Bnos Menachem Student On Mivtzoim Helps A Woman In Pain

by CrownHeights.info

Going out on Mivtzoim can help a Jewish person connect with their roots, but sometimes it can do much more than that.

Jewish Activist Ezra Friedlander posted an email from a Jewish woman residing in Manhattan, telling over how a young girl from Bnos Menachem found her at the right time this Chanukah, and helped her ease her pain.

The woman, who presently remains anonymous, had been in the elevator with a friend on her way up to the second floor of 133 East 54th Street in Manhattan. Having lost her husband last year, she had enlisted her friend to help clear out her husbands art gallery at that address. The work was painful, with the loss still raw in her heart. The raw emotions were made sharper by the fact that her deceased husband’s birthday was that day, and without children or family was feeling alone.

“I am a non-practicing Jew,” the woman wrote, “but was saying that I suddenly wished that I had a Menorah so I could light the candles in memory of my husband and feel I belonged to something.”

Suddenly, a “lovely young girl” on the elevator turned to the woman asking her if she was Jewish and would like a Menorah.

“I looked at her in shock and said yes and began to cry,” the woman wrote. “She handed me one to took [take] home later and read the directions on the box and have been lighting the candles for two days now!”

The woman explained how the lighting of the candles, even though it’s the first time she is doing it in her life, is making her feel so good.

In an attempt to say thank you to the girl, the woman reached out to the school, pointing out how shocked she was that the young girl noticed that she was in pain, and did something about it.