Over the past few years, these seven LifeLines narrators have shared their memorable stories of struggle and growth, adversity and triumph. Where are they now?
Issue: 406
Story Name: At Your Door
The Challenge: With my husband totally broken by his debts how would we live?
Recap// My husband lost his job and then fell into serious debt after a failed business venture. With 13 children to marry off and huge debts to repay we desperately needed money — but my husband was too broken to work or even go around collecting tzedakah. Someone had to rescue my family so I picked myself up and started knocking at people’s doors for donations each night after I finished work.
Where are they now?
The Update//
Idon’t speak or read English. But I’ve knocked on the door of countless frum families in Yerushalayim and Bnei Brak, including that of C. Saphir, who asked me if I’d be willing to share my story. Since my story is already well known to so many strangers — along with the curse of poverty comes the loss of much privacy and personal dignity — I agreed.
I was pleasantly surprised — shocked, actually — when, immediately after the story’s publication, I received a $5,000 donation from an anonymous Mishpacha reader in chutz la’Aretz who was moved by the story. Mi k’amcha Yisrael.
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