I ask whether it was hard to work with the children at first.
“Not at all, Savta. You can’t help but love them. You just want to give them all that you can.”
Among her many other qualities Elisheva is an accomplished violinist, and she recently called me with wonderful news. She will be coming to New York with some of the Shalva children who are in the band to entertain at the Shalva dinner on March 8.
I will be in the audience cheering them on and getting nachas from Elisheva in more ways than one. And perhaps the parents of the children in the band will feel an even greater nachas than mine, because it was probably something they never thought they could have.
Kalman Samuels is living proof that when a person dreams big about helping others, those dreams really can come true.
