Dramatic Improvment in Wounded Bochur’s Condition

Levi Rosenblat, the 22-year-old rabbinical student that was stabbed and critically injured early Tuesday morning in 770 Eastern Parkway, has awakened, is conscious and alert and has spoke with his parents late last night.

“Late last night Levi has woken up from the sedation he was put under, he is conscious and alert and is recalled details that have occurred up until the incident” a source told CrownHeights.info from Bellevue Hospital, where Rosenblat is currently being treated.

He was sedated in Kings County Hospital when doctors discovered internal bleeding and a fracture in his skull that was causing pressure on his brain. The source of the bleeding was a vascular laceration, and the procedure to repair this wound Kings County does not specialize in.

Rosenblat was transported by ambulance and NYPD escort to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan where the procedure was successfully completed Tuesday afternoon. All that was left for doctors is to wait for Rosenbalt to wake up, which he boruch hashem did late last night.

“He appears to be doing well, but he is not out of the wood yet. We still don’t know if there is any long term damage” the source added, saying that people are asked to continue saying Tehillim for Levi Yitzchok ben Raizel‘s complete and speedy recovery.

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5 Comments

  • L. A.

    It is a great credit to this bochur, sheyichyeh, that he had the strength and decency to drag himself out of the shul once he realized his condition was serious… for, if it had become ultimately serious, ch”v, the kohanim who were in the shul learning and davening, most likely, would have been m’tameh (in a more immediate way than we are all m’tameh in this generation). It’s just one example of the fine quality of the bochurim of the kvutzah whom we are honored to host, here in Crown Heights.