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Rabbi Kalman Samuels shares his inspiring journey founding Shalva, a center for people with disabilities, after his son Yossi became blind and deaf at 11 months old.
A 1h 18m chizuk shiur by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.


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The opening of this shiur, in Living Lchaim’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
In this particular Rebbetzin, who my wife admired, she was probably 50 years old, maybe my wife was 24, 25. And she came and she visited and she said to Malki that, you know, Malki, it's not fair that you want to keep this child at home. You can't put a a glass on the table. You can't put a vase out. It's a life in plastic. It's It's an extraordinary limited life where you're running after him and just watching your other young children from him and and with him, etc. And it's not fair to your husband and And it's not fair to your husband and you have to think about taking this child out of the family setting. And Malki said to her, she says, Rebbetzin, you know how much I admire you and how much you appreciate you. But you do realize that you have a serious problem. She looks at Malki and says, like like, what is that? She says, you don't believe in God. Welcome back to another very special episode of Inspiration for the Nation. You'll hear more in this episode how I got to Rabbi Kalman Samuels. A lot to I got to Rabbi Kalman Samuels. A lot to do with one of my favorite Instagram accounts, favorite LinkedIn accounts, Twitter accounts, they're everywhere, Humans of Judaism. You'll hear more about that later, but how many times in our lives do we have a struggle, a roadblock, something just stopping us from getting to our full potential? How many times do we use that roadblock as the foundation for our road map to build our lives. Well, that's what Rebbetzin Samuels did and you'll hear a lot about
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- 0:00In this particular Rebbetzin, who my wife admired, she was probably 50 years old, maybe my…
- 5:38stop for 2 weeks in Israel. And you know, just see the country. They'd been there…
- 11:47which means it's pale. He will never see." And of course, that was like a finality.…
- 17:55word "ima" in Hebrew. So you have a consonant and you have a vowel, unlike English.…
- 23:34my nephew, my my neighbor's son you know, a child or girl uh need help the…
- 30:48fine. But in it I one of the my favorite quotes from it is your wife…
- 37:00And it was you know, a new a new life experience. like, okay, we're we're whatever…
- 42:35white. He has a sense of smell like a bloodhound when the kids were small. He…
- 49:11understand it. And you know, I would I can't say I wasn't there, but I think…
- 55:21she's worthy of that quality of life." He got the message. That's really incredible. Do you…
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