“Do not ask!!! The baby almost stopped eating. He eats with difficulty ten cc (about two teaspoons), and the doctors want to hospitalize him and connect him to a feeding tube!!! (feeding through the stomach). A miracle is needed here. You are connected to the righteous. Do me a favor and request a blessing for me!!!”
Thus began the conversation between me and my helpless brother-in-law. Immediately I arranged for him a meeting with one of the tzaddikim for a bracha. He entered for a bracha, and the tzaddik explained to him that all the suffering one endures from children is from a lack of honoring parents. The Chafetz Chaim said that all the suffering a person experiences in this world is for not honoring parents properly. If there is distress in raising children, it comes from a lack of honoring our parents in the past and in the present. Therefore, see to appease your parents and honor them in an elevated manner, and you will see that everything will be resolved!!!
From the house of the Rav, my brother-in-law went straight to his parents. He made peace with them and sat with them for a long time and set a plan to henceforth come and visit them frequently. Already on his way home, he called his wife to prepare a bottle for the baby. And behold, a wonder! The baby ate one hundred and ten cc (almost four ounces). From ten to one hundred and ten!!!
Since then the baby has been eating normally already for more than two weeks. We returned to the Rav to thank him, and the tzaddik said that there was here no wonder and no miracle. The matter is very simple, and thus he explained: “Children belittle their parents because they think they grew up and developed from the air. What does HaKadosh Baruch Hu do? He causes them to be awake whole nights with their baby, and sometimes hospitalizations in hospitals, and thus distress and pain. What is the reason for all this? Not to punish anyone, but to awaken the person to think in the following manner: ‘My parents were awake with me whole nights and cared for me with self-sacrifice according to their ability for food and for clothing and for teachers. And now I am ungrateful?‘ All this is to cause you to understand that you must recognize the good to your parents. The moment you understood the message, there is no more need to awaken you, and therefore everything was resolved!!! There is here no miracle, you simply absorbed the message!!!”
מ.פ.
