The Passion of Chavi - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

[Music] shallow there's a well-known family of Hesed living in the north living in New York called the Rabinowitz family and this Rabinowitz family would ply all sorts of underprivileged people with acts of loving kindness they raise funds and they distributed the funds they fed the hungry it was the family which was known for their hesed and they started training their children at a very young age they had a daughter called javi 9 years old javi was assigned as part of her training for Hesed she was assigned to a blind lady 63 year old lady who was blind and hadn't mastered Braille and Hobbie was assigned to go to her every day and read to her and she would read her stories and read her messages and this was javis training one day after a session when she finished reading to this lady enables mrs. Lieberson when she finished reading her the story the lady sighed and said only another two years having said what do you mean she said well in two years I'll no longer be blind how he said what do you mean she said I'm 63 I get a pension at the age of 65 my blindness is temporarily I have a condition that developed in my eyes which made me blind and there's very expensive surgery that costs well in excess of $100,000 that can completely restore my eyesight but I don't have the funds two years time I'm gonna get pension that's accrue to me all the earth and with this pension money I'm going to be able to my eyesight restored javi was tremendously overwhelmed by this and she said but that can't be how can you suffer for another two years when it's just a question of money how he said I'm gonna raise the money and you're gonna have this operation this week and she said her who's the doctor and this missus libsyn mentioned to a certain well-known eye surgeon so have you said okay I'm gonna make sure that this week you have your operation Travie went the next day to school and she made a collection she went to the big envelope big manila envelope and she made a collection and she went from class to class and was raising funds for the operation of the blind lady at the end of the day she had raised the grand total of 83 dollars so Toby said great I've got all this money now it was in dimes and cents and quarters and I've got all this money now and she tracked down where's this great professor this eye surgeon and she went to his office's she came to the office and the people asked her who yes and she said I have to see the doctor now and they were a little bit concerned this little nine-year-old and without asking any further she virtually pushed her way past and went into the doctor's room and she said doctor there's a lady called mrs. nipson and mrs. nipson needs surgery and you can perform the surgery but she doesn't have the money well I raised the money and she plunked unto his desk envelope that she had proudly raised and the doctor was completely shocked by the power of this you know of this young girl he emptied the contents and together they countered the grand total of 83 dollars to which he said yeah that'll do it that's probably how much I need and he wouldn't take no for an answer he arranged immediately for within the next day or two mrs. libsyn would be operated upon and the operation was a great success mrs. linton's eyesight was restored when hobby's parents heard of this they very embarrassed Lee came and they heard that hubby had perpetrated this they came to the hospital and they said you know we have a grand it here we know that this operation costs in excess of $100,000 so we will have to find the we'll take loans you know my daughter our daughter incurred this huge debt but we'll go for it we're happy that she took it was such with such passion and power the doctor said it's fully paid the eighty three dollars was definitely worth the hundred thousand dollars that this operation costs and I'm ride myself that these eighty three dollars is the most beautiful eighty three dollars I've ever seen it's certainly worth well in excess of a hundred thousand dollars when something is done with purity and passion it carries itself very far it takes the purity and the naivety and the sweetness and beauty of a young child that when something needs to be done and it's important then we don't waste time there are no barriers this is a great attitude for us to take in life we should always be blessed with the purity and the naivety and the passion of a young child it's so beautiful and it goes a long way [Music] you [Applause]