120 girls in one home.Hundreds of girls. Thousands of graduates.
Held, every day, by thousands of partners.

Rabbi Naftali Rosenfeld zt"l was born in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century. He grew up in a world of giving and of a generous heart, and at the age of 30 his world was destroyed in the years of the terrible Holocaust. His first wife and four daughters perished al kiddush Hashem, hy"d.

With his arrival in Jerusalem at the end of the 1940s, he rebuilt his home in Mea Shearim and decided to turn the personal tragedy into a center of action on behalf of the survivors of the Holocaust. He saw the girls who had survived, orphans without a home or family, many of whom had drifted through harsh conditions and found shelter in abandoned stairwells.

He did not aspire to establish an "institution." He simply opened the door to every single girl. He gathered them one by one, and with 24 girls who had survived the Holocaust he founded the place that would become the 'Bayit Lepleitot' center. After 35 years of leadership marked by utter self-sacrifice, hundreds more had already followed in their footsteps. His promise from then on — that every girl who came to Bayit Lepleitot would know she had found a real home — was no figure of speech. It became his life's work and the essence of his existence.

His son, may he be set apart for a long and good life, took up the mantle of leadership in 5745 (1985). His grandson continued the path beginning in 5784 (2024). The same path, the same family, continues today.