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.