Last week, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg and Dr. Abed Halaila held an unexpected and moving joint press conference. A year ago, Ginsburg, who is closely associated with Chabad underwent a kidney transplant at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital. Other medical centers had declined to operate on him due to his advanced age. Still, Halaila, head of Hadassah Ein Kerem’s transplant unit, reviewed the file of the 80-year-old rabbi and agreed to perform the transplant.
With everyone present, the rabbi delivered a brief teaching on the meaning of kidneys in Jewish thought. Halaila sat beside him, and when the rabbi called him a “righteous gentile,” he patted his hand.
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