{"id":97877,"date":"2022-11-19T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=97877"},"modified":"2022-11-19T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:53:11","slug":"firm-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/firm-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Firm Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman from France suffered for a long time from severe pains throughout her body. She called me up, asking that I bless her with a speedy recovery. I suggested that she be examined by a doctor, but she replied that she didn\u2019t have money to pay his fees. I offered to help with payment, but she was adamant in her refusal to see a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRabbi David, I am not interested in doctors or their fees. All I ask is your <em>berachah<\/em>, in the merit of your holy fathers, to grant me a complete recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I saw her perfect faith, I was sure that a blessing in the merit of my forefathers would surely be effective. If she preferred a blessing over medical treatment, her faith was certainly staunch.<\/p>\n<p>I blessed her with all my heart and prayed for her recovery. <em>Baruch Hashem<\/em>, her pains subsided and finally left completely, without the intervention of a doctor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hashem wants our perfect faith. When we are completely reliant upon Him, the gates of Heaven are open to receive our prayers and supplications.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm Faith A woman from France suffered for a long time from severe pains throughout her body. She called me up, asking that I bless her with a speedy recovery. I suggested that she be examined by a doctor, but she replied that she didn\u2019t have money to pay his fees. I offered to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}