Esther jungreis biography

As the visiting speaker and her aide sped toward the female penitentiary in Ramle, Israel, she still had not formulated a speech with which to address the Jewish inmates.

Esther jungreis biography

The delay was born from Esther Jungreis’s concern that her remarks to the prisoners might be misinterpreted as condescending or judgmental.

The prisoners already knew they had erred and she wasn’t going there to remind them.

Jungreis hoped that God would inspire her as He has done a thousand times before with a meaningful message—one that would motivate these young women to start a new life. But even as she rang the bell on the prison gate, she still had not decided on her speech.

Suddenly, however, in their haste, Jungreis’s aide took a breathtaking fall that left all the spectators, including the prisoners, aghast.

Never in the 20 years they had worked together had the aide lost her footing so. After the shock, the woman lifted herself up, brushed herself off, and was ready to keep on going.