Dear Friends,
One of the saddest consequences of sheltering in place has been our inability to visit loved ones -- particularly the elderly and the infirm. Here in America, unless your loved one is living on the first floor of a home or facility, it’s been almost impossible to visit.
The same is true elsewhere. But in one town in Israel, an ingenious method was employed at one particular nursing home to allow relatives to visit. A large construction crane provided by the Jewish Agency was brought to the home, and relatives were permitted to ride up on it to see their relatives sitting on their porches.
Below is an Israeli news report on this story that is worth watching. I found it very touching. The report is in Hebrew with English subtitles. Several families are interviewed, but if you want to focus on one, I suggest that you keep your eye on one particular visitor: a twelve-year-old girl named
Adi Sokolsky
who arrives eagerly looking forward to seeing her Saba and Savta, her grandparents, whom she adores. (As she tells us, she loves them SOOOOO much.) We’re introduced to Adi at 2:10-3:10, and we see her again at 7:34. You may want to have a tissue handy.
Enjoy!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Carl Perkins
