{"id":99115,"date":"2022-11-20T05:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99115"},"modified":"2022-11-24T23:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:55:57","slug":"operating-by-the-torahs-dictates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/operating-by-the-torahs-dictates\/","title":{"rendered":"Operating by the Torah\u2019s Dictates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Operating by the Torah\u2019s Dictates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man was diagnosed with a serious illness. When he asked his doctors\u2019 advice, they recommended an operation. Since he was terribly afraid of this course of action, he decided to ask me to bless him with a complete recovery. He did not mention his illness or the recommended surgery. All he asked for was a <em>berachah<\/em> in the merit of my fathers.<\/p>\n<p>But I noticed that something was troubling him. Therefore, I said, \u201cMay it be Hashem\u2019s will that you have a <em>refuah sheleimah<\/em> and return to perfect health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, the man was stunned. How did I know that he was desperately in need of a blessing for recovery? \u201cWhy did the Rav bless me with a <em>refuah sheleimah<\/em>? Do I look ill?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I replied that he did not. But if Hashem had placed specifically this blessing in my mouth, it was obviously meant for him. When the man heard my reasoning, he thought to himself, \u201cIf Rabbi David blessed me with good health, it is probably an omen that I should undergo the operation.\u201d And he did.<\/p>\n<p><em>With chasdei Shamayim, this man merited a complete recovery. In spite of the doctors\u2019 predictions that he would never regain his former health, he did. Notwithstanding his misgivings, he did as he understood was the Torah\u2019s outlook. In this merit, he was completely healed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operating by the Torah\u2019s Dictates A man was diagnosed with a serious illness. When he asked his doctors\u2019 advice, they recommended an operation. Since he was terribly afraid of this course of action, he decided to ask me to bless him with a complete recovery. He did not mention his illness or the recommended surgery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99881,"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-99115","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\/99115","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=99115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}