Rabbi gives aid to injured Israeli hiker on Yom Kippur
On the night of Yom Kippur, the Chabad emissary in Nepal, Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, rushes to the aid of a man who was seriously injured during a trek with his son.
Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, the Chabad emissary in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, set off on the night of Yom Kippur to aid an Israeli hiker who was seriously injured during a hike in Namche Bazaar, a village serving as a stop-off point for hikers and climbers heading for Mount Everest.
The hiker, an Israeli in his 50s, was walking with his son in an organized group when he slipped and fell, breaking his hand and both his legs and started bleeding profusely.
Lifshitz contacted Israeli doctors who were in the village and asked them to take care of the injured hiker at a nearby guest house, where they somewhat managed to stabilize his condition.
When the weather stabilized, Rabbi Lifshitz found a local rescue team, which, together with the rescue center of MAGNUS International Search & Rescue, evacuated the injured man on a stretcher and then by helicopter to Kathmandu.
The man will undergo surgery on Monday.
"Pikuach nefesh (the Jewish principle of preservation of human life) takes precedence over Shabbat and holidays," Lifshitz said after the rescue.
