Elana Silber & Shlomo Mirsky: The Cancer Fight

Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer

Living Lchaim

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.

Sharsheret, a national non-profit organization, improves the lives of Jewish women and families living with or at increased genetic risk for breast or ovarian cancer through personalized support and saves lives through educational outreach.

Sharsheret was founded in November 2001, four months after Rochelle Shoretz, a 28 year old young Jewish mother, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Immersed within a close-knit Jewish community in northern New Jersey, Rochelle had many offers to help with meals and to transport her sons to after-school programs.

What she really wanted, though, was to speak to another young mom who was going to have to explain to her children that she was going to lose her hair to chemotherapy, and what it would be like to prepare for the High Holidays knowing she was facing a life-threatening illness. Though her grandmother had died of the disease, cancer was a taboo subject still not discussed within her family and, she soon recognized, within the Jewish community at large.

In this episode, Yaakov speaks to Shlomo, Rochelle's eldest son, about his experiences and challenges with the cancer battle his mom fought. Elana Silber, a close friend of Rochelle & CEO of Sharsheret, joins in to help explain the origin story to the org and how they impacted so many people during the most fifilt time of their lives.

SPECIAL THANK YOU: Sara Tenenbaum for helping make this episode a reality.

You can help Sharsheret here: https://sharsheret.org/donate-now/

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• Shimon Dovid ben Yaakov Shloima

• Miriam Sarah bas Yaakov Moshe

• Rochel Leah bas Moshe

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0:00.0	And we also say stick to the facts we like to be our own authors and write a whole fiction story before we know any information
0:05.4	Oh my gosh if I have like a backache I'm like writing I'm like okay I'll start maybe should do a will and yeah
0:10.8	And like it's a good point.
0:12.6	So we slow you down, but I think there,
0:14.4	it can be concerns about, you know, as big
0:17.8	as worrying about dying or as little as if I'm going in for chemotherapy
0:21.1	and I have to lose my hair
0:22.3	and I have to put my kids to bed
0:23.7	tonight and they're going to see me bald, how is that going to affect my kids?
0:28.0	From those people could be worried about finances. People could be worried
0:30.8	they're making a Simcha, right? The daughter's getting married or their
0:33.7	sisters getting married and how do they go to the Simcha looking like a cancer patient? So there's
0:39.2	a lot of things that people are concerned about.
0:41.1	Welcome back to another episode of Inspiration for the nation.
0:43.2	I'm Yaku Linger, and what if I told you that you're going to die?
0:48.0	You will.
0:48.8	You are going to die.
0:49.7	I am telling you that.
0:50.5	But what if I told you you're gonna die a lot sooner than you anticipated.
0:54.0	That is something no one wants to hear and in this week's episode we talk about
1:00.0	the experience and what happened with the person, Ruhi Shoratz, she got a cancer diagnosis that was not good.
1:10.0	And this whole entire episode is about the movement she started from when she heard the news
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