GREAT READS → FOREVER GRATEFUL Issue 888 · December 1, 2021

From the Depths 

I feel a responsibility to share my story, recounting how my young campers saved my life

From the Depths 

I’m okay, I’m okay,” I said — and an unfamiliar voice responded, “No, you’re not”

Ihad just finished davening at Chabad of the Five Towns in New York, where I lived, before Shavuos 2001, when fellow mispallel Dr. William Muller approached me.

“I have a summer job for you,” he said.

It was in Columbia, South Carolina, of all places. Dr. Muller explained that several frum families in the area — Chabad shluchim, one of whom is his son, and some other locals and visitors — needed someone to run a program in June between school and sleepaway camp.

“You’ll have your own car, your own apartment, and access to a private pool,” he said — all things that appeal to a 19-year-old.

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