A letter received in the system:
The two-fold medical miracle
A year ago shortly before Chanukah, after my father got covid-19 and was hospitalized, Baruch Hashem he recovered enough within about a week to go home. However, soon after he recovered from covid, he contracted pneumonia and had to be hospitalized again.
At this point, he was not walking much due to being in bed for over a month as the illnesses sapped almost all his energy. This continued until he was unable to sit up in bed – let alone stand, much less walk at all, and had lost close to 20kg. He was also on oxygen at home due to the slow recovery from pneumonia, and his appetite was almost non-existent and was barely eating even a few bites of food each day.
At this point, my family and I had been trying for a few weeks to try and get home rehabilitation therapy for him to be able to start walking again, but for some reason, there was a mix-up in our healthcare provider’s computer system, and it said he was marked as having already received the therapy he needed – even though he had not received anything other than a couple visits from a home doctor and one at home blood test.
When a physiotherapist visited our home to check on my father, we were told that either he had to get into a rehabilitation hospital immediately – any hospital at all – or he may Chas v’Shalom never walk again.
We tried for another week or so to get him into a hospital, but there were no available places that would work without having some kind of difficulty such as hours of travel just for family to get there, or having a place for family members to stay.
After some thought, my father decided to make a not-insignificant donation to the Zera Shimshon in English Foundation from whom we had been learning the sweet words of Torah from the Zera Shimshon’s novel insights for over a year.
Indeed, the Tzadik author’s promise was not long in being fulfilled. The day after making the donation, we received a phone call saying that an ambulance was on its way to pick up my father and bring him to a rehabilitation hospital – and not just any hospital, but the top one in the country! To make it even more remarkable, this hospital normally had a 6-plus month waiting list for people to get in – and this was for those who had a referral from a doctor, which we did not!
This was the first miracle.
After his being in rehabilitation for around a week, his appetite had still not really returned and he was not showing enough signs of improvement for continued care, and we and the hospital staff were getting concerned – even to the point where he may have been Chas v’Shalom removed from the hospital for not making any significant progress.
So I decided to learn the sweet words of the Zera Shimshon as a merit to help my father’s appetite return and for him to start making progress, and I took it upon myself to learn 3 times a week from the weekly bulletins that we received via email.
Again, the Tzadik did not fail to fulfill his sacred promise. Within a few days of my starting to learn, Baruch Hashem my father’s appetite started to return and he started showing signs of significant improvement.
Two days before Pesach, my father was given the okay to go home – albeit with a walker and other help, and this was after his own family doctor said that he was not sure my father would even make it.
However, the Zera Shimshon and HaKadosh Baruch Hu had other plans, and Baruch Hashem my father is now back up and walking again, and we are very happy to have him back with us.
This was the second miracle.
We continue to this day to learn from both the Zera Shimshon’s Seferim and the weekly publications along with all the other Torah for which we are greatly appreciative of HaKodosh Baruch Hu for providing to us and the entire world.
As thanks to the Hashem and Tzadik author’s Brachah, I urge you to please learn or even simply read or listen to a few minutes of his sweet Torah insights at least twice a week – even if you don’t need it, as they are very interesting, even to those such as myself who have not really learned much of Tanach and Gomorrah.
In this way, whether you need it or not, may the Tzadik’s memory be spread far and wide, and his Neshamah be granted many great Aliyos.
