{"id":98841,"date":"2022-11-20T04:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98841"},"modified":"2022-11-20T04:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:06:30","slug":"struck-speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/struck-speechless\/","title":{"rendered":"Struck Speechless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Struck Speechless<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was receiving people at the Zer home in Bnei Brak, a couple came in with their four-year-old son. One day, without warning, this boy had completely stopped talking. In spite of their visits to the top specialists, the boy remained mute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you perhaps purchase a new apartment recently?\u201d I asked the father.<\/p>\n<p>To say the man was thunderstruck would be an understatement. \u201cHow does the Rav know about our new apartment? He never met us before; we heard about him only now, when we needed advice for our son. Does the Rav have ESP?\u201d These were the thoughts running through his mind.<\/p>\n<p>He confessed that he had recently bought a new apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you purchase a new car, as well?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time, the man was too stunned to speak, and merely nodded in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>I then turned to the couple with my diagnosis. Since they had purchased both a new apartment as well as a new car in a very short time span, their son was most likely suffering from the effects of <em>ayin hara. <\/em>This resulted from begrudging and envious onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately offered them various types of <em>tikkunim<\/em>, in merit of which Hashem would remove the <em>ayin hara<\/em> from them and their son would be completely cured.<\/p>\n<p><em>A number of days later, I returned to France. How happy I was to hear from the Zer family that, with Heavenly kindness, the young boy\u2019s speech had returned<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struck Speechless When I was receiving people at the Zer home in Bnei Brak, a couple came in with their four-year-old son. One day, without warning, this boy had completely stopped talking. In spite of their visits to the top specialists, the boy remained mute. \u201cDid you perhaps purchase a new apartment recently?\u201d I asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27868,"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":[1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-evil-eye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98841","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=98841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}