Once I was walking in the dark of night, and I saw a blind man walking with a torch in his hand. I asked him: my son, why the torch? He said to me:
As long as the torch is in my hand, people see me — and save me from the pits, the thorns and the brambles.
Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 24bAvukat Or was founded in 2004 by a group of parents of people living with a combination of disabilities: blindness, intellectual-developmental disability, physical disability and communication challenges. The organization runs a rehabilitative-therapeutic day center and a community housing network in Jerusalem.
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