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Moshe Kempinski
04 September 2002
Mazal-Yehudit Naimi was thirteen years old when the brutal attack outside the city of Immanuel this summer critically injured her. The terror attack left her with a head filled with shrapnel, teetering on the brink of death. The prayers of her family and the community enclosed her in an envelope of love and hope as she remained deep in a coma. Every minute seemed like an eternity.
Last week those prayers bore fruit and Mazal began to stir in her hospital bed. Within hours loving friends and relatives surrounded her. When Mazal finally opened her eyes, joy and relief burst forth in a wave of tears, song and laughter. The stunned doctors shared in these emotional moments but cautioned the family that the road ahead was still difficult and dangerous.
Within a day Mazal began demanding that she be allowed to attend the wedding of her brother, planned for that weekend in Jerusalem. The doctors cautioned in the strongest of terms that driving her to Jerusalem would endanger her recovery. Mazal and her family understood the difficulties, and though fully appreciating the scope of the miracles they had already witnessed, were nonetheless broken hearted.
Yehudah Meshi-Zahav, the leader of the Jerusalem branch of Zakah, was deeply moved as he sat near Mazalīs bed and heard her heartrending cries. Zakah is an organization made up of Ultra Orthodox Yeshiva students who have become a commonplace sight at the scene of each terrorist incident, men in yellow vests crawling through charred wreckage looking for human remains. These men make themselves available 24/7 in order to ensure that every victim, dead or alive, is treated with respect and honor. Long after the wounded are taken from the scene, Zaka’s staff continues to remain involved with the victims and their families. It was in that context that Yehudah Meshi Zahav was sitting in Mazalīs hospital room. He immediately contacted many people in the community and raised money to rent a satellite dish and monitor. The Israeli phone company offered free satellite time, local merchants brought drinks and refreshments and organization volunteers filled the hospital corridors on the night of the wedding. As Mazal lay in her bed she watched a giant screen and participated at the wedding Huppah. Her brother and his new bride spoke to her and asked for her blessings. Subsequently, family members blessed Mazal by satellite and received her blessings in return. Tears filled the eyes of every individual at both locations. The ‘guests’ in the hospital corridors then burst into songs of rejoicing as they danced together with the bride and groom in Jerusalem This virtual wedding was far from being virtual. An act of loving kindness had made virtual reality into reality.
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God bless,
Kindgo
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