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I want to tell you a story I read this
week about a man from our community it's
funny I saw the story on Ash calm he
wrote it himself the men and I know him
from when I'm young and growing up in
New Jersey I I knew him when he was
little
anyway the story is like this the man's
name he wrote his name in the article
was Fred Batoche so Fred Batoche he was
learning in Israel and then I think in
the year 2005 and one day he starts
getting headaches I think it was his
third year in Israel he said he's
getting headaches and they're bothering
him and then it starts turning into
vomiting and he isn't feeling terrible
he can't learn day after day his
mother's worried about him he's too sick
to even get on a plane and come home
his mother flies to Israel and goes to
the doctor with him in Israel they take
blood tests and the doctor says terrible
news it showed that his kidneys were
functioning at only 10% capacity his
blood pressure was 175 over 115 and the
toxicity in his blood with this was a
shocking 13.6 when the normal level is
supposed to be 1 to 1.5 he's in the
hospital he went on dialysis immediately
and they told him your only chance of
survival is a kidney transplant there's
no way there's no other way at that time
they didn't have this renewal
organization that's doing such great
work it's very difficult to get a kidney
his mother and him looked into research
about getting the kidney they saw the
average wait time for a kidney is 7
years and law landed with thousands die
each year waiting to get a kidney so
he's put on several lists and they're
praying praying - Evan
nothing was really panning out the clock
was ticking one day his mother attended
a class and deal I think it was at the
Park Avenue shul and after the class all
the women are gathered in the hallway
there's a torrential downpour they're
all waiting for the rain to stop and the
mother says to all the ladies she says I
want to make a better heart gathering in
my house that everyone makes better horn
and we all say Amen and it's a hoot for
my son who needs it if why should I mind
he's very sick can anybody help me with
it this girl in the crowd young woman
Judy she takes out her planner she says
I'll help which day do you want to do it
I'll make the phone calls out there saw
that great her and Judy planning for
that week maybe was on a Wednesday or a
Thursday and they got a hundred and
fifty ladies to come to our house they
got Rebbetzin will come a shame to come
give dividend please look about the
power of a blessing they raised money
for honey and it she said I L and
everyone made a bit our slow clear with
Cavanaugh and the whole crowd answered
our men was a very nice gathering very
elevating that Shabbat a few days later
Fred says we'll add on a lunch table
eating Shabbat lunch and the phone rings
the answering machine picks up and they
hear on the machine this is the
Montefiore kidney transplant center and
you Frederick Batoche have just won the
lottery
congratulations we have a 1 out of 10
million perfect matching kidney for you
please call back as soon as possible of
course it's a matter of life and death
they're allowed to call on Shabbat they
called back it turned out a kidney just
became available in Texas
it's perfect condition and it's an
amazing it's a full six antigen match
for his what he needed which was like
hitting they said all six numbers in the
back in the lottery and he said the way
I got it was amazing
because of my rare blood type I was put
on a shorter list and that day all the
people ahead of me for some reason
couldn't get it
this one was sick this one was this one
with that I went to the top of the list
and I got the kidney but all Hashem was
it was a success and he survived and
then about six or eight months later his
mother is still in contact with this
judy judy is ready to go out on she to
him then his mother says I think I have
a great guy for you and she suggests
Judy for her son Fred and in December of
2007 Judy and Fred get married Judy was
helping out Fred get the kidney is
helping out a future husband she gets
married
and together in they're living in
Brooklyn they said that over the last 10
years they have organized about 200
Barack gatherings teaching people
to say but I thought slowly with kibana
Hashem is running the world there's no
question about it he's involved in every
step every second of our lives you've
just experienced another Torah class
brought to you pack Torah any time calm
