Does not man have hard service on earth?
Job 7:1
On May 16, 1990, a reckless driver in a speeding truck struck a minibus near Jerusalem. There were 21 passengers on board the bus - 18 Hasidic (Orthodox) Jews, two American Jews, and an Israeli Arab. The bus driver, an Israeli Jew, died on impact. The others suffered various injuries; Joshua Prager, a 19-year-old from New York who was sitting in the back of the bus, was flown home via medical transport, paralyzed from a broken neck, his breathing accomplished through a respirator.
Had he not been in that place, at that time, Mr. Prager would have gotten a haircut on that bright spring day, taken up baseball in college, and moved steadily forward toward his dream of being a medical doctor. Instead, the right side of his body slowly came back to life; his left side, however, was not able to accomplish the same journey. He was and is a hemiplelgic (one who has partial or total paralysis on only one side of the body).
Twenty-two years after the accident, when he was 40, Joshua Prager returned to Israel seeking answers to a million questions regarding the crash and its place in his life. He wondered how the lives of the other twenty survivors had been affected by the circumstances of that May morning. When he stepped off the plane in Jerusalem, his first order of business was to find them. ~to be continued
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