- GRAVESIDE FUNERALS • SYNAGOGUE FUNERALS
(YOURS OR THOSE THAT RENT)
- THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS LESS THAN CHICAGO JEWISH FUNERAL HOMES WITH CHAPELS CHARGE!
- TRANSPARENT PRICING INCLUDING SHOWING CASKET PRICES ON OUR WEBSITE (NO OTHER CHICAGO JEWISH FUNERAL BUSINESS DOES THIS).
- LIVE STREAM VIEWING OF THE FUNERAL AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE
FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T ATTEND.
- PREPERATION DONE AT OUR FACLITY IN NORTHBROOK
The Prinzing Hearse-Commemorating the Mandel family being in the funeral business in Chicago since 1906
We are the only Chicago Jewish funeral business without the overhead of owning a funeral home with chapels!
We provide graveside services, or we can do the service indoors at your Synagogue, or one of several Synagogues that rent their facilities at reasonable fees (Skokie, Wilmette, Highland Park and Northbrook), or from cemetery chapels including Westlawn, New Light and Sunset Memorial Lawns.
Usually we save families $2500-$4500 on the same or similar service sand merchandise versus what the charges would be from any Chicago Jewish funeral home with chapels. As an example, in April of 2020 we took an assignment on a funeral contract that was prepaid through Weinstein & Piser. They were told they couldn't change,or cancel anything their father pre-arranged including the limousine, even though the service needed to be graveside due to the pandemic. The family told us this and we told them to use us. By doing so and changing the casket and vault slightly the family saved over $6600.
With dear friend-The late Rabbi Neil Brief..
Taped with Rabbi Doug
Interview of the late Seymour Mandel about the history of the Jewish funeral business in Chicago
Grand opening of our Northbrook facility 2/23/2020
Since opening in 2010 we have directed over 3600 funeral services.
We provide the utmost in compassionate professional service. Our policy is to treat every family as if they were our own.
Our typical charge for a graveside funeral service runs $3495*. Three of our competitors General Price Lists show they charge over $5100 for their services and one of our competitors is over $5600. Our synagogue funeral service charge of $3995* is $6675 with one of our competitors.
You can see how we compare by going to our Compare Mitzvah tab, or going to www.comparemitzvah.com .
We carry the same and/or similar caskets to all of our competitors.
Our caskets are priced substantially less than Chicago Jewish funeral homes with chapels charge. Our caskets start at $700. One of our competitors shows their least expensive casket on their General Price List as being $2795.
Our most often selected casket (Haggai...aka Gideon or Samuel at Shalom) is the least expensive round top traditional poplar wood casket and we offer this for $2200 in 2025.
Chicago Jewish Funerals and Goldman were $3600 for this in 2023 and most likely higher in 2025.
We are the only Chicago Jewish funeral business that shows our caskets with their prices on our website.
(go to the Funeral Merchandise tab, or
www.mitzvahcaskets.com ).
We believe our competitors don't want you to know their casket prices until after they already have you at their facility as most families will feel they are trapped. THIS IS NOT TRUE! You can go onto our funeral merchandise tab, or go to www.mitzvahcaskets.com , even while making funeral arrangement at a Chicago Jewish funeral home to compare the prices we offer. You are free to purchase the casket from us and the funeral home can NOT charge you an extra fee for doing this and we won't charge you any delivery fee.
Of course, the best way to save your family the most is if you don't use a Chicago Jewish funeral home with chapels for the service and allow us to provide the services and the merchandise.
EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALREADY HAD ANOTHER FUNERAL HOME PICK UP YOUR FAMILY MEMBER,
YOU CAN SWITCH TO MITZVAH!
We have often gone to our competitors with a release from the family and transferred the deceased into our care.
Discounted Synagogue Funeral Plans.
Families that belong to a synagogue that has a discounted funeral plan with one of our competitors can still use us. We guarantee a minimum 25% savings versus the discounted funeral plan price. *
We pre-arrange funeral services.
Once paid, our charges are guaranteed not to exceed what is available at the time of need. Funds are placed into an insurance policy, or trust for the person who the funeral service is for and remains in the person's name until the time of death.
We also pre-arrange for persons whose funds are being depleted by long term care facilities. This allows a family to shelter funds for the funeral prior to these funds being depleted, allowing for earlier qualification for public aid.
Switching your pre-need to Mitzvah is easy.
Families that have set up a pre-paid funeral insurance policy through one of our competitors should be aware that they are not required to use the funeral home that set up this policy, even if the policy was set up "irrevocable". We accept these, and in most cases, refund the family thousands of dollars.
Shomer Shabbos Funerals
Orthodox and traditional families can be assured that everything required can and will be provided including tahara, tachrichim, and shomer.
Please feel free to call us at 630-MITZVAH (630-648-9824) at any time of day or night if you should need our services or have questions.
Thank you,
Lloyd Mandel - Founder
(no longer with Lloyd Mandel Levayah Funerals)