{"id":98304,"date":"2022-11-20T00:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98304"},"modified":"2022-11-20T00:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:24:45","slug":"awakened-by-a-mitzvah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/awakened-by-a-mitzvah\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakened by a Mitzvah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Awakened by a Mitzvah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A young man once volunteered to arrange a <em>hilula<\/em> celebration in honor of the tzaddik, Rabbi Meir Ba\u2019al Haness, zy\u201da. He did this altruistically, with no ulterior motives whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when he went around inviting people, a mentally ill man shot him and nearly killed him. He was rushed to the hospital, fighting for his life, where he was pronounced in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>His mother approached me and said, \u201cHonored Rav, my son was injured while he was involved in a mitzvah of <em>chessed<\/em>, inviting people to the <em>hilula<\/em> of the tzaddik, Rabbi Meir Ba\u2019al Haness, zy\u201da. How can Hashem let him die like this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I replied that certainly on High they recognized his virtues, since he sought only the benefit of his fellow Jews. I was sure that he would have a complete recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The young man spent three months in a coma in the hospital. Then, in a most dramatic, miraculous way, he suddenly opened his eyes. His condition gradually improved until he was completely cured.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes, it is sufficient to study ordinary, day-to-day occurrences to realize that the merit of a mitzvah protects its protagonist. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awakened by a Mitzvah A young man once volunteered to arrange a hilula celebration in honor of the tzaddik, Rabbi Meir Ba\u2019al Haness, zy\u201da. He did this altruistically, with no ulterior motives whatsoever. Unfortunately, when he went around inviting people, a mentally ill man shot him and nearly killed him. He was rushed to the [&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":[1065],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-merit-of-mitzvot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98304","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=98304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}