Thursday June 25, 2015

Thirty years ago, when I started a career as a psychic reader, synchronicity brought a wonderful women named Claire Halberstam into my life. Though part of a local Orthodox Jewish community not far from me in Brooklyn, NY, Claire was interested in all things metaphysical. She introduced me to the "psychic fairs" through which I made many wonderful connections. Later her daughter Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum came from a reading about following her dreams to become a poet and author, which I encouraged. Both women wanted to make a difference - Claire did - Yitta still does. The years passed ... Today while searching for articles for Crystalinks Ezine, I found this story ...

Astounding Coincidences That Saved Lives During the Holocaust - Fate?   Epoch Times - June 23, 2015
At precisely the moment of life or death for some prisoners during WWII, a strange coincidence directed their fate toward life. Amazing coincidences continued after the Holocaust in the strangely serendipitous ways some friends and family found each other again. Laizer Halberstam, a 5-year-old Jewish boy in a Polish village, violated an unspoken rule by befriending a non-Jewish boy. Halberstam taught his friend a Jewish prayer, and his friend taught him a Christian prayer. When Halberstam was 15 years old, he was fleeing the Nazis under a Christian alias. A soldier who examined his papers said to him, "You say you are a good Christian? Well then, why don't you recite a Christian prayer for me now, one that all good Christians should know by heart?" The soldier chose a prayer for Halberstam to recite, and luckily it was the one Halberstam knew. He still remembered after 10 years, and it saved him.