Powerful.
Via Daily Caller:
The rabbi who interfered in the shooting at Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, last week applauded President Trump Thursday during a White House event marking the National Day of Prayer.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose finger was blown off as he attempted to stop the man who opened fire at the synagogue last Saturday, said the president was the first person to help him begin healing after the horrific event.
“You heal people in their worst of times, and I’m so grateful for that,” Goldstein said after Trump invited him to say a few words at the podium.
“I faced evil and the worst darkness of all time right in our own house of worship — right at Chabad Poway,” he said. “I faced him, and I had to make a decision. Do I run and hide? Or do I stand tall and fight and protect all those that are there? We cannot control what others do, but we can control how we react.”
“It was that moment that I made a decision, no matter what happens to me, I am going to save as many people as possible,” he added. “I should have been dead by now, based on the rule of statistics. I was in the line of fire, bullets flying all the way. My fingers got blown off but I did not stop.”
Goldstein said he hopes the shooting will result in public school’s bringing back a moment of silence “so that children from early childhood on could recognize that there is more good to the world, that they are valuable, that there is accountability and every human being is created in God’s image.”