becoming tight with cousins who had ended up in Israel (several of whom we visited during our honeymoon and many subsequent trips) and others scattered across America, Florida to California and in-between.
From Eishet ChayiI: "Kamu va'neiha va'y'ashru'ha, ba-lah va'y'hal'hah" "Her children come forward and bless her, Her husband, too, and he praises her."
Dear G-d, oh Guardian of Israel, please look over Linda. Appreciate her as we did.
May she receive the same praise in the Heavens that she so rightly earned on earth.
May your children somehow be comforted in spite of this painful leaving.
Baruch Dayan haEmet- 'Blessed is the True Judge.'
Linda Beeber is survived by her husband, Bruce; her children Jordana Boneh (Roy Kfir), Elan Beeber, Amira (Michael) Bobrov, Zev (Emily) Beeber, Tova (Gilad) Lev; grandchildren Yuval, Eden, and Elah Bobrov; and sister, Sabina (Sam) Borenstein. Predeceased by her parents Phillip and Judith Barash.
Zikhronah levrakha
Donations may be directed to American Friends of Magen David Adom, Jewish National Fund, Atlanta Jewish HomeLife, Fulton County Humane Society, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education at The Breman, or Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
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Linda Beeber's memorial service will be held on Sunday July 6th, at 11am, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, with Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal officiating. Streaming available. Graveside interment to follow at Greenwood Cemetery. Funeral arrangements by Dressler's. Shiva will take place at the Beeber Home, 1441 Mile Post Drive, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338. Shiva will begin after the funeral on Sunday from 4pm-830pm. It will continue Monday, July 7th through Thursday, July 10th from 6:00-8:30pm, with minyan nightly at 730pm. Friday visitation will be 9:00-12:00, with services at 9:00am
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SHIVA: Shiva will be held on Sunday from 4:00 to 8:30 PM, and Monday through Thursday from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at the Beeber home, 1441 Mile Post Drive, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338.