6.26.2015

@ A Baalshemske story




Once in awhile an event takes place that can only be properly described as a 'Baalshmeske maise', i.e. a supernatural occurrence, after Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov who was known as a miracle worker. Here's one of those stories related by Rabbi Laibel Groner, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's personal secretary,  this past Shabbos:


A woman had been married for five years but wasn't getting pregnant. Someone suggested she go see the Lubavitcher Rebbe for a blessing, which she did. During the meeting, the Rebbe asked if she had been previously engaged to someone else, turned out that she had but had broken off the engagement. The Rebbe then inquired if she had asked for forgiveness from that man, she replied that she had not. She was then instructed to travel to Tel Aviv to a certain location at a certain time and see if she could locate the man and ask for forgiveness. The woman did as instructed, found the man and asked his forgiveness. He was happy to oblige and they parted ways. Soon after,  the woman became pregnant and after the baby was born, she had a "chance" encounter with the matchmaker  who had arranged her first engagement with that man. She then began relating the whole episode. When she came to the part when the Rebbe told her to go to meet the man in Tel Aviv, the matchmaker's face became noticeably  pale and by the time the woman was finished, the matchmaker looked as if she was about to faint. She then told the woman  that the man she had seen a year before had been dead for four years!

This is an example of  a) the power of the Rebbe to summon a soul from the afterlife and have it come down in a body for a mission and b) the love and care the Rebbe displayed towards regular people to help them solve their pressing problems.

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