On the Operating Table, I Made a Promise to God

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

My doctor at that point runs in and she looks at me and she's like, "Okay, I'm not taking out your uterus yet. Um, we're going to try one one more thing." At that point, I'm just lying there like, "I don't care. Do whatever you have to do because I'm just thinking of my three children. I'm thinking like, I'm only 25 years old. Like, I you know, I need to live and so I sat there in that moment and I was like, I knew I needed to like take you know, I knew I needed to like take you know, do something big. In general, I do feel like I have a very close connection with Hashem and I felt like right away when I'm in this crisis, I was that's like the only thing you turn to or you know, you have to just turn straight to Hashem and I said, "Okay, I'm going to stop wearing my wigs." Would you give up something so important to you if it was for Hashem? Ellie found herself having a once-in-a-lifetime experience talking to God when her life was literally on the line and her decision might shock you. I am honored about your background? Sure. So, I grew up in Hollywood, Florida, regular like mainstream. Um, went to all the regular basic schools there, Bais Yaakov, went on to seminary. Um, I got married to my husband right like a few months after I got back from my year in Israel and we now live in Los Angeles. What seminary did you go to? I went to Machon Alta. Okay. Yeah. Oh, nice. Oh, cool. Yeah, I actually went to Neve and Shearim Bais Yaakov. Same. Oh, nice. So, yeah, right when I came home like a

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1. 0:00My doctor at that point runs in and she looks at me and she's like, "Okay,…
2. 3:33scarves. So, it really depends where you are. But you you you were not necessarily the…
3. 7:05with Hashem and I I felt like right away when I'm in this crisis, I was…
4. 10:11says your wife's going to be healthy. It it overrides anything, any doctor saying, anyone saying…
5. 15:19like if you never know? Like what was it? I don't know. I don't think it…
6. 18:52well, do you like think wigs are assur? And I was like, I'm in no place…
7. 21:56really do feel this sense of like and this clarity of like I'm doing the right…
8. 25:58the times of like, you know, our imahos or whatever. That's this is how the ti-…
9. 28:59let my husband see you." And I was like, "What?" And she's like, "He is dying…
10. 32:32having those people like sending you the message or coming over to you and just it…

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