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David Mandel, CEO of Ohel, shares his inspiring journey of waiting 24 years to have a child and discusses mental health challenges in the community.
A 1h 9m 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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What’s said in this shiur
The opening of this shiur, in OHEL Family Services’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
we went to a doctor many of the doctors in the field the Jewish we went to one particular person and um you know we have a conversation and um we're talking and we're talking and he never mentions statistics and it's like waiting because that's what everybody does so finally we say to him so what are the chances and he says what do you mean I see that you know you know you know I see that you know you know you know how old my wife is and how old I am and every single doctor poses statistics what are the statistics and he said 100 percent we said what do you mean he said if God wants you to have a baby you have 100 chance of having a baby if God doesn't want you to have a baby you have a zero percent chance of having a baby welcome back to another episode of inspiration for the nation I'm Jaco Langer and this week I spoke to one of the most passionate people I've ever met he's the CEO of ol oil is one of the most important powerful what they do most important powerful what they do it's so powerful work in Claudia Australia hear all about them literally too much to talk about but like everything to do with mental health and helping people get by on a real real scale life and death scale it's it's tremendous what they do but the person we talk to how who he is and how he's shaped to be who he is is incredible and obviously one of the most moving parts of this episode is him talking about uh him and his wife waiting 24 years for their
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- 0:00we went to a doctor many of the doctors in the field the Jewish we went…
- 5:42normally come from me not from you so and Chachi PT I would fascinating I would…
- 11:57years old is the statistic if you're 42 years old well my gosh you're at the…
- 17:37whole issue of fertility that at some point I said to my love you just give…
- 23:50oh well no one knows that I have a son who lives at all that was…
- 29:27position and how things changed very quickly overnight and um wow incredible he had Mikhail Cutler…
- 36:05day the patient was mean to me like it's dealing with life and death and on…
- 41:43the magic of Cam Kaylee is that at the end of the summer when your kid…
- 48:55I want to know how you think I want to know how you're going to deal…
- 54:33we need to be as educated as possible there's so much unfortunate misinformation going out there…
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- Chizuk — 1h 9m, by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
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- Watch free during prelaunch on Lehallel
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