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Leah Ain Globe, z"l, the 95-year old founder of Mavoi Satum was a remarkable woman of enormous wisdom, understanding, and compassion all compacted into a diminutive body.
Leah lived through turbulent changes in history and lifestyle. Born in Poland in 1901, she came as a child to America under the most difficult conditions. From her earliest days, she was a person who was involved with the destinies of other people whether teaching them, writing about them or simply talking to them. She was a keen observer of human nature, and knew when someone was in trouble, even before they told her.
As an adult, her heart and her home were always open and she readily shared her wisdom and experience with anyone and everyone. That included the most in-depth commitment of taking a child Holocaust survivor to her bosom and being a mother to her in every sense of the word; while simultaneously continuing to picking up adult strays who were lonely or confused or who came from dysfunctional families. She was a person who always had time for everyone. Never afraid of new challenges, she was already past the age of 70 when she came on aliya. This, too, was a selfless gestures since her eldest granddaughter was studying in Israel, and she wanted to provide a home for her.
What Leah will be most remembered for in Israel is her courageous and unwaverving commitment to removing women trapped in unhappy and violent marriages from their bondage. Women heard about her care and generosity from all over Israel, and flocked to her for assistance. At the age of 84, Leah wrote a book called, "The Dead End", translated into Hebrew as "Mavoi Satum", which chronicles the stories of many of the agunot and mesuravot get that she helped -- women who she feared had reached a "dead end" in their divorce proceedings. The organization took its name from her book.
Leah founded Mavoi Satum in her living room in Jerusalem when she was already in her 90s. She impressed on all the women she knew to get involved in this cause, and her firy passion generated the infrastructure of the organization.Today, every woman assisted by Mavoi Satum has Leah to thank.
Leah died in 2001 at the age of 100. Though she is sorely missed her spirit lives on in Mavoi Satum.
To purchase Leah Globe's book, in Hebrew or English, contact Mavoi Satum.
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