CHABAD SHOOTING VICTIM NAMED AS LORI GILBERT KAYE, 'ESHET CHAYIL'
Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, was murdered Saturday when 19-year-old John Earnest burst into her Poway synagogue and opened fire. According to reports, Gilbert Kaye was killed trying to protect the congregation's rabbi.
In a piece celebrating Gilbert Kaye's life, which was first published on Facebook, close friend Audrey Jacobs described her as "a jewel of our community, a true eshet chayil, a woman of valor." Jacobs was the first to report that Gilbert Kaye jumped in front of Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, taking the bullet that took her life, but saving his.
"You were always running to do a mitzvah(good deed) and generously gave tzedaka(charity) to everyone," Jacobs described. She said that saving the rabbi was "your final good deed."
Gilbert Kaye leaves behind "a devastated husband and a 22-year-old daughter," Jacobs wrote.
An inspiration to many in the community, on her 60th birthday, Gilbert posted on Facebook that she was “Fearless at 60! As I enter a new decade, I am full of 'gratitude' & thankfulness for the many blessings in my life."
"As I said on my 40th & 50th birthdays: Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away," she wrote.