Please note that this story is repeated another date due to a discrepancy in the Yartzeit Date
THE HASHGACHA PRATIS AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE OF RAV SHMUEL HELLER TO SAVE HIS FATHER’S LIFE
In Part II of Megillas Eivah, Rav Heller’s son Shmuel writes:
I will be brief and record these events in order to demonstrate to all of Klal Yisrael just how great is the power of dispute and machlokes and how many sins controversy cause, in order that a person should greatly distance himself from this, as far away as possible. . .
In 5385 (1625), when my father was still the Av Beis Din in Vienna, he sent me off to study in Metz, France at the yeshiva of the gaon Rav Mordechai ben Rav Moshe Luria, Av Beis Din of Worms. I studied there for four years until 5389 (1629). On Rosh Chodesh Sivan, I received a letter from my father, who was now Av Beis Din in Prague, asking me to come home . . . I made my way home on foot along with other yeshiva students. . . I arrived in Vienna happy of heart and carefree, unaware that my holy father sat alone, imprisoned in one of the jail cells of this very city waiting to stand judgment for a capital offense punishable by death! In this manner, see how Hashem prepared the remedy and the cure before striking the blow, and how Hashem arranged the turn of events so that a wondrous thing would occur through me that would later set in motion and secure my father’s
