One In Ten Million

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Gold’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] when Freddy Batoche was in his third year learning in Israel he started feeling very sick I started getting on these headaches here and there and then the headaches progressed to vomiting and by the time Chanukah at the summer time rolled around I had lost about thirty thirty-five pounds of muscle when his mother came for her annual visit to Israel she took one look at him and knew immediately that something was terribly wrong she wrote me to the hospital I wrong she wrote me to the hospital I checked my blood work they didn't believe what they saw they actually came back and took the tests again they diagnosed him with kidney failure and just a couple of weeks Freddy went from being this healthy young and very active guy to being dependent on dialysis and fighting for his life they flew back to America he enrolled in the you know slist a list where almost a hundred thousand people are waiting for a kidney transplant and the wait time is eight years most people don't make it a dialysis for more than five years dialysis for more than five years Freddy Batoche needed a miracle to survive I like to read a lot of books oh we had this book called one word I'm in talks about the power of saying a blessing and Sahni answering I'm in and they have these things called Baraka parties Freddy showed it to his mother and his mother decided to organize an amine party in the merit and discussive her official Aimie for Freddy we went through a class in the shul and after the rabbi's class in the ladies section my mother said oh I want to make a braja party my son's not feeling well and wants to help so

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1. 0:00[Music] when Freddy Batoche was in his third year learning in Israel he started feeling very…
2. 0:30wrong she wrote me to the hospital I checked my blood work they didn't believe what…
3. 1:00dialysis for more than five years Freddy Batoche needed a miracle to survive I like to…
4. 1:31and wants to help so okay I'll help you no problem she ended up organizing a…
5. 2:02found the perfect matching kidney for you a man in Texas had just passed away and…
6. 3:05celebration of other people usually we would stop the video here and it would be the…
7. 3:36enough and we're sitting there at like you know ten o'clock at night like okay what…
8. 4:08they said you're a six antigen match and that's the highest possible match that you can…
9. 4:39that I can give to know him life through this kidney the odds of getting a…
10. 5:10like all six DNA pieces matched from the impact that the Rahab party made in some…

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