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Parshat Ki Teitzei, 9 Elul, 5780 | August 29, 2020

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Rabbi Gavriel Friedman

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Setting Up the Pieces

CHAPTER 1 Sunday, December 16, 2018 My wife had just given birth to a beautiful baby boy. Our happiness knew no bounds as we stared down at the precious gift G-d had just endowed us with. We took the first few treasured hours to revel in the bundle of joy that we held in our hands, after which I told my wife that I was going to head back home to tend to the other kids, and I would be back for her. A day later, as I took care of the other kids and prepared to head back to the hospital to pick up my wife and our newborn to bring them back home, I received a text message. It was my wife. “His sutures are closed on his head, which means he needs a pediatric surgeon. They know Dr. Levine.” My eyes stared at those words which almost seemed to pop out of my phone. “Serious?” I wrote back. “They said it’s not very serious, but that he’ll probably need surgery. Hang on… can’t talk. With the doctors right now…” My heart skipped a beat. I knew one thing. Whenever you talk about medicine or surgery shortly after a baby is born, something is of concern. Especially when the word pediatric is used in conjunction with surgeon, you begin to especially worry. While I stood taking in the first words of my wife which left me wondering what was up ahead for our newborn son, I had just missed The TorahAnyTimes Parshat Ki Teitzei 5780

what transpired back in my wife’s hospital room minutes before… “Yaron,” one doctor called to the other, “come here…” My wife, fluent in Hebrew, did not miss a beat. “What’s the problem?” But the doctors seemed to be under the impression that she had no idea what they meant as they conversed in Hebrew, presuming it was a foreign language to her. “He’s okay,” one doctor poorly tried to assuage my wife. But it didn’t take much for my wife to realize that when the doctor proceeded to use the expression, “Zeh lo b’seder (this is not good),” it meant exactly that. Something was not right. “What’s the problem?” my wife pressed. “Oh, you know, it’s okay… Just maybe take your son to a doctor.” Now, my wife was already with two doctors in a hospital, so the words, ‘Maybe take him to a doctor’ meant something more. “Is it the sutures? Are the sutures closed?” The doctors looked peculiarly back at my wife. “What did you say? How would you know that?” “Are they closed?” she repeated. “Yes,” the doctors replied just about in unison. “But how would you know?” CHAPTER 2 Four years before – February 11, 2014 My wife and I had just given birth to a beautiful baby boy, whom we went on to name Yonah. Two weeks after Yonah was born, my wife and I returned to the hospital for his scheduled two-week check-up. All seemed to go well until

Compiled and Edited by Elan Perchik

IN THIS ISSUE Rabbi Gavriel Friedman Setting Up the Pieces

Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair Six More Weeks

Mr. Charlie Harary Getting Real

DEDICATIONS L’iluy Nishmat R’ Elchonon Yaakov z”l ben R’ Shmuel Pinchos Manish ben Esther Meir Eliyahu ben Yaakov Dov Bechor ben Rivkah Shlomo Zalman ben R’ Mordechai Yisroel Tzvi Esther bat haRav Avraham Halevi zt”l Moshe Simcha ben Doniel Dov Ber Miriam bat Yeshayahu

Itai ben Orna

L’refuah Sheleima Deena bat Shoshana Chaya Raizel bat Dena Yerachmiel Eliyahu Ben Esther Riva Reuven ben Rochel

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