Apr 17 2020 1:38 am

Within hours of receiving an urgent request for a respirator, Lakewood Bikur Cholim Director Rabbi Yehuda Kaszirer was on a chopper.

At approximately 7 PM on the first night of the Second Days of Yom Tov, Rabbi Kaszirer received an urgent request for a sophisticated respirator for a patient in New York.

Within minutes of learning that a nursing home in Albany was willing to donate one, Simcha Shain of Paraflight arranged for a chopper to fly Rabbi Kaszirer out there and bring it to the patient.

At about 8 PM he was in the air, and he arrived in Albany before 9 PM.

After a short drive, Rabbi Kaszirer arrived at the nursing home, picked it up, and was back in the air. Shortly after 10 PM he landed in Manhattan, where he met up with Boro Park Hatzolah – who had the respirator delivered to a local hospital.

Mi K’amcha Yisroel.