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Little Geulah: An Incredible Story of Faith and Hope

1.4K views · Sep 5, 2023

Rabbi Yaakov Klein

A story of faith and hope written in a letter to The Jewish Press, shared for inspiration.

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we haven't the foggiest clue of what Hashem is doing and the foggiest Hashem is running this world he's telling a story through us listen to this is a letter to the editor if you've heard it before it's gonna die to hear it again and I know that because I read it once and I cried and then I read it again and it cried okay so let's let's try to hear This Together carefully this letter to the editor was published in a magazine called the Jewish press on August 21st 2021 and she writes like this I'm going to read it a bit quickly we can get through it Dear Mrs Booth I assume is the editor after discussing this with my husband because we are extremely private people who do not publicly draw attention to ourselves my husband saw how deeply I felt about this and he agreed to send this letter in the hopes that everyone would read it for the strength and making part to for the strength and making part to those who are on the brink of despair we come from a hasidisha family so my husband and I got married very young I was not quite 18 and he was just a year older from the first date which was probably the only date um she didn't say that but for the first date we both knew that we were meant for each other we married and we're unbelievably happy when the first year passed then I was not pregnant my parents and in-laws began to look at scans and suggested that I go to a doctor to see why both my

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  2. 0:32this letter to the editor was published in a magazine called the Jewish press on August…
  3. 1:35that I go to a doctor to see why both my husband and I decided not…
  4. 2:05hands away from my weeping face and he said the only way he would leave me…
  5. 3:08we have been married 18 years when my husband decided to ask for a special brother…
  6. 4:08holding this beautiful pitiful Little Orphan to my heart two nights later strange to a degree…
  7. 4:38your belly she was laughing and rubbing my stomach and I oh I almost couldn't get…
  8. 5:40knew about her Miracles before she did she was a great older sister who helped me…
  9. 6:10and she asked me to sit by her bed and she said Mom she smiled at…
  10. 7:15thank you for letting me share my story she writes with the many who have lost…

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