8. There was a person who had three sons (ages 23 to 27) who didn't find their bashert, and the family was very worried about them. Every night, the father travels a long distance to visit his parents (taking two buses). He is a busy person (he works in kiruv and teaches Torah) but puts everything on hold and visits his parents.
A half year ago, his father needed constant help. The family hired a nurse, but the nurse didn't do what was required. It seemed that only this son knew how to care for his father. So, he spent more time with his elderly father. A month later, his oldest son became a chasan; two days after that, his second son became a chasan, and during the sheva brachos of the second son, the third son became a chasan. This is his blessing, as the Torah says, לך ייטב למען.
A few years ago (Adar 5778), a bachur from Modi'in Illit needed a complicated operation on his leg. He went to the Ziv hospital in Tzfas, where a doctor specializes in such types of procedures. The date for the surgery was set for Friday, erev Shabbos, and the bachur made all his Shabbos preparations before the operation. He was also fasting, as was required on the day of the surgery.
For some reason, the operation was being pushed off one hour and then another hour until Shabbos set in, and they hadn’t done the operation yet. The mother said to her son, "You are certainly hungry. You fasted all day long. Make Kiddush, eat something, and I will make Kiddush myself when I finish davening."
The bachur replied, "I want to honor you and eat together with you. So I will wait until you finish davening." While the mother was davening, a doctor came into the room and said, "If you didn't eat anything yet, we can do the operation now." The operation was a matter of pikuach nefesh, so it was permitted on Shabbos. In the merit of honoring his mother, he was able to have the surgery done then.
After the operation, the doctor said that had they waited and pushed off the operation again, he would have lost his leg, r'l. ישמור חסידיו רגלי, Hashem protected him and saved him in the merit of his kibud av v'em by insisting on eating together with his mother.
