“Good Shabbos sir. We are happy to inform you that a kidney has been found and you have to get to the hospital operating room immediately”, police told a chareidi resident of Beit Shemesh on Friday night.
The Beit Shemesh resident has been on the waiting list for a kidney and when the staff of the transplant unit of a hospital tried to reach him on Friday night, they were unable to do so because he is frum and did not answer the phone.
The husband of the woman in charge of the shift in the transplant unit is a police officer and she phoned him to assist in reaching the man. The necessary calls were made to the Beit Shemesh police station, and a police car was dispatched immediately, and then when the policemen realized the man had no way to get to hospital, they took him with lights and sirens on to expedite the trip.
Police were happy to learn that the man underwent the transplant surgery successfully and is now recovering B’chasdei Hashem.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Surly this type of chessed
will help bring moshiach
kol ha kavod
shcoyach
Not ONLY in Israel
25 years ago, Pesach, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (Boton) tried to reach my Brother-in-Law to say a kidney had just become available. A 20 year old was killed in Motorcycle accident. No one answered the phone during the Seder. The hospital called the Massachusetts State Police who dispatched two officers in a patrol car to the house.
They knocked on the door, apologized for the interruption, told the family the good news and then transported him to the hospital for the procedure.
In response to ctlawyer, very nice.
What distinguishes us from the goyim is tefillin shabbos and shmiras habris. It is understandable that goyim can do a kindness.
Freilechen purim
Sounds like a human thing to do, like they do in the US.
Not to answer the phone on a Friday night when it could potentially be a life saving kidney, is Rotzeiach.
Anyone on a kidney waiting list must carry a cellphone with him / her 24/7. To avoid chilul Shabbos they could have a specific ’emergency’ phone that only the hospital has the number.
Refuah Shelemoh to all those going through dialysis and waiting for a healthy kidney.
CTLAWYER, good story. I hope your Brother-in-law is still in good health today. That’s really a special “Afikoman” present, and I’m glad he left to the hospital immediately.
I wonder why YWN did not imagine that such a story can happen out of Israel. I wonder why ONLY IN ERETZ YISROEL is in caps. I wonder why.
It’s so nice that the stupid obsession with ‘policy’ that exists in America, (which prevents people’s ability to do chasadim such as these) doesn’t exist as much in eretz yisrael.
ocho sinco: Why don’t you read what CTLAWYER wrote?
avreichamshlomo, hows your shmiras habris going
《TheMir》has paskened he’s a רוצח !
How lucky we should consider ourselves for such erudite פוסקים!
The Mir’s comment is correct. When you are R’L at the risk of death from missing a telephone call on an organ-transplant or other life-saving therapy/procedure, keeping your phone on or arranging with someone nearby who is always available to alert you is obviously important, even for a shomer shabbos individual .
Hope this yid has a refuah shelamah and can help get the above message out to his friends and frum tzibur.