{"id":99106,"date":"2022-11-20T05:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99106"},"modified":"2022-11-25T00:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:06:59","slug":"taking-to-heart-the-tzaddiks-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/taking-to-heart-the-tzaddiks-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking to Heart the Tzaddik\u2019s Blessing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taking to Heart the Tzaddik\u2019s Blessing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My dear disciple, Mr. Gabi Elbaz, was once approached by a man from Marseille who asked if he learned in the yeshiva of Rav Pinto. When my disciple replied in the affirmative, the man asked if he could share a story with him. This was his story:<\/p>\n<p>A number of years ago, I learned that Rav Pinto was in town, receiving people. As is traditional Jewish custom, I went over to receive a blessing from him. I waited in line for my turn. When I finally entered his room, the Rav lifted his hands and blessed me with health and Heavenly protection.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I was taken aback at his blessing. Health? Protection? I was a strapping young man, the picture of health, and living quite securely, thank you. But that very evening, everything became clear. As I was eating supper, I suddenly suffered a heart attack. In those moments, the Rav\u2019s blessing suddenly came back to me with crystal clarity. I reassured myself that <em>B\u2019ezrat Hashem<\/em>, I would return to full health in the merit of the blessing I had received just that morning from the Rav.<\/p>\n<p><em>This man\u2019s faith in the blessings of the tzaddikim, even when they are obscure, was what protected him from the effects of his heart attack<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking to Heart the Tzaddik\u2019s Blessing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My dear disciple, Mr. Gabi Elbaz, was once approached by a man from Marseille who asked if he learned in the yeshiva of Rav Pinto. When my disciple replied in the affirmative, the man asked if he could share a story with him. This was his story: A number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99674,"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-99106","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\/99106","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=99106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}