A well known Gabbai Tzedakah from Eretz Yisrael was badly wounded in a crash on Ocean Parkway in Flatbush on Tuesday night.
Sources tell YWN that Nosson (Nati) Yaffe was sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle when the driver lost control near Ave K, striking an oncoming vehicle in the opposite direction head-on.
Flatbush Hatzalah responded to the scene within moments of the crash, at around 10:30PM, and transported Yaffe to Maimonides Hospital. Yaffe and the young bochur who was driving were enroute to daven Maariv at Laundau’s. The driver, as well as the driver of the other vehicle, were not as seriously wounded.
Yaffe was diagnosed with at least 13 broken ribs and a broken sternum bone. He also suffered a collapsed lung. Yaffe is expected to make a full recovery B”EH, but is in a lot of pain.
A witness tells YWN that when Yaffe was reunited with his cell phone early this afternoon, he immediately began making phone calls about his scheduled appointments for Tzedakah. In tremendous pain and barely able to speak, he motioned for others to help him as continued on with his Avodas HaKodesh.
Yaffe, who is from Kiryat Sefer, is one of the leaders of Kupat Ha’ir in Bnei Brak.
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(Chaim Shapiro – YWN)
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Yup that’s him wearing the tallis and davening for the Amud. He’s one of Rav Chaim’s closest confidants. He’s an amazing person. He is here raising money! Poor guy! His condition is very, very painful.
A witness tells YWN that when Yaffe was reunited with his cell phone early this afternoon,….
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Reunited with a cell phone?
Say what??
Nati Gross or Nati Yaffe???
“….Reunited with a cell phone?…Say what??
Yes, Takes2….after he was treated in the ER for his injuries, he was presumably moved to a regular hospital recovery room where he was able to make calls to cancel/reschedule meetings or arrange for others to fill in for him. I’m not familiar with the title “Gabbai Tzadakah” but I’m presuming he is one of these shalichim from EY who fly over to NYC seemingly every motzi shabbos and drive around for a week or two collecting funds for various mosdos. Most of us use our cellphones to communicate on business matter and thats what this guy was doing, NOT going on the internet to play games or surf the web.
Uncle Mo, it’s Nosson Yaffe, or Nati. He’s in Maimonides. Go up and visit him!
Is it Nussi Yaffe originally from Gateshead?
Geordie613 that’s him alright!
Geordie613 that’s him alright!
See him at the Amud davening at Rav Chaim’s minyan.
Room 813 mincha tonight at 6 and maariv at 9 in his room
Gh. I dont know about you but when people who come back to thier phone after an extended time , they dont consider it a reunification.
Its absurd to even think that.
Takes 2: After incurring the emotional trauma resulting from an extended period of separation, the simcha of being “reunited” with one’s cellphone is a time of great joy and celebration. You appear to have no sense of what it means to bring back together a personal communication device containing the most sensitive and critical information in our daily lives and which we rely upon to organize our activities and engage in conversation with other with its owner. If a cellphone could bench gomel on being reunited with its owner, it would.
Yaapchik; I only remember him as a macher in Gateshead Yeshiva ketana. His beard wasn’t that big then. He is also one of the main people in Kehillas Ashkenaz in Kiryat Sefer, a shul of which I was a founding member 20 years ago.
Takes2-2tango – You don’t know Nussi Yaffe 😉
BTW: the driver was not such a young bochur. He is 27 years old (needs a shidduch).