{"id":98105,"date":"2022-11-19T23:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98105"},"modified":"2022-11-19T23:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:01:18","slug":"a-standing-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/a-standing-ovation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Standing Ovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Standing Ovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each year, as Lag Ba\u2019Omer, the <em>hilula <\/em>of the <em>Tanna<\/em>, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, draws near, I am reminded of a story from my childhood in Morocco, which ended on a happy note, in the merit of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.<\/p>\n<p>My eldest sister had sustained a head injury and, as a result, was unable to walk. Throughout the years, my mother, may she live long, would take her to visit various specialists who tried to heal her, but none was successful.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, on Lag Ba\u2019Omer, Father would prepare a <em>hilula<\/em> celebration in honor of the <em>Tanna<\/em>, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Numerous guests would be invited. They would sing liturgical praises and relate stories about the holy <em>Tanna.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One year, after all of the attendees had already left, my handicapped sister turned to my father and asked, in all innocence, \u201cFather, if Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai\u2019s power is so great, why doesn\u2019t he cure me? What will be when it is time for me to marry; which <em>chatan<\/em> will agree to a handicapped <em>kallah<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the family members heard her request, said with such simplicity and through such pain, they all burst into tears. After they calmed down, Father told her, \u201c<em>Im yirtzeh Hashem<\/em>, in the merit of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, you will stand on your own two feet and be able to walk again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That night, everyone slept peacefully. Suddenly, the air was pierced with chilling cries coming from my sister\u2019s room. The entire family awoke and, in panic, immediately made their way to her room. To our utter amazement, there stood our sister, walking on her own two feet, as Father had promised.<\/p>\n<p>We were overcome with emotion at the tremendous miracle we had witnessed. Only Father had the presence of mind to ask, \u201cWhy did you scream, my daughter? Tell us exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Excitedly, she related that in the middle of the night, she felt as though someone were massaging her legs until they emitted heat waves. Then she heard a voice whispering to her, \u201cStand up. You can walk.\u201d This is exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<p><em>Father said that it was certainly Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who had come to cure her of her infirmity, in the merit of her pure faith.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Standing Ovation Each year, as Lag Ba\u2019Omer, the hilula of the Tanna, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, draws near, I am reminded of a story from my childhood in Morocco, which ended on a happy note, in the merit of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. My eldest sister had sustained a head injury and, as a [&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":[1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hilula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98105","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=98105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}