{"id":97908,"date":"2022-11-19T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=97908"},"modified":"2022-11-19T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:11:52","slug":"faithful-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/faithful-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Faithful Dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Merguy of Miami has a son who decided to move to Paris. He went to the French consulate in order to obtain a visa.<\/p>\n<p>Obtaining a visa is a quick process, taking no longer than a couple of days. But, for some inexplicable reason, this young man was met with all sorts of bureaucratic tape, which blocked his way in getting the visa. A friend advised him to visit a gentile fortune-teller, who would be able to help him out.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Mrs. Merguy approached me, telling me of her son\u2019s intentions to visit this gentile. She also admitted that, left with no other choice, she had decided to visit a gentile who writes amulets, in order to be blessed that her son should be finished with the paperwork quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonored Rav,\u201d she began, emotionally. \u201cLast night, something happened that made me decide not to go to the gentile amulet-writer, after all. Your grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Pinto, visited me in a dream. He ordered me to forbid my son from seeking fortune-tellers and amulet-writers, who draw their powers from the forces of impurity and witchcraft. Rather, my son should come to you, Rabbi David, for a blessing for success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWhen I awoke, I was terribly distressed. I hurried to call up my son and relate my dream. He followed my instruction and came to you. He received your blessing and, <em>Baruch Hashem<\/em>, everything worked out in the best way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>In the merit of Mrs. Merguy\u2019s unequivocal obedience to my grandfather\u2019s instruction to come to me for a blessing in the merit of my forefathers, the blessing was approved, and her son moved to Paris without further delays.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful Dreams Mrs. Merguy of Miami has a son who decided to move to Paris. He went to the French consulate in order to obtain a visa. Obtaining a visa is a quick process, taking no longer than a couple of days. But, for some inexplicable reason, this young man was met with all sorts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1047],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-in-tzaddikim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97908","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}