THE HOLY DOCTOR - A SAVIOR FOR PATIENTS
Rebbe Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk blessed Yissochor Ber and his wife Hinda with longevity and a child, whose good deeds would illuminate the world, after they ransomed a Jewish family and gave all their possessions in order to remove the father of the family from prison. When Hinda heard the blessing, she burst out laughing, since she had begun to show signs of aging. Nevertheless, in the year 5530 she gave birth in Zoloshin, Poland, and their son was called Chaim Dovid after his paternal and maternal grandfathers.
At the age of one year, he began to speak and at the age of 3, he knew how to read Hebrew. At the age of 10 years he was already famous for his knowledge of the Talmud and at the advice of the town's Rav, he was sent to study at the Yeshiva in Piotrkow, Poland. However, two years later, he fell ill and the Rosh Yeshiva sent him to one of the Jewish doctors in the city, who was among the assimilationists. The doctor's wife began to teach him secular studies and the German language, and together with her husband managed to convince him to leave the Yeshiva and go to Berlin, Germany, in order to progress in his studies. After completing his studies with honors, he abandoned the Jewish way of life, and began to study medicine at the university in Breslau (Wroclaw) (Germany at that time, today – Poland). He worked at the military hospital in Breslau, married the daughter of the banker Samuel Segal Landau and lived in Berlin at the palace that his father-in-law bought them. He worked as deputy director of the military hospital in Berlin, became famous as a medical specialist, and became the personal physician of the king of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm William II, and the king of Poland, Zigmund Augustus.
One day, he met Admor Rav Dovid Biderman from Lelov and began to do teshuva. He continued to practice medicine, but gave the money he earned to the needy, retaining for
