"For the first three nights I didn't sleep. I waited for someone to come yell at me. By night four, I cried because no one did.
Shira B.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2017 · Social worker, Beit Shemesh
- Jerusalem · Since 1949 · A Family of Four ProgramsA home,
A home,
not a shelter.
Bayit Lepleitot began in Jerusalem in 1949, when Rabbi Rosenfeld and his wife opened their home to girls who had nowhere to go. Today, the family continues that work through residential care and community programs.
- Since 1949
Counted three ways.
24
Holocaust survivors taken in by Rabbi Rosenfeld and his wife in 1949.
4
Sister programs offering residential care for girls and community support for children from complex family backgrounds.
3
Generations of leadership. Rabbi Naftali's grandson now runs the home his grandfather started.
- The Story Behind the HomeHe had lost everything.
He had lost everything.
So he built a place no one else would have to.
Rabbi Naftali Rosenfeld was a Holocaust survivor who had lost his wife and four daughters to the Shoah. By 1949 he was rebuilding a life in Jerusalem - and he could not stop noticing the girls. Girls who had survived. Girls with nowhere to go.
He and his second wife opened their home to twenty-four of them. There was no plan, no funding, no committee. There was a door, and there were girls who needed it open.
“Every girl who arrives at Bayit Lepleitot will know that, here, she has found a home.”Read the full story →
- One family
Four ways the home reaches further.
Four sister programs support different needs: a home for girls and community programs for children from complex family backgrounds.
Since 1949 · The Flagship
Bayit Lepleitot
Girls from broken or abusive homes - ages 12 to 22. Full residential.
Girls today120
Since 2020 · Newest residential
Nivcheret
Orphaned girls, age 5 and up. The youngest of the homes.
Girls today60
Since 2022 · Day program
Bishvilech
Girls from divorced families. After-school + weekly support.
Girls today250
Since 2022 · For boys
Beyachad
Boys from divorced families. Our newest sister program.
Boys today280
- Voices from the homeShira B.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2017 · Social worker, Beit Shemesh 
Esti M.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2019 · Teacher, Modi'in Illit
Sara B.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2011 · Mother of four
The story, in the words of the girls who lived it.
Graduates share their memories of life at Bayit Lepleitot. Names are used with permission.
Shira B.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2017 · Social worker, Beit Shemesh"I learned how to set a table. That sounds small. But for me - it was the first time anyone showed me how a normal evening looked.
Esti M.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2019 · Teacher, Modi'in Illit"On my first birthday there, they had a cake. I was eight. It was the first cake of my life with my name on it.
Sara B.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2011 · Mother of four- Become family
Help sustain the home every month.
The work of Bayit Lepleitot is steady, daily, and unspectacular. Meals. Homework. Bedtimes. Birthdays. It needs steady, daily, unspectacular funding - which is to say, monthly.
Your gift goes wherever the home needs it most. You'll hear from us once a quarter.
U.S. charity: Bayis Lepleitos Ateres Bonos Inc. · 501(c)(3) · EIN 26-0415131. Contact receipts@blphome.org for donation records.
Whatever you give each month, we will tell you exactly what it does here - and there is no amount too small.
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Three generations have trusted us with their daughters.
The leading rabbanim of the generation have known Bayit Lepleitot from up close, and stand behind it. That is the only endorsement we have ever sought.
Among them: the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, the Badatz of the Eida Hachareidis with Maran HaRav Elyashiv ztz"l, the Badatz of Belz, and Hadassah Hospital.
- From the home
All updates →News & moments - fresh from Jerusalem.
- From the Founder · Mar 2026
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Once a quarter, one letter. Stories from the girls, updates from Jerusalem, an honest look at what's working and what's hard.
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