I live in Ashdod. I have a car, and from time to time I drive people for a fee. One yeshiva student booked a trip to the Mount of Rest with his wife. The trip began in a somewhat heavy atmosphere, and later in the ride the student poured out his heart: "My son is hospitalized at Maayanei HaYeshua in a severe mental state. This is something that I do not wish on anyone. His suffering, our suffering. Our eyes are blind, and we are of no use at all. "In the midst of this bitter and hasty experience, we did some soul-searching. My wife said that maybe we should ask someone for forgiveness, and we did. A few years ago we left the house, and we left the small children with a young girl who served as a babysitter. When we returned, we discovered that we had lost a very large sum of money. We searched the whole house and couldn't find it, and the babysitter was suspected. "My wife asked the girl about it, and she denied it outright. We kept searching, and since we couldn't find it, we went back to the girl's family and demanded the money. The mother was angry: 'What do you want from her? Our daughter is God-fearing and will not touch anything that does not belong to God, but we claimed that the parents are covering for her instead of educating her, and a few other exchanges like that. "My wife said that we should ask forgiveness from the girl we hurt. We located the girl who lives abroad today, and my wife spoke to her on the phone. The former girl said that she did not take anything, but she has no problem forgiving. "I understand that you were very nervous, and that's why you acted this way. I forgive wholeheartedly, but you should know that even then I took the matter more lightly. The one who was really hurt was my mother, may she rest in peace. She couldn't bear to be suspicious of her daughter, and you have to ask her for forgiveness.' "
My wife inquired with her about the mother's resting place, and we are on our way there," the yeshiva student finished telling me. I'm a Cohen, so I didn't enter the compound. My passenger went up to the mountain, found the plot on Mount Tamir, and a few graves away found exactly nine Jews, and they agreed to join the minyan. The traveler and his wife took off their shoes and, with a broken heart, asked for forgiveness from the girl's mother.
On the way back, the tender father next to me receives a phone call from Maayanei HaYeshua, after a difficult period in which they have seen no progress. "Your guy can be released," they tell him. We've just done tests, and he's in good condition. We recommend a certain drug with a lower intensity, for a period of time, and there is a great chance that after repeated inspections they will be able to lower this medication as well. "I'm just the driver, and that's the story I witnessed. You'll draw your own conclusions...
