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The righteous man who infected Israel with the giving virus

2020-04-25T22:02:22.825Z


Moti Sonnenfeld


Some people are capable of giving to others, there are those who love to give, but few are the ones who are able to teach to give life in love to people they do not know without differences in religion, race, gender and social status. Only the love of man, the creator of life, and the desire to reciprocate kindness with others motivate their work. 

Last Thursday, Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber Zetzel, who founded and headed the Gift of Life, was an amazing organization of its magnitude that for the past ten years has been behind 820 altruistic kidney transplants, some of them extremely complex. The story of "Gift of Life" began when Rabbi Bar, a kidney transplant himself, met a young man named Pinchas, a member of a bereaved family, who urgently needed a kidney transplant, but in the absence of a suitable donor, the urgent procedure was delayed and his body no longer stood. 

Rabbi Barr was helpless at the time, but at the heart of his decision to devote his life to answering every person in need of a life-saving transplant, the special organization was established to mediate healthy people who want to donate to a kidney and patients who need a transplant. Initially the idea was accepted with hesitation and skepticism, no one believed that people would come and donate a kidney to people they did not know, but Rabbi Haber did not care about skeptics and began the fundraising work.

What started with individual donations became a stream of donors, a friend brought a friend and a family member brought a family member, and another mitzvah brought another life into the world, with 99 percent of donors being members of the religious or ultra-Orthodox, and the transplant constituting a representative mosaic of all levels of society. In Israel, religious as secular, Jewish and Arab. In front of Rabbi Bar's eyes stood one and only task, "to give life to another man."

The amazing activity of Rabbi Haber brought the State of Israel to the top of the list of altruistic transplants. The rabbi was the father of all the transplant and donor, was not a donor or transplant he did not visit the hospital, and maintained a great relationship with them after the transplant ... They all felt like one family member, a 'family of grace'. Rabbi Haber did not stop for a moment to look at the huge plant he had set up in his heart and his ten fingers, but always thought through how to help another family and another patient, and so, over a year ago, in partnership with the Danieli Sonnenfeld Memorial Foundation, established the Danieli Gift, a department Within the organization that came to answer particularly complex cases and also in this area came to amazing results.

Here is the place to mention that Chief Rabbi David Lowe and his entire family, as well as former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, stood to the right of the same righteous two years ago, apparently out of disrepute, trying to stop his life's work, which deserves to continue to be strengthened in his memory and uplifting his soul.

The passing away of the Savior Angel is a tremendous loss of no value, a loss to all sectors and religions that share their lives in this land. The entire nation is in another heavy mourning to the cult of one of the special people who lived with us, who taught us what a single person can do, what is grace, when there is no limit to giving to others. 

The depth of Rabbi Haber's life's work was to make the confinement a reality, a kidney became a rebirth and a life. The person who redefined the concept of "mine, yours, and yours"

May the sore memory of the hearts of all the people be blessed. 

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Source: israelhayom

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