The ODEH Story: A Liver Donor Saves a Baby's Life

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

If I would have [music] the words to say thank you, I would tell them all. >> [music] >> My name is Israel Sorota. This is our story. When Shmuel was born, we were so grateful and thankful to Hashem because we waited so long until he arrived. [music] We got home and just like every other baby and thinking he's healthy, he just started smiling. He was He had the cutest smile. smiling. He was He had the cutest smile. It was melting our hearts. A month later, we realized that he's jaundice. He's [music] uh yellow. We went to the doctor and they told us uh he'll be okay. Goes by another month, we come back and the [music] doctor is like, "Maybe we should do blood test." And a few hours later, we get a call that something is wrong with the liver. We should [music] go to the ER immediately. As we arrived to the ER in Columbia, As we arrived to the ER in Columbia, they told us that he most probably has biliary atresia, [music] which further testing confirmed it and I was diagnosed uh >> [music] >> with biliary atresia and needed a urgent uh emergency surgery [music] and uh after he's going through the Kasai surgery and we saw him laying in bed, [music] sick, not able to smile, it just uh was very hard. It was very hard to see. It's uh very hurtful.

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1. 0:05If I would have [music] the words to say thank you, I would tell them all.…
2. 1:06As we arrived to the ER in Columbia, they told us that he most probably has…
3. 2:25In the process of the liver donation >> [music] >> We did testing. We learned the…
4. 3:28It was a week before Pesach. All of a sudden our baby Shmuel got a got…
5. 4:35>> And the donor was shocked us. He's a tzaddik. He He also had plans to…
6. 5:37floor of a valley, praying for a second life. My heart was trembling, my hope was…
7. 6:43desperation in their [singing and music] eyes. They fall to the souls, right into the fire…
8. 8:06>> Once I put down with the transplant [music] team and step-by-step we got and any…
9. 9:13>> [music] >> but I will ship the whole entire package. >> [music] >> I am…
10. 10:29>> I want to thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Austriker, for helping us, for saving our…

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