His hair had fallen out. We were also afraid. What would be next? Who knew whether the baldness would reach his peyos as well?
We tried smearing perfumed besamim water, we poured Havdalah wine on the problematic spots..., but all the segulahs were of no use. We davened to Hashem to help us, seeing no other solution.
One day I was at the bris of a family member, and I met a Yid who knew about my son’s problem. “Listen,” he told me, “the exact same thing happened to my daughter, and baruch Hashem she got better.” He gave me his wife’s phone number so that she could speak to my wife, and I thanked him sincerely.
The women spoke to each other, and the conclusion they reached from the conversation was: In Tel Hashomer Hospital there is a special clinic that takes care of sudden baldness, a condition known as alopecia. This baldness is not caused by a virus or germ, but rather is brought on by biological causes. The body attacks itself; it might have resulted from panic due to the war. The treatment uses a special method that they discovered which, baruch Hashem, helped that family’s daughter and many other people as well.
I understood that I would have to go to this clinic, but my heart fell. How do I take such a young child who was recently bar mitzvah and bring him to a place where there are such difficult nisyonos in shemiras einayim? How could I expose him to such physical and spiritual dangers?!
But if the hishtadlus for his cure needed to take place in Tel Hashomer, then I had no choice. I made an appointment at the clinic and hoped that my hishtadlus would be complete with that. At the same time, I invested in tefillah from the depth of my heart. I knew that everything was in Hashem’s Hands, and I davened that we would not need to go to Tel Hashomer so that my son, the bachur Hashem had gifted to me, would safeguard his holy eyes.
The appointment was set up for the beginning of Cheshvan. On the day of the appointment, I looked at my son’s head. I already knew where all his bald spots were, and I knew exactly where to look; and then I saw that in the place where his hair had fallen out, new hair had started to grow! While it was not yet complete, there was definite improvement. To date we had only seen the bald spots getting larger, and now it seemed that they were getting smaller.
I immediately made an appointment with the doctor in our local clinic. This was also hashgachah pratis – how the appointment was immediately available on that morning; and I took my son to the doctor. The doctor checked him and said, “If it’s growing in like this, you can probably wait with the Tel Hashomer appointment and see how things develop.”
I immediately called to cancel the appointment and scheduled another one for three months later.
After three months, we no longer needed a doctor to tell us that we did not need a specialized clinic. The hair just grew back, and we witnessed with our own eyes how this mysterious disease simply disappeared. He was completely healed through the Healer of all flesh, without our needing to go to the hospital. Baruch Hashem, we were zocheh, and he safeguarded his eyes. May Hashem help us further, and may this story strengthen him and all the readers in shemiras einayim, which brings much blessing and healing.
