While incarcerated in a Nazi death camp, the Klausenburger Rebbe was shot in the arm, and he halted the bleeding by plucked a leaf and covering his wound. He then made a promise that if he survived, he would build a hospital that operates on the foundations of belief in Hashem, and that treating a patient is fulfilling the greatest mitzva.
In 5736, the Tzanz-Klausenburg hospital was established in Netanya.
When a committee from the hospital sought the Rebbes advice, the Rebbe told them not to pay attention to what other people are saying about them. “You are emissaries of a great Rebbe, and although you will face obstacles, you will succeed,” the Rebbe said.
At another yechidus, the Klausenburger activist Rabbi Yosef Binyamin Wulliger was asked why the new hospital was called Beis Cholim, House of the Sick. “Please call it a ‘House of Healing’ or a ‘Center for Healing,’” the Rebbe implored. “One doesn’t go to the hospital to get sick, but rather to heal.”
Indeed, the hospital became officially branded as “Laniado Merkaz Refui (Healing Center) Sanz.”
