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"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



4 May 2012

Moving videos

IsraelMatzav posted a moving video of a woman who woke up one morning at the age of 24 paralyzed from the chest down due to a stroke in her spinal cord.
Moran Samuel won the gold medal in a rowing competition for the disabled in Italy. Since the organizers didn't have a tape of the Israeli national anthem, she picked up the microphone and sang it herself.
The following advice she gave when she was interviewed is a lesson for all.

"If you look at an obstacle as an obstacle, there's a good chance it will knock you down. If you look at an obstacle as a challenge, then you'll do the maximum to overcome it."

Below is a video of  a rally being held on May 3, 2012 in front of the Bolivian Mission in Manhattan for Jacob Ostreicher, a businessman who has been imprisoned in a Bolivian jail for close to a year, without charge.

2 comments:

  1. Does anyone have his Hebrew name so everyone can pray for him properly?

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  2. Yaacov Yehuda ben Shaindel. Please go to the "Free Jacob Now" website or Facebook page to sign our petition to President Obama to intercede on behalf of Jacob to free him from captivity in Bolivia

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