Rabbi Yitzi & Dina Hurwitz: Our 10 Year Journey with ALS

Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer

Living Lchaim

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

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

R' Yitzi, known for being the life of the party, and his family were shluchim in California, leading a relatively normal life until Yitzi was diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in 2013. Despite the debilitating nature of the disease, Yitzi continued to compose music and divrei torah with the help of a special computer program. His wife Dina has been an incredible support throughout his illness, and has also shared their story with others in the hope of inspiring and providing comfort to those facing similar struggles.

Yitzi's diagnosis was devastating, but he and Dina refused to let it defeat them. They have used their experiences to help others, and have been featured in various media outlets for their inspirational message of faith and resilience. While Yitzi's condition is challenging, their love for each other and their strong sense of community have helped them to face whatever comes their way.

They currently live in Los Angelis, California, have 7 children and one adorable grandbaby.

• Help support the Hurwitz family here: https://hurwitzfamilyfund.com/

• Read R' Yitzi's Torah here: http://yitzihurwitz.blogspot.com/

• Wear tefillin for R' Yitzi: https://tefillinforyitzi.com/

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0:00.0	So that's really what I focused on the last couple years is to find
0:06.1	finding that balance for myself because I did I lost the balance like there was too
0:10.9	much hard not enough beautiful, not enough wonderful.
0:15.0	And throughout life, I think that's how we get through the heart is that we have a balance of the good and the easy and there just was no balance.
0:23.3	So I had to really retreat into myself
0:25.6	and find what are the things that really God wants for me?
0:31.0	Like not what I think other people expect for me not what I think somebody meant when they said something just really like pull into yourself and say am I doing this for myself or am I doing this for other people and if it's for other people aside for you it's in the kids right now I can't do
0:50.0	Welcome back to the most special episode of Inspiration for the Nation I have ever shot.
0:54.6	When I started podcasting, I always had this dream to talk to people that have been going through something
1:00.2	in their life, a big challenge. Little did I know that we would be speaking to someone
1:05.0	who literally physically cannot talk he can only communicate through his eyes
1:10.1	I flew to LA I flew to California to sit down with Dean Harrowitz to talk about her
1:16.2	experience with her husband contracting ALS for the past 10 years and also I got just have a conversation with Yitzi. I asked him a bunch of questions and he answered all of them with his eyes.
1:27.0	With the use of technology, we've edited it that it's a seemingly easy flowy conversation this conversation is so
1:36.7	powerful I have to thank Dina for being so open and authentic with us.
1:43.4	Yitzi Harowitz is basically a Jew celebrity
1:46.5	for those that know him, obviously.
1:48.0	And there's, for those that don't stick around,
1:51.7	you'll get to know who he is and what their family is about
1:54.4	it's it's a really beautiful episode and I yeah this this to me to be able to have this conversation to give both of them a voice on this platform.
2:06.4	It has been a dream come true.
2:08.8	I like to thank my sponsors, we're going to start the episode very soon,
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