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Birth and Early Life
Pesha Leah Levin was born on July 30, 1953, the 19th of the Jewish month of Av, in El Campo, Texas, a small agricultural town in the floodplains of the Colorado River about an hour’s drive south of Houston. Her parents, Frank and Betty Levin, were one of only a half dozen Jewish families in the town of 7,000.

Marriage
In the 1970s, Phyliss became more religious after a visit to Israel in high school, in fact, she changed her name to Pesha Leah. She learned under Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff of Houston TX. In 1979, she met Chaim Dovid Lapine and after a few dates they got married. They settled in Houston.

Moving to Brooklyn
In 1984, after they had their first child Shraga Fivel, they moved from Houston to Morristown NJ. A short while later they moved to Brooklyn NY and had three more children:

Avraham Shmuel-born 1986

Mira-born 1987

Sara Chana-born 1989

Assassination
In February 1992, Mrs Pesha Leah Lapine came home from shopping and was attacked and killed by a insolent who broke into her home. It was found out that their 7-year-old Shraga Fivel, couldn’t get into the house until he called the neighbor for help.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Response
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe attended her funeral. After the week of mourning, he spoke of her sacrifice. His words sounded more towards God, then the audience.

Mikvah in her Memory
In 2022, about 30 years since her Yartzeit, her son Rabbi Avraham Lapine announced he would open a mikvah where he lived Columbia, Missouri since there was no Mikvah there. He would make it in honor of his mother, Mrs Pesha Leah Lapine. May her memory be blessed.