One year, during the week of Parshas Metzorah, a woman came to Rav Meir of Premishlan zy”a and cried that her son had been forced into the army. As was his way, Rav Meir brought about a yeshua using a remez from the pesukim of the Torah.
He said: “’And Hashem spoke to Moshe to say.’ The Zohar Hakadosh says that the tzadik hador is referred to as ‘Moshe’. Thus, the pasuk means that Hashem speaks to every tzadik and tells them ‘to say’. He tells them to make their own decree. Therefore, Meir says: ‘This shall be the Torah of the metzorah.’ The solution for this problem will be that the boy will become a leper, and the army will release him. But ‘on the day of his purification’ – on the very day that he is released, he will become pure and healthy.”
And so it was. When the army doctor checked the boy, he found that he had leprosy, and he sent him away. And by the time he got home, he was completely healthy.
