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On Tuesday afternoon, Hatzalah and Chaveirim members from Rockland County / New Square, New York, were searching for a missing man on the Hudson River near the George Washington Bridge, when suddenly they heard a splash near them. They then heard a woman yelling, “Help me, help me!”. The group rushed to pull the 25-year-old woman out of the freezing water.
The young woman had miraculously survived the 200-foot plunge, after making a death leap into the Hudson. Just last year there were 18 reported suicide jumps from the same bridge, and an additional four this year and no one but this woman had survived.
The young woman was miraculously conscious as rescuers pulled her out of the water. She was sent to the hospital with a badly broken leg, but otherwise she was healthy.
The rescue team happened to be at the spot the lady had jumped at the exact right moment, and she would have not have survived without them, as there were no other boats around at that time.
The crew says the search for the missing New Square man body is still ongoing, so they can have a proper funeral for him. They say they won’t stop until his body is found.
The following is via New Square: Its almost a week and a body of a yid is still not recovered and not able to come to its final rest, there are askunim working day and night with private companies to look for the body and it already costed thousands of dollars please if you can donate to help out with the search Gofundme.com/neshamah, thanks in advance
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Thank you Hatzalah for your tireless work in helping out and saving the lives of people every day! Hashem should repay you and your families many times over!
Not that he needs it, but from this story there is proof to the psak of the Chasam Sofer Zt”l regarding the halachic status of “suiciders”. He held that they don’t have a din of me’abed atzmo lodaas because at the last second they have charata. What bigger proof is there, than after jumping 200 feet to die, she is still yelling Help Me!!
Chai Chai Yoducha!
Thank you, “Uncle Ben”!
It wasn’t mentioned anywhere on Wor (the station I listen to) that it was Hatzalah that saved the woman