New York, NY – The morning before Thanksgiving, Lisa Donath was waiting for the No. 1 train at 191st Street in Washington Heights when she was overcome by dizziness. She leaned against a pillar, and the next thing she knew, she was being dragged across the subway platform by what felt like many people at once. She thought she had been mugged.
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Ms. Donath, a 24-year-old drug abuse counselor who lives a block from the subway station, had fainted and fallen onto the tracks. Thirty seconds before the next train came careering into the station, she was lifted back up by a man who had lowered himself from the platform during the peak of the morning rush to retrieve her limp body. He left before she could get a good look at him.
Recalling only that he looked Hispanic, she considered the one Latino name among the four that the police gave her: Juan Gomez. She called every Juan Gomez listed in the New York telephone book but had no luck. [nytimes]
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Hi, My name is Ismael, I simply did what I had to do. I saved her life. The secound I heard a Yell and saw the body face down in the tracks I didn’t think what religion, ethnic background or even if it was a boy,girl,old, young etc…. I knew that a person was in trouble and I had to take action. I leaped in and pulled her out. Today Lisa is alive and well and I’m just happy to have been there to give her that 2nd chance.
PS. Wow that train was so close
“When a jew helps a goy its expected, but when a goy helps a yid its a nais!”
What an inflated sense of self! This is a good samaritan no matter how you look at it. THere are so many everyday in this city, black, white, and all religions. No need to put such a negative spin on such a heartwarming story. It is an education though to see how people think. Disappointing though it may be.
Wonderful girl from a wonderful family, not at all surprised that she called every one by that name to express hakaras hatov.
Anon. 7:14AM You are right on track. Also, you don’t have to be apologetic for having read [parts of] the “new testament”. I have read most of it. The main thread that runs through [and most aspects
of] it is, that WE, THE YIDDEN are no good. The [much maligned and] hated Pharisees (PRUSHIM) (which was a middle-of the-road party, politically) are enemy #1 . Even today, a very “Popular” Comedienne, Author &
Columnist showed her “Love” for The Jewish People by hoping to “Perfect” them. A more in-depth discussion [on this subject] is for another Forum.
to anonymous 7:14 AM
Yes the word Samaritan could be questioned as to what it means, but in cases like this when somebody says “Good Samaritan” it means as the definition is described in the dictionary “A person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble”,
so why even bring this up?
Anon 7:14 AM – There has actually been a ‘raging’ debate among scholars as to the identiy of the Sameritan and main-stream academia seems to move closer and further away at various times from identifying them as the Shomronim.
Very interesting reading, if you find boring to be interesting. Great can’t fall asleep reading.
i am grateful that a person, no matter their origin saved this woman
For the record, “Good Samaritan” is an anti-semitic term. In the new testament JC tells a parable about a starving man asking a pharisee (pirushi) for food. The man says sorry, I have to go to my daf yomi shiur. He then begs a passing sadduccee (Tzadoki) and the man says sorry, I’m running to a chumash shiur. he then ask a samaritan (shomronim) whom the Jews had been at war with for a few hundred years at the time and the samaritan feeds the man and saves his life. JC then proclaims that this dude will enter the gates of heaven and not the other two dudes. The purpose of the parable was to undermine the peoples trust in the Jewish leadership of rabbonim who were mostly pirushim and perhaps fee tzadokim. JC said your worst enemy is more likely to enter heaven than your Rabbi. This is the origin of the expression and the reason I don’t use it. Forgive me knowledge of the NH, but when you live in Florida and every second corner has a temple beth yeshua, you need to know because people ask. By the way compare this with the story of Nachum Ish Gamzu in Ta’anis. The Rabbis were indeed made of a different mettle.
a good samaritan
To the rescued (rescuee), the RESCUER of Hispanic Ancestry, in this case, was an ANGEL sent from Heaven. NOTHING FURTHER!
malochim come dressed in many ways…. this was NO DOUBT a malach.
OH, and BTW, where does it state that a malach can not be dressed as a hispanic???
1. She did indeed get hurt, badly as the article states.
2. The commenter who said the things about helping goyim is a moron. Manytimes the exact opposite of what the poster said is true. yesh vyesh. it is exceptional that someone would risk their own life in a potentially dangerous way to help another person as was the case in this story.
People don’t realize, The nais is also that she fell onto the tracks and didn’t get hurt either! Plus the nais that people happened to see her and rescue her in time. B”H
It was a Hispanic malach, mamish a nais! You know, when a jew helps a goy its expected, but when a goy helps a yid its a nais!
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Allow me to vomit please.
it was a woman, probably didn’t realize iz gevain a yid. nevertheless, it is nice that they helped
It was a Hispanic malach, mamish a nais! You know, when a jew helps a goy its expected, but when a goy helps a yid its a nais!
it seems from the article there were several strangers who helped her. BH there so many decent people out there
WOW! An angel from Heaven