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I wanted to share with you an article from this week’s HaModia. The woman who inspired my kidney donation was the one featured in your article: “Chabad Mother Donates Kidney.” I want to thank her for the initial inspiration. Just like her story inspired my donation, I am prayerful and hopeful my story can do so for someone else, please Hashem! May it be a kidney chain of mitzva goreres mitzva.
The week before the surgery I went to daven at the Ohel with my friend, Rabbi DovBer Engel, son of my shliach Rabbi Yisroel Engel of Denver, to ask for the Lubavitcher’s Rebbe’s blessing that the upcoming transplant should be successful.
The day before the surgery I had an appointment to meet with my surgeon, Dr. Daniel Herron. My friend Reb Yosef Yellin drove me to the hospital.
A few minutes prior to arriving Reb Yosef gave me an envelope. Inside was a crisp dollar bill from the Rebbe’s holy hand, dated 15 Menachem-Av 5749, that he had received from Reb Michoel Atlan, to be given to me. I was a small child of four years old when this dollar was originally given by the Rebbe. It was explained that the dollar was always meant for me, finally in its rightful home; they’d only been holding onto it in the meantime.
I realized I could say the same thing about my left kidney, now in the body of my recipient, a sweet holy Yid, finally in its rightful home; I, too, had only been holding onto it in the meantime.
I’d davened at the Ohel, and a week later the Rebbe had found a way to give me a dollar, exactly one day prior to the surgery, wishing me: “BROCHA V’HATZLACHA.”
The tzadik always finds a way!
A gutten chodesh Iyar. As we know, Iyar is an acronym for Ani Hashem Rofecha. May all the cholim indeed be healed speedily and completely! Moshiach Now!
-Feivel Yosef Leventhal, 27
Denver, Colorado
To learn more about kidney donation, contact Renewal at [email protected] or 718-431-9831. Or visit www.renewal.org
You have always been a true example of what Ahavas Yisroel is all about! You are truly amazing!
Z P from Denver
2 fathers in crown heights are still waiting for a kidney. If you’re truely inspired, and healthy, please consider saving a life. What could be more special than that?
Feivel,
No Words!!! love your comment.
With your unbelievable generous gift, you have raised all of mankind.
bizchut tzadikkim like Adam Feivel moshiach will come soon beezrat hashem
Feivel is a very good bochur. I daven with him in shul. He’s a very good man.
in your merit may all the cholim have a Refua Shleima
You are a special person who wanted to help someone in need that you never met. I feel a part of you is now going to make someone not healthy but a new lease on life. deb m.
All revealed good blessings to you Feivel Yosef, forever!
Feivel is a TZADDIK!!!
Kol hakavod, Fievel! May you have kol tuv selah, begashmiyus uveruchniyus tomid kol hayomim!
Feivel Yosef Leventhal is a young man that we have know for many years. He is truly a tzaddik! My father was the recipient of a heart transplant that gave him 7 years! A transplant is a gift that goes much further than the recepient. It touches so many lives around that person. We should all have the strength to do such chesid as Feivel!
This story is not about me, or my recipient … or Zelda, or her recipient. It’s truly beyond all of us; living organ donation is an open modern miracle from Hashem Yisborach, entirely beyond the natural order. To those considering kidney donation, please know that many of us kidney donors consider this to be the greatest experience of our lives, only regretting that we can’t do it again. You will be in some pain for a few days, but it’s a small price to pay to (hopefully, please Hashem!) give a Yid his or her life back. To this special… Read more »
Feivel….you are and always will remain the special neshama who donated to Meshulem so he can have a new life. We are forever grateful and thankful to have met you and hope to see you very soon as you are now connected with us for life.
With stories like this and the pumping of oil in Israel, Mosiach has to be here. From the time this young man was a child he has always had a special special neshama. May he continue to be an inspiration and blessing for all of us.
The Tzaddik of Denver himself. We love you Feivel!
Though I don’t know this yid – I can whole heartily say that his is AMAZING with deep Kochos! I am amazed at everyone who is able to do this. WOW!
In your Zchus we should go out of Galus NOW!!!!
The power of giving!!
iy”H
Yosef is about mitzvahs.
From a Yosef transported Yid in California
A family friend 🙂
you are famous now ?!?! your neighbor
bring the geulah
nogeia to this article of the Rebbe and miraculous refua, here’s the kidney donor telling over a healing miracle story of the Rebbe, from To Know and To Care:
http://youtu.be/mZWi3uDs8Yw
Thanks for posting.
Denver CO is the best!!!
Achdus of Yidden!!!