We watched their children growing up. The older ones are married and we now share their children and grandchildren with them. This is a home of chesed 24/7. The Rabbi and his wife are ALWAYS helping others. Over the past twenty-five years they have literally held us together through thick and thin. Countless friends and family members of ours have received the same warm hospitality!
When our older son was murdered, we stayed by them because the funeral and the shiva, period of mourning was in New York. They lite! rally took us under their wing. They constantly host us on our now bittersweet visits back to New York to see our orphaned grandchild and widowed daughter-in-law. Their home is our New York address and has been for this past quarter century! No words can express the love and kindness they show to us and to everyone who enters their simple home. They are people of action- of true ahavat yisrael, love for the nation of Israel.
Imagine how I felt when I received a call that one of their grandchildren, a 9-year-old has been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. They are the most unselfish and giving family that I know.
They don�t need money, however they need prayers and a special spiritual remedy called CHIDA. Please help me help them!
In effort to bring the mercy of Heaven, I join friends of the family who have committed to organize CHIDA Tehillim, Psalms readings for Pessel bat Yaffa
We are all one family, so we ask people to Please ! Volunteer to read a chapter representing a letter from her name (the CHIDA took the entire Book of Tehillim and has it regrouped by verses starting with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet - one chapter per letter) The reading has strict rules and will begin with G-d's help on Friday May 21 for 41 consecutive days.
We put out this call to serious Tehillim readers who want to participate in this awesome mitzva. (commitment is for all 41 consecutive days- read by daylight only- a minimum commitment of 15 minutes or approx. 10 pages- the reading will begin with G-d�s help Friday May 21 through Wednesday June 30))
Anyone who can participate is urged to contact :
Shoshana(West Coast CHIDA coordinator for Pessel bat Yaffa)
CHIDA books and instruction pages will be distributed free of charge. If you cannot commit to read CHIDA Tehillim, please add this name to your prayers and shul mishaberach, prayer roster.
Also, I want to let your readers know that I have taken it upon myself in the memory of my lost son, to promote CHIDA reading for anyone who wishes to organize a reading for a loved one; it would be my privilege to assist them in getting started.
Summer Days are long; this is the best time to do these readings. And unfortunately no doubt there are many others equally in need of this segula, spiritual remedy.
Thanks. May you always merit to do Kindness.
May 23, 2004 - Thanks to everyone who offered their spiritual help to Pessel bat Yaffa, the sick little young girl mentioned in last week's e-mail.
The author of last week's story wrote this follow-up:
* Today, Pessy's grandmother asked her, if she could wish for anything, what would she wish for? Pessy replied "for Mashiach!" (the Messiah).
Her grandmother asked her "why wouldn't you ask to get well?" Pessy replied, "if I ask for that, only I will get well, but if I ask for Mashiach, everyone will get well."
And this child is not even ten-years-old!
May her beautiful spirit and her wishes for all of us be her merit for a speedy recovery.
I ask again, that you pray for her recovery - Pessel bat Yaffa. She has several more rough days of treatment ahead.
July 2, 2004 - Pessy is doing fine- of course it is not easy- she is getting both chemo AND radiation for the leukemia. Keep the prayers going!
October 31, 2004 - Pessy is doing "well"- but she is presently in the children's Hospital in Philly- they had to pur her a port- the brovia kept getting infection and then she has to be monitered very closely- too risky for her so even thought the port is not so comfortable he mother said that the port wouldn't cause infection. She is still getting chemo- I think this phase is the big guns series. She had radiation already. BH the community in Lakewood has raised substantial sums of money so Yaffa (her mom) isn't working this school year (she is a special ed teacher)- this gives her the time for Pessy and the rst of her family. Keep praying. We're not out of the woods yet.
May 4, 2005 - regarding pessel bas yaffa - She is doing ok- the chemo is very rough on her. I am in Israel so I haven't the latest news, but I think that with our continued prayers, we will see a full recovery G-d willing.