Chanukah Day #3: For the Love of Mom | 5781

[Music] reader guttenger is a real jewish matriarch living in brooklyn new york she has raised a wonderful noble generous jewish family and it was the first night of passover 2020 right after the seder she could not breathe they call an ambulance they rush her to one of new york's finest hospitals she was diagnosed with covet 19. the next fighter the second savior her son my friend isaac a very special jew a great businessman in new york gets a call from his mother she's frantic the doctors are very very anxious they want to induce her into a coma and put her on a respirator she doesn't know what to do she feels alone she has nobody to speak to she has no support she's frightened isaac rushes to the hospital he wants to be with his mother during these faithful moments you all know the policy they tell them no family members are allowed to read this pandemic he begs he pleads i'm an emt i'm a paramedic policy is policy they will not let him go into the hospital he finds a company and this company finds private nurses for patients for astronomical prices isaac runs to the manager of the company he says listen my mother needs a private nurse and i want to be that private nurse can you register me as her nurse the guy says are you miss sugar are you crazy are you a certified nurse isaac says okay how do i become a nurse he says well you have to go to college and learn how to become a nurse i'll take you a few years you're a hasidic businessman you're not a nurse he says can i get certification online he says well you know due to the pandemic crisis and the shortage of nurses in new york hospital they just passed the law that you could become certified by taking a series of exams online i isaac against the link he says goodbye to his family he takes some lots of water he locks himself up in his office for three days and three nights purely sleeping and he learns through all of the material after three days he takes the exam he passes with flying colors he runs back to the company manager and he says now my family wants to hire your company so that you give my mother a nurse the man says okay who do you want your mother's yours to be this is me son the man says are you crazy what happened she shows him the certification the man says okay takes the documents he rushes to the hospital comes in what are you doing here why are you back isaac my family just hired a private dress for my mother where is this nurse here you look at it here are my papers they already knew this guy this is forged man of the hospital tells him you can be arrested you get out of here right now he says why don't you phone the number and find out if it's forced or authentic of course it was authentic and that day isaac became the private nurse of his mother he did not leave her bedside for three weeks until she came out of her coma today she's home she made thank god a full recovery friends to make sure that the flame of judaism and of the jewish people will never be extinguished did you think they knew how it would turn out do you think they had any appreciation of how in the world they could be successful they did not but when you have true values to fight for when you are committed to do the right thing to bring life and justice and hope and healing and truth and love into the world you fight and the miracle will happen you