Divorced from Distress
When I was in New York to encourage the community there, a woman came to me, crying that her recalcitrant husband had refused to give her a get for the past twelve years. She was still young and wanted to sever all connections with him so that she could move on with her life and rebuild it. But she was chained to her husband as long as he refused to give her a divorce. I was very pained by her story and suggested she light a candle in memory of Rabbi Chaim Pinto, asking that he intervene on her behalf on High.
The woman did as I recommended, and the very next day, she informed me of her salvation. Without prior notice, her husband arrived at her house and gave her a kosher Jewish divorce. The judges of the Beit Din, who were involved in this case, were also stunned at this turn of events, not understanding what pushed the man to finally make this move.
But I knew it was the merit of the tzaddik that activated this woman’s deliverance, saving her from her sorry situation.
