Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center – where both the value, as well as the length of life are held dear.
Mayanei HaYeshua ("Springs of Salvation") Medical Center is named after R. Yehoshua Frischwasser, who donated the initial funds to build the hospital.
(Frischwasser = "Ma'ayan" ("spring"), and Yehoshua = "yeshua" ("salvation")
Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center was founded in Bnei Brak in 1990 by Dr. Moshe Rothschild, as a public/private hospital, in order to provide advanced medical services in the spirit of Halacha (Jewish religious law).
For Dr. Rothschild, a man rich in public service, the Medical Center was his life's crowning achievement - a modern hospital meeting the highest standards of medicine and technology, and run, down to the smallest details, according to the most meticulous dictates of Halacha, which would provide a warm home for patients in many and varied fields.
At the time it was decided to establish the hospital, the population of Bnei Brak numbered some 90,000 people. In Switzerland - Dr. Rothschild's birthplace – there is one hospital for every city of twenty thousand people. As a resident and medical practitioner in Bnei Brak, he had long seen the necessity for a local hospital that would answer the particular needs of the religious inhabitants of the city. He realized that Bnei Brak deserved a hospital that would provide for its medical needs, without compromising the spiritual level of the environment distinctive to it. By making such an option available to the population, they would be spared the necessity of travelling out of the city, and many lives could be saved. In this case also, "necessity was the mother of invention."
Once the Torah leaders of that generation - the Steipler Gaon, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach, and the Baba Sali, ztz"l - decided that a hospital should be built in Bnei Brak, Dr. Rothschild made a career change, to become a "certified schnorrer".
"I never thought I would become a schnorrer when I grew up, but life often surpasses all imagination".
He scraped the pennies together until he realized his dream of establishing the hospital.
"People murmured behind my back: Dr. Rothschild has gone crazy." And indeed, he was crazy about the idea. After making a ten-percent down payment on an orchard for sale not far from his house, he received a letter a few days later from the Mayor of the city, saying: "If you are thinking of building a hospital in Bnei Brak, you are throwing your money away".
The lawyer also tried to dissuade him. He told him that there was a Jew from France who wanted to buy the plot in order to build a swimming pool – which seemed a much more practical investment - but Dr. Rothschild would not be swayed from his resolve.
The foundation stone for the hospital was laid in the presence of Gedolei Yisrael.
Dr. Rothschild once said that many Gedolei Yisrael supported and encouraged him. "The Tzaddik Rabbi Segal of Manchester ztz"l told me that if he had the strength, he would call every expectant mother in the world to come and have her baby at Mayanei HaYeshua . The importance of giving birth in a respectful place cannot be overestimated. In Mayanei HaYeshua, the baby's first breath is taken in holiness and purity, and I have no doubt that this atmosphere will influence the baby for the rest of its life. There is no hospital in the world more pure, and all the children born here enter the world in holiness and purity."
Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center – Professionals with soul!
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