By COLlive reporter
Photos by Levi Liberow
The morning after the Bar Mitzvah of his youngest son, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz and his family traveled to Cambria Heights to pray together at the Ohel of the Rebbe.
In any other scenario, such a trip would be a simple drive from Crown Heights to Queens. But when the father has bulbar ALS, a severe form of the disease that attacks nerves and muscles, snatching away his ability to move or speak, such a trip takes a team to coordinate.
The 47-year-old Chabad Shliach was driven on Sunday to the Old Montefiore Cemetery by a special ambulette from Citywide Mobile Response, a trusted emergency and non-emergency ambulance service in the New York City.
They were professional, kind and accommodating, a friend of Rabbi Yitzi told COLlive.com. “They happily donated their services for this special occasion.”
This was the very first time that Rabbi Yitzi, his wife Dina Hurwitz and their family of 7 children are visiting the Rebbe’s Ohel together at the same time. It was also the first time Rabbi Yitzi was there since he lost his mobility.
“It was a very moving experience for him and everyone else,” said his friend. “It was important for him to to do this for his son and this was the most moving and meaningful part of his trip to New York – to be at the Rebbe.”
With his black hat and kapota on, as customary when visiting the Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzi was wheeled into the Ohel to daven for blessings and draw strength and inspiration.
As reported on COLlive.com, this has been his first trip in years as he has been bed-ridden to his home in Los Angeles.
He has been keeping in touch with those around him and writing articles -published on COLlive.com- by using laser-based software that tracks eye movements to nudge a laptop cursor through its paces. It can take him a full day to complete a column, it was reported.
His flight New York was orchestrated and funded by Hatzolah Air which assists with medical, humanitarian, disaster relief, compassion, and end-of-life trips.
To donate to his medical costs, visit hurwitzfamilyfund.com
Rabbi Yitzi In New York – COLlive coverage
- Rabbi Yitzi Celebrates Youngest Son’s Bar Mitzvah
- Rabbi Yitzi’s First Visitors in New York
- Wall Street Journal Profiles “Rabbi With ALS”
- Hurwitz Family Fund Thanks Hatzola Air
- Welcome to New York, Rabbi Yitzi
- Rabbi Yitzi Flies to New York
Let’s utilize the feelings evoked by these images, to be inspired to fully and completely return to Hashem (Teshuva I’la-ah).
Thank you COLLIVE for sharing this moment with us.
no words-
Hashem please send Moshiach and help Rabbi Yitzi be 100% back to his health in revealed ways, and even stronger
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I was so happy to see him there today. Mazal tov, mazal tov.
Wow you can see in the last picture how he is gazing at his precious son, precious.
BH
May this family’s prayers by the Ohel tip the scales to bring us the Rebbe MHM and the Geulah Shleima now!!!
You’re doing such and incredible thing. No words. May Hashem send everything you need and want in a revealed way.
wow nice we want Moshaich now