{"id":97920,"date":"2022-11-19T21:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=97920"},"modified":"2022-11-19T21:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:16:01","slug":"a-blessed-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/a-blessed-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blessed Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Blessed Delay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avigail Fortuna, daughter of Rosa Caldron, was a small girl of six in the year 1994. One day, she began hemorrhaging dangerously.<\/p>\n<p>Her doctors could not find the source of the bleeding. They tried to cure her in conventional and unconventional methods, but nothing helped.<\/p>\n<p>The girl suffered for a long period with no cure in sight. Finally, the doctors discovered that her liver had grown to frightening proportions and was barely functioning. They suspected that the girl was suffering from a growth on the liver and therefore decided to take a biopsy. This procedure is done in a large hospital in Boston, under anesthesia.<\/p>\n<p>The girl underwent all of the necessary tests before this procedure could be done. Her parents heard that I had arrived in their city, and they took it as a sign that they should wait for my arrival, so that I might bless their daughter before her flight to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors were strongly opposed to this delay. They informed the parents that it was completely their responsibility. Their daughter was very sick, and every day was critical. But her parents\u2019 hearts swelled with faith in the Sages and their blessings. They stubbornly awaited my arrival, so that I might bless their daughter in the merit of my fathers\u2019 <em>zechuyot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As soon as I arrived in town, the parents brought their young daughter to me. They spent quite a while with me. I blessed the girl with a complete recovery and told the parents to do additional testing. I was of the opinion that the trip to Boston was superfluous. There was no need to do the biopsy, I felt. <em>B\u2019ezrat Hashem<\/em>, her condition would improve.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the girl came in for testing. The results were astounding. There was no growth whatsoever, and her liver began functioning once more in a normal manner. This was in direct contrast to the tests taken only two weeks earlier, when the results had showed no liver function at all.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard the good news from the emotional parents, I blessed them that the girl should have a complete recovery from the bleeding, as well, and they should merit announcing good news.<\/p>\n<p><em>The merit of my forefathers, in which this girl\u2019s parents placed their hope, stood in their defense, saving their daughter from certain death. She was eventually completely cured.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Blessed Delay Avigail Fortuna, daughter of Rosa Caldron, was a small girl of six in the year 1994. One day, she began hemorrhaging dangerously. Her doctors could not find the source of the bleeding. They tried to cure her in conventional and unconventional methods, but nothing helped. The girl suffered for a long period [&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":[1047],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-in-tzaddikim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97920","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=97920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}