Fired up with Emotion
During one of the days of the hilula of Rabbi Chaim Pinto, a fellow Jew told us the following account:
Even before he had made up his mind to join us, he had a most disturbing dream. He dreamed that he was in a burning room, with no means of escape. He was filled with terrible fear, when he suddenly heard a voice, “Do not be afraid. This is the fire lit in honor of the holy Rabbi Chaim Pinto, zy”a.” Upon awakening, he remembered his frightful dream and immediately decided to participate in the hilula celebration. But the story does not end there.
On Shabbat Eve of the tzaddik’s hilula, when this man was in Morocco, he once again was disturbed by a dream about a fire. He immediately awoke, to find that this was no dream. His entire room was full of smoke. He had left his hat on the bedside lamp and it had caught fire, going up in flames and causing damage to many of his possessions.
The man escaped just in time. He understood that the tzaddik had taken the bother, so to speak, of saving him from certain death in the merit of the pains he had taken to participate in his hilula.
