And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, ‘We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel.’" Ruth 4:11   On a cold winter evening in a small schoolroom in Boston during the late nineteenth century, a young girl named Helen sat in complete darkness and isolation. Locked behind the barriers of blindness and deafness, prone to violent frustration because she could not communicate with t...