Not only is it pouring from a cloudless sky, but the Baal Shem Tov’s wagon is remaining completely dry. This is truly miraculous and beyond human comprehension. Being an extremely intelligent person, he realized why the Baal Shem Tov showed him this and didn’t try to answer his questions verbally. Far be it that the Baal Shem Tov was merely showing off to him his miraculous powers. It was much more than that; he had clearly demonstrated that stories of our sages that are beyond human comprehension, doesn’t mean that they never occurred or are not real. There are many happenings that the human intellect says one way, but in actuality they happened the opposite way – the way he thought was impossible. Once this question was answered, he realized that all of his other questions and doubts were based on this premise. And therefore if this was resolved they all have nothing to stand on.
Full of remorse he turned to the Baal Shem Tov and beseeched him, to guide him back to the way of G-d. During the first year after his passing, the students of the Baal Shem Tov gathered and many of them related a miraculous story of the Baal Shem Tov that they personally were privy to. That night the Baal Shem Tov came to one of his students and said, “My greatness is not my ability to do miracles, it is my awe of heaven for even the smallest detail of a mitzva.
As told by Rabbi Shalom Dovber Avtzon.
