This morning the jewish world was shocked and saddened by the gruesome news of 3 young innocent boys brutally murdered for one reason their religion. While the internet, blogs, whats app etc all speculate on when it happened, and what the low life president of America will or won’t say and what the PM of Israel will decide on what retaliation is necessary most of the world forgets the real tragedy here which is that 3 families and many extended families will NEVER be the same and there won’t go a minute of their lives that their family member will be forgotten. While the rest of the world looks for the latest updates, picture or hash tag one thing will always remain Yishmaaylim are nothing less then simple murderers that have less of a heart then the dust we step on. They are people that have no problem literally beheading or stoning their own family members because they may of married someone that the family didn’t approve of. They will torture little children and any human being that don’t adhere to their insane rules.
Now the simple question is what am I doing writing this on a blog of a child that has relapsed neuroblastoma? The answer is many people myself included have used the internet and any means we have to see statistics and then decide for themselves the outcome or what we can expect. What the world doesn’t realize is that there almost is no family and sadly there will be no family left in the world within a few years that cancer hasn’t affected. Everyone unfortunately will have a parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, cousin, nephew, niece or child in their lifetime that will be affected by this horrible machla. No one that suffered or suffers from it will ever be the same even after their full recovery. No family will ever forget what the family member went or is going thru. For a human being to walk into a Childrens Hospital and see the pain and suffering that innocent children go thru and be able to walk out without permanent damage to their own head is simply not possible.
Now the point of all this is that I’m trying to bring to others attention. One is anyone but someone that they themselves have gone thru a tragedy like the one the world found out today of or a tragedy of a family member suffering from this machla has no clue what the family may possibly be going thru. The world needs to understand and know that 40+ children a day are diagnosed with some sort of this machla. 40 families which calculates to hundreds of people are affected permanently daily by sad news. To try to comprehend it think of the worst thing that has ever happened to you and times that by a million and it lasts every second of every day until 120.
The main reason I bring this up to bring to attention the fact that while everyone thinks of what can we do in light of today’s never ending tragedies. Every city has organizations that do chesed yet nearly every organization is under funded. 18 months ago we had no clue as to what these organizations mean or do yet the minute we needed them they were always all there. Nearly every meshulach that comes to your door has a driver yet we never question how much of our dollar is actually getting to the organization. But when it comes to our own local organizations we always say well they don’t use every dollar appropriately or they have a main donor or their volunteers don’t dress tzniusdik or that organization is for a different crowd. WAKE UP and realize that there are these unreal organizations that’s chasadim know no boundaries and have done so much for us. There is food always as much as we want. There is yidish blood whenever we need. There are bills being paid for. There are flights, hotels and arrangements being made. There are camps for special children. DRs that are impossible to get into are being accessed within a few hours. Children are entertained by groups, babysitters volunteer, housing close to hospitals are arranged. The chesed is unreal yet so under rated.
So to everyone that asks what can we do in face of today’s nightmare tragedy that I hope no one forgets. Give tzedaka. Give to a local organization as a “insurance” that beezrat hashem you will never use and that hopefully we will never need again. If you can’t give $ then volunteer. Volunteer to donate blood, to drive someone to a DR, to make a meal for a needy family, to deliver food, visit someone that no one else cares to visit, donate your time at a organization function.
Stop judging what someone else is doing and making hakpados and frunkeiten on the silliest things that mean nothing to gd or anyone. Letters to the 3 kedoshim online thru your facebook or social media isn’t getting to them. Your hash tags are all useless. Its time for the world to be doing a lot more chesed and helping others in any shape or form. ה׳ עוז לעמו יתן, ה יברך את עמו בשלום!
