R' Kalman Samuels: A Promise to Our Blind & Deaf Son
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
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🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
Kerry Samuels life changed on a short trip to Israel. After becoming and Orthodox Jew a bigger life change was still waiting to happen.
Rabbi Kalman Samuels and his wife, Malki, started Shalva, a life-changing center for people with disabilities in Jerusalem. His inspiration came after his son Yossi became blind and deaf at just 11 months old.
Determined to help Yossi and others like him, Rabbi Samuels created Shalva to empower individuals with disabilities and promote inclusion in society.
Through his unwavering dedication and commitment to social justice, he has transformed countless lives around the world. Rabbi Samuels and Malki's remarkable story is a true testament to the power of compassion and the incredible impact that one person can make in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | In this particular rabbit, who my wife admired, she was probably 50 years old, maybe my wife was 24, 25, |
| 0:07.7 | and she came and she visited and she said to Malky that you know Malky it's not fair that you want to keep this |
| 0:15.8 | child at home you can't put a glass on the table you can't put a vase out it's a life |
| 0:20.6 | and plastic it's it's an extraordinary limited life where you're running after him and just watching your other young children from him and with him, etc. |
| 0:28.0 | And it's not fair to your husband and you have to think about taking this child out of the family setting. |
| 0:33.0 | And Malke said to her, she says, Rabbits, and you know how much I admire you and I'll watch you appreciate you. |
| 0:39.0 | But you do realize that you have a serious problem. |
| 0:42.0 | She looks at Martha, she says, |
| 0:43.0 | like, what is that? |
| 0:44.0 | She says, you don't believe in God. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome back to another very special episode |
| 0:51.0 | of Inspiration for the nation. |
| 0:53.3 | You'll hear more in this episode |
| 0:55.4 | how I got to Rabbi Kamen Samuels. |
| 0:59.5 | A lot to do with one of my favorite Instagram accounts, favorite LinkedIn accounts, Twitter accounts, they're |
| 1:04.8 | everywhere, humans of Judaism. You'll hear more about that later. But how many times in our lives |
| 1:10.5 | do we have a struggle, a road roadblock something just stopping us from getting to our |
| 1:15.9 | full potential how many times do we use that roadblock as the foundation for our |
| 1:22.3 | roadmap to build our lives. Well that's what |
| 1:26.5 | Rebitzen Samuels did and you'll hear a lot about her. I really should have had both of them |
| 1:31.9 | on this podcast and even ask |
| 1:33.7 | Robbie Kalman Samuels for his wife also to be here and he said that she has never |
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