Mitzvah Observance – The Cure-all
Hashem, in His great wisdom, commanded us to keep the laws of family purity in order to maintain our Jewish homes. From time immemorial, Jewish women have ensured to immerse in a kosher mikveh, and have thus experienced salvation.
I knew couples in Mexico who did not merit having children. Some of them were stricken with strange illnesses. When the women undertook to observe the laws of taharat hamishpachah, they were rescued from suffering.
A woman suffered from a tumor in her head. The growth was in a sensitive spot and affected her sight. It became life-threatening. But when she accepted upon herself the mitzvah of taharat hamishpachah, the tumor simply disappeared.
A similar incident happened to a woman who lived in Paris. She, too, suffered from a cancerous growth. When she asked for my blessing, I instructed her to observe taharat hamishpachah. In this merit, I told her, she would recover.
“What is the connection between my illness and family purity?” she demanded.
“If the doctor recommended antibiotics, would you agree to take them?”
“Certainly!” she replied, without hesitation.
“So this is the antibiotics I am offering you. Take it or leave it.”
The woman did as I instructed, and her cancer was a thing of the past.
She came to inform me of her miraculous deliverance. Gratified to hear the good news, I told her, “Your miraculous recovery proves that Hashem’s cures are much more effective than those of any doctor. Hashem’s cures are the mitzvot, which are remedies for living.”
Hashem often brings an illness upon a person which is beyond the scope of doctors to cure. The person has no recourse but to ask the tzaddik for his advice. The tzaddik, who is Hashem’s messenger, guides him along the road to life and goodness. The measures he instructs him to take in mitzvah observance are Hashem’s tried and true prescriptions for remedy.
