Studying Bas Ayin
The Gemara (Bava Metzia 85:) tells that a blind man went to Reb Chiyah's cave, where Reb Chiyah is buried, and said, "I study your braysos! In this merit, I should have a refuah and be able to see again!" Indeed, he had his salvation and was able to see again.
The Ben Ish Chai explains what happened. Chazal tell us that tzaddikim in heaven have immense pleasure when people study their divrei Torah. Rashi (Bechoros 31:) says that their pleasure is that they feel alive. This is as the Gemara (Yevamos 97.) states, "When you repeat divrei Torah of a talmid chacham, his lips move in the grave." He feels alive, and that is his immense pleasure.
Chazal tell us that the blind feel like they aren't alive (חיים אינם חייהם). This student said to Reb Chiya, "I study your braysos, and I make you feel alive. Please reciprocate and make me feel alive, too. I can't see, and the blind are compared to the dead. Help me so I can see again."
His request was accepted, and he saw again.
We will take this discussion a step further:
Chazal tell us that the poor and the childless are also considered like they are dead. If they study the divrei Torah of a tzaddik, they give the tzaddik life, and they can request, "Just as I gave life to the tzaddik, let me also have life. Let me have parnassah. Let me bear children."
We don't know exactly how these things work, but our discussion might be the explanation for the following story:
A bachur learned with a man who was married twenty-four years without any children. The bachur made a kabbalah that he would learn a piece of Bas Ayin every single day as a merit that his chavrusah bear a child. The segulah worked. His chavrusah told him that his wife was expecting.
Perhaps the explanation is that by learning the Bas Ayin's divrei Torah, it was like he gave life to the Bas Ayin, so he had a right to request that his chavrusah bear children, so he would also have life, and he shouldn't be among the people who Chazal say, "their life isn't a life."
It was the year 5778, and one of the members of our chaburah had an older daughter at home. She was actually a very older daughter, and they couldn't find a shidduch for her. The father made a kabbalah on the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit that he would study Bas Ayin every day. Two weeks later, his daughter became a kallah. The chasunah was two months later, and already before the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit she gave birth to a baby boy and made a bris!
