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[music] Yehonasan Chaim Mechel is a paramedic [music] and EMT specialist. He often takes patients to the hospital to the emergency room. His rov, the rov of the Young Israel of White Plains, Rav Shmuel Greenberg shlita, was very [music] not well. He had contracted COVID. He was intubated. He could barely breathe. Yehonasan decided that he would [music] take patients periodically to the emergency room of NYU, and once there, he'd make his way to the rov's room and he'd make his way to the rov's room and say something to him and daven for him. [music] It was a COVID ward, complete lockdown. No one was allowed in except for medical staff. Family members, [music] shul members, no one could visit the rov. Over a period of 4 months, almost on a weekly basis, he figured out a way to take a patient to the emergency [music] room to see his rov. One time, he's in the emergency room transferring a patient from the gurney onto the bed, and he sees a sight. It was a nurse who was very provocative. He immediately looked down. He refused to
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- 0:00[music] Yehonasan Chaim Mechel is a paramedic [music] and EMT specialist. He often takes patients to…
- 0:31he'd make his way to the rov's room and say something to him and daven for…
- 1:02immediately looked down. He refused to look at her. He said, "Ribbono shel Olam, in the…
- 1:32Now, every single week, he'd come to the room of the rov, and he'd ask the…
- 2:07By you knowing it's such a powerful force. By not looking at something that is enticing…
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