Bahir Ha'Torah Jackson

Hi, my name is Julian Jackson and today I am a broken man. The young man you see in the picture is my only biological son. He was 20 yrs old and no one could have told me that he would be called home to the Father on October 17, 2023.

This GoFundMe is not to pay for our son's funeral service. We were able to take care of that. Our struggles go beyond that. We now have to pay for his burial plot and headstone.

Even if you can imagine, our troubles don't end there.

Our son is part of a blended family. His biological mom and I are friends and all of our children (hers, our son Bahir and my wife's sons) were raised together as BROTHERS. My wife is not his stepmom. She is simply his mom and raised him just as she did her own. We did the blended family dynamic the way it is supposed to be done. Our son lived with myself and my wife from age 6 to 18.

At the time that we lost him, he was living with his biological mom. He passed away in the bathroom of the house she lives in. He was working part-time and had no health insurance. We now have to face all of the EMS bills and hospital charges for their attempts at bringing our baby back to us. These are astronomical charges.

Along with that, his biological mom can't even stand to use the bathroom in that house but does not have the means to move. She also now doesn't have the much-needed financial contributions to the household that our son was making.

This is more for her and our son's 3 siblings, one of which had to break a bathroom window to find his brother nonresponsive on the bathroom floor.

So much is needed, and we are depending on the G-d to help us.

We would appreciate any help to move her from the home where she fears going into her own bathroom, to pay the mountain of medical and EMS bills and to make sure that his siblings get the counseling they need to make it through this almost impossible time.

I never wanted to do a Gofundme to bury anyone I love and praise G-d, the policy we had took care of everything but the burial site and headstone. We are so blessed for that.

As a man and a father, I cannot sit by and not do everything I can to help the mother of my only son when we are so broken and trying to lay our baby to rest. I am here, transparent and humbling myself before you, doing something I said I would never do, in a situation I thought would never happen. Please know that my pride is bruised from having to type this but what can I do? What kind of servant of the Most High am I if I don't try to do everything I can to help the one who gave me the most precious gift of all, the gift that I have to now return to the Father.

Anything you can give, EVEN IF IT IS ONLY YOUR PRAYERS, we appreciate it with our whole heart.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Before you click the x, please say a prayer for our family because broken does not begin to describe what we are, and pain is not a big enough word to describe what we feel.

May the Father bless you and yours. Hold your children close. You never know when a hug will be your last.

Shalom.