{"id":99092,"date":"2022-11-20T05:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99092"},"modified":"2022-11-20T05:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:32:50","slug":"the-long-arm-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/the-long-arm-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Arm of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Long Arm of Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was on a visit to Montreal, a man came to see me with his arm in a cast. He related that he had experienced a serious accident and his arm had been irreversibly injured. The doctors informed him that he had to have it amputated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebbi,\u201d he cried to me, \u201chow will I be able to live with only one arm?\u201d I was deeply pained by his plight and asked how I could help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonored Rav,\u201d he replied, determinedly, \u201cbless me that I merit complete healing. You are the grandson of the tzaddik, Rabbi Chaim Pinto, zy\u201da, about whom tremendous things are said. I have full faith that Hashem can do anything. In the merit of your blessing, as well as the merit of your forefathers, I will, <em>B\u2019ezrat Hashem<\/em>, experience the miracle of my arm being saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing the man\u2019s words of firm faith, I blessed him from the depths of my heart. I told him he should see Hashem\u2019s salvation in the rescue of his arm. I added that I hoped to see him on my next visit with two healthy arms.<\/p>\n<p>The next year found me in Montreal once again. I needed a pen and asked those near me if anyone had one. A man whipped a pen out of his pocket and offered it to me. When I stuck out my hand to take it, I noticed a big scar covering his hand. I asked the man what it was from. He told me that he was the one who had asked me to bless him that his arm return to normal.<\/p>\n<p><em>He related that in a most miraculous manner, his arm had healed. There was no need for an amputation. He now offered me his pen as a memento of this wonderful miracle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Arm of Faith When I was on a visit to Montreal, a man came to see me with his arm in a cast. He related that he had experienced a serious accident and his arm had been irreversibly injured. The doctors informed him that he had to have it amputated. \u201cRebbi,\u201d he cried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27945,"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":[1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99092","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=99092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}