The Shalva story: an example of how Hashem assigns missions to people
One of my great joys in writing a regular column is the ability to share things that move or excite me — people, ideas, books. I’m an enthusiast by nature, and one’s enthusiasms are enhanced by being experienced with others.
I won’t guarantee that Rabbi Kalman Samuels’s Dreams Never Dreamed will be every person’s favorite book ever. But I would be genuinely surprised to hear from anyone who was not inspired and uplifted by it.
The story begins with a tragedy. Yossi, the second child of Kalman and his wife Malki, was left blind, as well as extremely hyperactive, by a contaminated whooping cough vaccine when he was just short of a year old. He would subsequently lose his hearing as well.
Yossi was one of at least 13 Israeli children to suffer severe neurological damage from the same contaminated DPT vaccine. By the time Yossi received his shot, the Israeli health authorities had already known for five months that the vaccine batch used on him was dangerously flawed.
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