{"id":98521,"date":"2022-11-20T01:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98521"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:51:47","slug":"forewarned-is-forearmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/forewarned-is-forearmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Forewarned Is Forearmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forewarned Is Forearmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An elderly Jew once came to me with his married daughter. He asked for a blessing in a specific area. During the course of the conversation, I asked the woman if she observed the laws of <em>taharat hamishpachah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to her negative reply, I rebuked her, \u201cA woman who keeps the laws of family purity is protected from cancer of the womb. Even medical experts admit to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the Rav mentioning this? Is your purpose to scare me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When she left my office, she took a quick survey of the women waiting outside my door. \u201cDoes the Rav scare all of his petitioners in this way?\u201d she queried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rav always encourages observance of <em>taharat hamishpachah<\/em>,\u201d they answered. \u201cBut he never talks about cancer of the womb. Why should he mention it unnecessarily?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing that she had been singled out with this warning, the woman became even more afraid than before. She realized that the Rav\u2019s words contained a message especially for her.<\/p>\n<p>She immediately had tests done. To her utter shock, the doctors found the beginning of a growth in her womb.<\/p>\n<p><em>Needless to say, this woman undertook to keep the halachot of taharat hamishpachah in every detail. Her growth disappeared. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forewarned Is Forearmed An elderly Jew once came to me with his married daughter. He asked for a blessing in a specific area. During the course of the conversation, I asked the woman if she observed the laws of taharat hamishpachah. In response to her negative reply, I rebuked her, \u201cA woman who keeps the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24317,"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":[1073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-purity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98521","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=98521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}