The wife told her husband, “Let’s just be mevater without telling anyone anything, and leave now. Being mevater always gains.”
The husband agreed, and they found a different shul that let them use a room for their simchah. The woman later shared that her father was scheduled to undergo surgery to remove a cancerous growth that same week. When the surgeons opened him up to remove it, they saw that it was gone!
The husband told R’ Biderman that he remembered a similar story R’ Biderman had told just a couple of weeks before, which gave him the chizuk to be mevater, and now he experienced a yeshuah as well.
“However,” he added, “in your story, Rabbi, the people were already fighting and then one party gave in. In my story, we gave in before the fight even started! You see from here that the segulah of being mevater works even if there never is a confrontation.”
It is absolutely true that being mevater always gains. We don’t always get to see the immediate benefits of it, but we can rest assured that Hashem appreciates every effort we make when being mevater and He will reward it at the proper time.
Reprinted from the Parshas Mattos-Masei 5785 email of At the ArtScroll Shabbos Table. Excerpted from the ArtScroll book – “Living Emunah 8” by Rabbi David Ashear.
