The Significance of the Final Shabbat of the Year | Rabbi Itai Ben Aharon

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There was a baby who, at 2 a.m., began to wheeze. The mother runs to the bed, checks the child, sees he is all blue, tries to turn him, turn him onto his stomach, and pat his back. And the child is blue, losing his breath. She runs quickly to the doctor. Two in the morning. Knocking, knocking. Somehow the doctor wakes up, opens the door, checks the baby, and tells the mother —may you be blessed—he says to her: That’s it, there is nothing to be done, the child has lost his life, a two-year-old child. And the mother says to him: Perhaps something can be done after all? He said to her: I cannot do anything. She said to him: Maybe electric shocks, something? She pleads, cries, and then he decides to go ahead and administer electric shocks. A little effort, and the child returns to life; he saves the child at the very last moment. This child grew and developed, and what did he become? Rabbi Kahaneman, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, who rebuilt the world of Torah after the destruction of European Jewry , moved to Israel and established the Ponevezh Yeshiva. If the doctor had given up on him, we would have lost Rabbi Kahaneman; but at the last moment , he saved his life. Rabbi Kahaneman says: From this, I learned a moral lesson: sometimes a person tries, struggles, and fails, and fails again, but he says—sometimes you can, with something small, at the last moment,

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