Photos: Matzeivah Placed at Grave of Martin Grossman
[Photos below.] This past week, a matzeivah was erected at the gravesite of Mr. Martin Grossman, Michoel Yechiel ben Avraham. Because Mr. Grossman did not have family to care for his burial, a number of volunteers undertook to ensure that he receive kevuras Yisroel and a proper gravesite.
Mr. Grossman, who was executed back in February, was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Margaret “Peggy” Park, a Florida wildlife officer who was shot with her own gun in 1984 when he was 19 years old.
Mr. Grossman was the 69th person executed in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in the sunshine state in 1979. He was the 25th by lethal injection.
Prior to Mr. Grossman’s execution, Jews around the world wrote to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, asking him for a 60-day stay of execution for Mr. Grossman, but the Governor ignored the requests to allow Grossman to repay his debt to society by serving the rest of his life in prison. Separately, 200 organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, sent Governor Crist a petition requesting the stay of the execution, in order to properly file an official request for clemency.
The funeral of Mr. Grossman took place at the Nikolsberger Bais Medrash in Monsey and he was buried in the bais hakevaros in Liberty, NY, where the matzeivah was just recently placed.
See below for photos:
{Dovid Bernstein-Matzav.com Newscenter}
24 Responses to “Photos: Matzeivah Placed at Grave of Martin Grossman”
2. Comment from Normal
Time July 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM
HY”D
3. Comment from mythoughts
Time July 21, 2010 at 1:04 PM
To #1 and #2 - HY”D??? malitz yosher???? Have we lost our minds? ” Save your crocodile tears.
4. Comment from Thinking deep
Time July 21, 2010 at 2:00 PM
He was in the midst of a serious path of tshuva, which makes me feel pretty certain that his gan eden will be bigger then commenter #3.
5. Comment from To Mr Litvak #35
Time July 21, 2010 at 2:51 PM
since when is retzicha of a goy punished by misa al pi halacha? Yes H”YD is very appropiate especially when given the circumstances and the vague evidence ( do research and read the whole story thoroghly)
6. Comment from shani109@AOL.COM
Time July 21, 2010 at 3:03 PM
YES COMMENT #3 they are deranged.
7. Comment from Robert
Time July 21, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Please , Thinking Deep, let us know who you are. You seem to know who is getting what. Grossman killed someone , Think deep about that.
8. Comment from Anonymous
Time July 21, 2010 at 3:10 PM
#4
H”YD is an expression that was always used for those who were murdered bec. they were Yidden, not because they were on death row for mudering others. Let’s not deminish the meaning of the term by misusing it for every Yid that is killed.
9. Comment from mythoughts
Time July 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM
You lack respect for all humanity. As long as it wasn’t a Jew dying at the hands of this murderer you’re very quick to forgive. Would you feel the same if was a Jewish person dying at the hands of a non-Jew. Isn’t it funny how everybody finds g-d when they’re about to meet g-d.
10. Comment from Yoelie
Time July 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Certainly no way to speak of another Jew one day after 9th Av. No one is in position to judge another from either side of this issue. It is best to remain silent and not comment.
11. Comment from Dr. E
Time July 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Acharei-Mos, Kedoishim-Emoir
12. Comment from Anonymous
Time July 21, 2010 at 3:46 PM
#4, #3 didnt murder anyone.
13. Comment from yes
Time July 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM
who needs to bring up all this ’shmutz’ again! Thank the activists who take care of things, and if you don’t want to, keep that to yourself!!!!
14. Comment from principal
Time July 21, 2010 at 4:48 PM
why didnt you report that he was buried by chesed shel emes at the cemetery of chesed shel emes in liberty ny
15. Comment from Analyst
Time July 21, 2010 at 4:48 PM
give credit where credit is due!
who is this group of volunteers? whos cemetery is it in Liberty?
Chesed Shel Emes!
the organization that arranged Mr. Grossmans Levaya, Kevura, and the Hakomas Matzeivos of 30 other Meisei Mitzva alongside Martin Grossman.
16. Comment from Benjamin
Time July 21, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Rabbosai,
Michoel Yechiel zt’l was niftar a pure and holy Tzaddik.
Any one here would be so lucky as to receive half his chelek in olam haboa.
17. Comment from Yossi
Time July 21, 2010 at 7:30 PM
HY”D?!?!
Moral confusion reigns supreme!!!
Yes, it’s great there was achdus among klal-Yisroel in his last days but only the Eibeshter can judge him and his teshuva. We aren’t to make a martyr out of him! He was NOT killed for being a Jew. He was killed because he was convicted in a court of law for bludgeoning a poor woman to death and sentenced to die.
Let’s keep HY”D to Jews like the Holtzbergs, Daniel Pearl, the kedoshim of the Holocaust and all other Jews murdered because they were Jews.
18. Comment from Rav Meir Baal Hannes
Time July 21, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Leave him alone.
19. Comment from Yaakov
Time July 21, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Reb Michoel Yechiel A”H should be a maalitz yosher for all of us. Including those who fail to recognize his kedusha.
20. Comment from Reality check
Time July 21, 2010 at 9:43 PM
To 16
U can keep it.
21. Comment from ANONYMOUS
Time July 22, 2010 at 1:39 AM
Halacha is determined by the Torah Gemara Shulachan Orach not by peoples emotions or feelings or the slogans or politicaly correct issues of the day according to Halacha there is no question that he would not be Mechuyev Missah FIRST of all there is the issue of her being a non Yehudis there are different Halochos that apply if the Nirtzach was a Yehudi or not and in Martins case in particular you cant even call him a Rotzeich number one there was no 2 valid Aidem there was no Hasrah By 2 valid aidem it was also not premeditated it all happened in middle of a scuffle who said he did it bemaized (if it was beshogag even if the nirtzach was a yehudi there would be no capital punishment only Orai Miklot) and it may also fall under self defense even if he didnt feel his life was threatened by her killing him maybe he felt his life was in danger since she was going to arrest him and now he has to go to jail which definetly falls under Sofek Pikuach Nefesh people get killed cOmmit suicide and GET seriosly injured and other things happen to them in jail which i wont spell out
22. Comment from Gitty
Time July 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM
Don’t know whether you accept the voice of a woman suffice to say why do some Jews reserve the entitlement to judge other Jews? This is the reason we are where we are without Moschiah!!! and without our Temple…. I agree with 16 18 and 19….
Leave this man rest in peace and the rest or you should get a life and concern yourself with Israel and peace in our land
23. Comment from Ben Torah
Time July 22, 2010 at 8:18 AM
#21 — very well put and correct. It should be noted that since it was aino yehudi it is not considered retzicha.
24. Comment from Dlz
Time July 23, 2010 at 8:56 AM
#23 - retzicha or any person certainly is considered retzicha, despite the fact that the Sanhedrin wouldn’t impose capital punishment for it. There is certainly no justification for making a hero out of a man who, for most of his life, certainly wasn’t any kind of example. May he rest in peace, and may the rest of us remain level-headed….
1. Comment from Ben Torah
Time July 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Baruch Hashem, this is a true kiddish shem shmayim. May Michoel Yechiel hy’d serve as a malitz yosher for all of klal yisroel.