Refuah Sheleimah in the Merit of Answering Amen
Harav Aharon Roth, the author of Shomer Emunim, explained:
When Am Yisrael answer amen, immediately, the Shechinah comes to that place, and through that, they merit a refuah sheleimah – refuas hanefesh and refuas haguf.
This is alluded to in the passuk (Shemos 15:26): “Kol hamachalah, any diseases that I put in Mitzrayim I will not put upon you because I am Hashem your Healer.” Through כי אני which is numerically equivalent to amen, רפאך‘ ה– the Shechinah will dwell upon you and you will merit refuah and yeshuah. (Imrei Aharon Beshalach)
Harav Menachem Mendel Lefkowitz, a talmid of the Shomer Emunim, related:
After a time of not feeling well, I was taken for comprehensive medical testing. To my horror, the tests showed that I was suffering from a severe and incurable disease. My world went dark and I went to my Rebbe, the Shomer Emunim, with tears in my eyes, and mentioned my name and pleaded to the Rebbe: “Because I have always been careful not to speak during davening, and was strict to answer amen properly, I ask that the Rebbe should be po’el a yeshuah for me.” When the Rebbe heard my words he raised his eyes to me and said firmly: “If so, so why are you worried? Without a doubt you will have a yeshuah!”
With faith in the Rebbe’s words I asked to be retested, and to the doctors’ astonishment, in the second test, no disease was evident. (Chosamo Shel Kohein Gadol p. 97)
