Yesh Tikveh Army
Gives Hope
I Am Healthy And Strong
Stroke Survivor Asks For World Prayer
On New Year's Day, January 1, 2014
At the age of 61, bodybuilder Rich Walters
suffered a disabling stroke. Eight months later,
he plans to participate in the 14 mile Polar Dash
race in frigid Minneapolis, MN, with the goal of
bringing hope to other stroke victims. As he runs,
he will be listening to the song of prayer,
Yesh Tikvah (There is Hope) by Benny Friedman.
This prayer cries out to G-d who helps those in despair.
Rich is asking the whole world to join him in prayer
that day for those in despair. Rich is the founder of a
new organization called Yesh Tikveh Army - Gives Hope,
to help stroke and head injury survivors.
Please Spread the word!
My supporters were skeptical.
The naysayers, from amateur to medical professionals
told me not to do the Polar Dash.
Too risky.
This made me all the more determined,
confident and resolute.
I am going to cross that finish line!
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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