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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Very cool Chaim…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OAGDU [mailto:oagdu-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chaim B. Segal via OAGDU<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 25, 2017 5:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> seeing-eye@googlegroups.com; nagdu@nfb.org; oagdu@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Chaim B. Segal<br><b>Subject:</b> [Oagdu] Article Featuring myself and my brother<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sorry if you get this twice. I just discovered that I sent this the first time from an account which I am not subscribed to these lists on.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wish the editor had not used the term “visual Impairment”, but had no idea she would do that. Nevertheless, the main points are in there that I was striving for.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Dayton Jewish Observer The Dayton Jewish Observer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://daytonjewishobserver.org/">http://daytonjewishobserver.org/</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Navigating Judaism to find independence<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2017-06-22<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>//June 22, 2017<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://daytonjewishobserver.org/2017/06/navigating-judaism-to-find-independence/">http://daytonjewishobserver.org/2017/06/navigating-judaism-to-find-independence/</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>//0 <#> // 92 // 0 <#vw-post-shares-dialog> //<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F">http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>//<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Navigating+Judaism+to+find+independence%20-%20http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F">http://twitter.com/home?status=Navigating+Judaism+to+find+independence%20-%20http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>//<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F&media=http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MosheandChaim.jpg&description=Navigating+Judaism+to+find+independence">http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F&media=http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MosheandChaim.jpg&description=Navigating+Judaism+to+find+independence</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>//<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F">http://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdaytonjewishobserver.org%2F2017%2F06%2Fnavigating-judaism-to-find-independence%2F</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe Segal (L) with Orion, and Chaim Segal with Yahtzee. Photo:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marshall Weiss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MosheandChaim.jpg">http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MosheandChaim.jpg</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe Segal (L) with Orion, and Chaim Segal with Yahtzee. Photo:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marshall Weiss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*By Martha Moody Jacobs, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe and Chaim Segal, brothers with visual impairments often spotted in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>the Kettering-Oakwood area, have celebrated milestones over the past few<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>months. Moshe was recently paired with his first guide dog, Orion; and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim published the first volume of his planned five-volume memoir, The<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sayzeh Song. The two milestones encapsulate the unique relationship<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>between each brother and his Jewish upbringing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I met with Moshe and Chaim at Sinclair Community College, where Chaim<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>works at a call center helping inbound students. We sat around a table,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>with Orion, and Chaim’s guide dog, Yahtzee (Chaim has had a guide dog<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>for years), resting at their feet. Moshe and Chaim aren’t totally blind;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>each can distinguish some light and dark.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The brothers grew up in an Orthodox home in Dayton, and attended the now<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>defunct Congregation Shomrei Emunah/Young Israel of Dayton with their<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>parents and two sighted brothers. Keeping mitzvot (commandments) remains<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>important to them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe, 48, regularly attends prayer minyans for yahrzeits and shivas.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim, 46, dons tefillin every morning, and has delivered kosher food to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sick friends. Both sing and play keyboards — they were members of the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Beth Abraham Synagogue Youth Chorale — and have provided music at<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>simchas. They walk to Shabbat services at Chabad in Oakwood each Saturday.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe Segal recently acquired his first guide dog, Orion. Photo:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marshall Weiss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Moshe.jpg">http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Moshe.jpg</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe Segal recently acquired his first guide dog, Orion. Photo:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marshall Weiss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe’s decision to acquire a guide dog was precipitated by a recent<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rabbinic ruling that his use of a white cane on Shabbat was forbidden<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>without an eruv.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>An eruv is a ritual enclosure, often marked by wires, that allows Jews<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>to carry certain objects outside their homes on Shabbat, in accordance<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>with halachah (Jewish law).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Oakwood area doesn’t have an eruv, and Moshe’s rabbinic authority,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rabbi Dovid Feinstein of New York, said it would violate halachah for<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe to continue carrying a cane on Shabbat. In order to go to services<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>independently, Moshe needed a guide dog.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“At a very early age,” Moshe explains, “I decided that I believe in the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>things I was taught by my religious teachers, including that God expects<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>us to do all these things.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Orion has been taught to lead Moshe around obstacles and traffic. Moshe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spent three weeks training with Orion at The Seeing Eye, a philanthropic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>organization in Morristown, N.J. The Seeing Eye breeds, raises and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>trains puppies to become guide dogs for those with visual impairments.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It provides clients with guide dogs and training at prices within their<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>reach.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is Orion’s training in “intelligent disobedience,” Moshe notes with<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>no trace of irony, that helps keep him safe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>While Moshe derives satisfaction from following halachah, Chaim’s<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>relationship to Orthodox Jewish practice is more ambiguous. Chaim has a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“rather liberal political viewpoint” and has problems with “certain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>aspects of how men’s and women’s roles are viewed within Orthodoxy.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I kept thinking that when I got older I would understand things<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>better,” Chaim says. “Originally, what kept me going was the fear that<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>if I forsook the commandments, I would place the entire nation (the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jewish people) in mortal danger. For me, this is a very complicated<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>subject.” And one that his memoir, The Sayzeh Song, explores.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim’s memoir presents a childhood filled with confusion and isolation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The title, The Sayzeh Song, comes from Chaim’s misunderstanding of the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>chorus of the Hall and Oates song, Say It Isn’t So. Chaim heard the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>words “Say it!” as a weird voice calling out an incomprehensible<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Sayzeh!” on a “frightening-sounding chord.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Only later did he learn the real, more positive meaning of the phrase.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In a similar vein, Chaim recounts several stories in his memoir of his<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>father’s harshness and impatience.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“He had a blind mother, so maybe…” Moshe starts, trailing off.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In his book, Chaim also recounts his father’s own difficult childhood<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(there was “absolutely no room for objection” in his father’s childhood<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>home) and thanks his father, a psychologist who died in 2004, for<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“teaching me to be an ethically moral person.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Their mother, who now lives in a senior-care facility, promoted her<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sons’ learning and self-reliance. The brothers started reading Braille<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>at age 5.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe was educated through high school at Hillel Academy, and, after a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rocky start in public school, Chaim graduated from Colonel White High<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Both brothers attended college and, for a time, Moshe studied to be a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rabbi. Now, the men have the latest electronic devices that let them<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>read, type, and transcribe in Braille.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Although they live near each other, the brothers have separate dwellings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and lead separate lives. They take turns hosting Shabbat dinners.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>They’re proud of their independence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe feels as if he is “losing credit” when people jump in to give him<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>help he doesn’t need. “We’re not a tzedakah box,” he says of himself and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moshe, who used to work at a call center, is frustrated that he isn’t<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>employed now. He cites employers’ irrational fears about hiring a blind<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>person, and notes that the highest form of tzedakah (righteous giving)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>is giving someone a job.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>He admits that an Orthodox life with time off for Shabbat and Jewish<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>holidays can lead to scheduling issues in the workplace. His dream job<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>would be with computers. Chaim notes eagerly that his brother has an<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>uncanny ability to solve computer problems and get users out of serious<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>jams.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Each brother is married to a woman he appreciates as a blessing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marriage is not a given in the blind community, and, as Chaim notes, the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Orthodox community offers limited options for blind people to make the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>social connections needed for marriage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim Segal, shown here with his guide dog, Yahtzee, has completed the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>first volume of his memoir. Photo: Marshall Weiss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Chaim.jpg">http://daytonjewishobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Chaim.jpg</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim Segal, shown here with his guide dog, Yahtzee, has completed the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>first volume of his memoir. Photo: Marshall Weiss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim’s experience in the Orthodox matchmaking world was filled with<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>disappointments; he came to believe that his blindness made him unmatchable.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In 2004 at Chabad, Moshe married Hadar, a Jew by choice who is also<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>visually impaired; he met her through mutual friends.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim, encouraged by Moshe and especially Hadar to “go out of his way”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>to date a blind woman, joined a Harry Potter chat room on a voicemail<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>system for the blind.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There, he met “somebody very special,” the woman living in Florida who<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>would become his wife. Hava, legally Brooke, is not Jewish, although she<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>was intrigued by the faith and had actually prayed for God to send her a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>man named Chaim.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Over time, Chaim’s mother accepted Hava, realizing that Hava had no<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>desire to change Chaim’s level of religious observance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In 2009, Chaim and Hava were married by Reform Rabbi David Burstein,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>then with Temple Beth Or. The marriage is a happy one, although Chaim<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>notes that many in his Orthodox world refuse to call his wife Hava,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“feeling that she has no right to a Hebrew name until she converts, if<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>she ever does.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Despite these challenges to his marriage, Chaim continues to attend<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Orthodox services and dons his tefillin daily. Because guide dogs are<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>unusual in Orthodox synagogues, he and Moshe express their thanks that<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chabad’s Rabbi Nochum Mangel has set aside an area for them to sit with<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>their dogs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Orthodox Jews, Chaim says, tend to have more of a fear of dogs than the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>general population. And because they have little contact with dogs as<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pets, that fear can sometimes manifest itself when guide dogs are in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>their presence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The antidote, he says, is to educate people more about the needs of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>those with disabilities. Not only are guide dogs invaluable helpers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim says they provide their owners with comfort and love in times of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>loneliness.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chaim continues to work on his memoir and dream big — an activity, he<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>says, that blind people are not often encouraged to do — about “blind<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Orthodox conventions and Shabbatons.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I ask Chaim what keeps him going as an Orthodox Jew, he responds<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>with a question for me as a Reform Jew: “When so many basic tenets of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Judaism, i.e. observance of kashrut and Shabbos, are withheld, how does<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>a movement keep its strength?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To read the 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