This is the story of Isaac Levy, 58 years old, of Stoke Newington, blinded and paralyzed in the World War, who recovered sight and movement when he had a vision of an angel while seated in his garden recently.
Hannah Levy, his daughter, said yesterday that the old man had a dream that another of his daughters who had died came to him in the guise of an angel. For more than three months Mr. Levy had been prostrate, unable to move a muscle in his body.
“One day I found him in the garden,” said the daughter, “when we were living in Stepney, shouting hysterically, ‘Rosie, Rosie, I have seen Rosie’.”
Hannah reported that her father flung away his crutches. His sight was restored, she said, and his strength returned. Moreover, “he became agile as an athlete.”
“He was jumping about in the garden and I thought he had gone mad, but he told me that the shock of seeing the vision of his child had restored his health. The doctors whom we called were puzzled. Our father became known as the miracle man of Stepney.”
Rosie, the child of the vision, died when she was fourteen and was a favorite.
The end of the story of Isaac Levy will be written at the Manor Park Jewish Cemetery on Sunday. He committed suicide a few days ago by drinking poison. He will be placed alongside the grave of his daughter according to his last wish.
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