Year ז"תשכ, there was a war in Eretz Yisrael, and many people came to the basement, dining room of the Mir Yeshiva, because it was also a bomb shelter. The bomb shelter provided some amount of protection, but they were still afraid, and they davened for salvation. After the war ended, they went up to the roof and they found three bombs there. They fell directly on the building, but they didn't explode.
The rosh yeshiva, Reb Chaim Shmuelevitz zt'l, said to the bachurim of the yeshiva, "Dear bachurim, don't think that bombs didn't explode in your merit... I will tell you in who’s merit the bombs didn't detonate. There is a woman who has been an agunah for some years. Her husband cruelly left her, and she suffers from poverty, hunger, and the responsibility of caring for the children is entirely upon her. She was in the Mir bomb shelter, and I heard her say, 'Ribono Shel Olam, if I will call my husband to be judged before You for what he did to me, I know that I will come out in the right. But let us make an agreement. I will forgive my husband for all the tzaar and heartache he caused me, and You should forgive everyone in this holy community, that they be saved from the war and all its dangers.' Reb Chaim Shmuelevitz said emphatically, 'In her merit, we were saved in this war!'
Reb Yitzchak Zilberstein Shlita added that this agunah was niftar just recently (now, it is about a year ago). She lived up to the age of 110 years. All of her children and descendants are going in the path of the Torah. (She has a son, seventy years old, who learns in Kollel Chazon Ish.) Reb Zilberstein said that it is a mitzvah to publicize this end to the story, so it will be known the immense reward that comes to those who forgive and are mevater.
