Absolute Miracle - The Story of Jeremy's Brush with Death- Ari Abramowitz: Land of Israel Fellowship

this Friday meaning just a couple days ago right before Shabbat I hopped over uh to Jeremy's house to do you know what all the time I just go there all the time I always find an excuse to go there he finds an excuse to talk to me until one of our wives get mad at us that we should be helping and doing more things and so my daughter dasos was playing with her best friend and role model Jeremy's youngest daughter Ken but I had to pull her away and leave because I knew that Shaya needed uh my help the the last few hours before Shabbat those are the most chaotic of the week you know and uh if there's Strife in a Jewish Home very often those are the hours when it shows up and so I sat down with my kids and they agreed to take a agreed to take a bath only after I read them a book so right as I was launching in my phone ranks and it was Eden you know Jeremy's 14-year-old daughter calling me and I picked up and she was screaming in sheer panic and Terror I didn't need to hear anything more than that I sprinted out of the house I pulled out my gun I chambered around I'm charging towards Jeremy's house thinking that they were being attacked and as I'm approaching the front door tahila came out looking way too relaxed for that to be happening so I realized that the the whatever crisis is happening must be happening somewhere else and I had a faint recollection that Jeremy said you know that they were taking out the horses for a ride which they often do before Shabbat so I screamed to tahil I said get in the car which you did she got in the car she said call the emergency number um I think at that point we could already hear Eden screams in the distance that's true and so uh so knowing that she was on her way I called the emergency numbers I told them to send out everything they had I just knew something very real was happening I still didn't definitively know what we were dealing with yet I ran back to the house grabbed my M16 the keys to the car and uh jumped in uh drove on the main road to the nearby Village and on the way there I Came Upon tahila and she was on her knees in front of Jeremy he was lying on the ground and appeared she was giving him some sort of chest compressions so what it appeared to me and I jumped out of the car and saw edin in hysterical tears of blood all over her shirts and uh I ran over lunged forward to see Jeremy and I'm not going to sanitize this for you you know I I thought he was dead his face was white his eyes were rolled back his head was on on the side was cut open and there was lots of blood and uh his eyes were uh fluttering I was slapping I started slapping him in the face trying to wake him up um and then he sort of came too and then gone and that was an unbelievable moment and the ambulance showed up shortly shortly thereafter it seemed like forever and then I took Eden away to get the other kids you know Tila ran out of the house panicked and they saw that they must have been panicking and not knowing what's going on so I was just trying to stay calm and collected and strong for his children although at the time you know the very foundations of my world were on fire and we got to the house and the kids had barricaded themselves in the safe room with all the doors locked and they were screaming their their brains at screaming and weeping and crying I couldn't get in any of the doors I was about to break through and then and then ended up getting in in a different way and pulled them out and um yeah it was it was it was a lot you know I I brought them into the house and I lied to their faces I don't like to ever lie but I felt like it was the right thing to do in that moment I told them I was like your Oba is gonna be okay even though in my heart he may be dead at the moment at the time that I'm saying this I said he may have a broken arm you know but we'll have to wait wait and see I thought that would calm them down but they Panic what a broken arm oh my God he have a broken arm anyways Eden was unbelievable the 14-year-old girl that was just there seeing what she thought was her father dying right before her um she was able to collect herself for the sake of her little siblings and the girl is 14 years old and she was so strong she was stronger than I was at that time it really felt like that I'll just never forget that you know and so I brought them to my house and then I high tailed it back over to see a team of doctors and Medics and First Responders and they were all crowded around him and I heard one of them say that the helicopter would be landing in 3 minutes and they called the most elite rescue team in the IDF called shes Tesa 669 apparently they they determined you know that every moment counts here and they needed to airlift him I mean the whole thing was so surreal and I was praying with all of my heart I mean all of my heart and the helicopter landed and they didn't know what they were Landing they set up a safe perimeter and the soldiers jumped out the doctors were grilling edin about what happened to know what they were dealing with she explained that uh her and Jeremy were on the two horses Jeremy was on Hector the big horse and the Rel atively new baby horse jumped in front of Hector the horse that Jeremy was on causing Hector to fly forward til is here in the room with me if I have any of this wrong shall I hopefully correct it but Hector flew forward and fell forward onto the side slamming Jeremy onto the rocks and uh falling on top of Jeremy and you know I'm just telling you by natural law he should act he he should he should be dead right now and it would it it would have been the worst Shabbat of my life and I was bracing for that had I not heard from tahila who flew in the in the helicopter with Jeremy to the hospital she called before Shabbat she said he's conscious she said say hi Ari and he said hi ar oh my god of course the minute I heard his voice I burst out in tears um anyways we we uh we spent about on the farm we didn't know what was going on with him what was going on with them you know Jeremy's parents and his kids and his brother and his nephew and and their guests all the guests that they were going to have have for Shabbat were at our table for the meals which was wonderful really really wonderful that we were able to be there for each other and with each other and it was a Shabbat filled with prayers and hope and uh and healing and a lot of Tears a lot a lot a lot of gratitude I tried to keep focusing on just how grateful I said this week is the week of parat kosim and every year I I'm pronouncing that this is the Jeremy G gel's life celebration and uh anyways unbelievably they released him from the hospital after Shabbat which I was quite distressed about because when I saw him it was clear to me that he should be in the hospital what do I know I don't know anything but it certainly felt to me that he should have been there for at least a few more days of observation um you know uh he's even better now but his memory is still spot he can barely walk and he has only moments here and there of being await but it was absolute Miracles anyways