Evyatar Zytuni, 26, a paratroops commander, was critically wounded in the battle against the Hamas animals at Kibbutz Kissfuim, next to the Gaza border, on Simchas Torah.
Zytuni was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, where he was sedated and ventilated and has been unconscious ever since.
Last week, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Dovid Grossman of Migdal HaEmek visited the wounded at the hospital. During his visit, he stood by Evyatar’s bed, recited Tehillim and spoke words of chizzuk to his parents. He then took a special ancient coin from his pocket and briefly put it on Evyatar’s head as a segulah. Rav Grossman had received the coin from his Rebbe, the Lelover Rebbe, z’tl, about 50 years ago.
A few hour later, Evyatar woke up and told his parents: “Rav Grossman was here, he put an ancient coin on me – I felt a boom and I was pulled back to life.” Evyatar later said that he felt he regained consciousness from the power of HaRav Grossman’s tefillah and love.
Evyatar’s mother Natalie said: “HaRav Grossman stood next to Evyatar, davened and cried out to Shamayim. Then the Rav took out a coin from his wallet, placed it on Evyatar’s head, continued with his powerful tefillos, put the coin back and continued davening – all this while Evayar was unconscious. But after he woke up, he said that he felt a ‘thud,’ a ‘boom.’ We’ve been in shock ever since.”
After Evyatar regained conciousness, his parents called Rav Grossman to thank him. Evyatar told HaRav Grossman that due to the chizzuk in his emunah, he began putting on tefillin.
Natalie and her husband Yaron have barely been able to sleep since the war began. Apart from Evyatar’s serious injuries, they have two more sons serving as officers of combat brigades in the south and their oldest daughter is also an officer in the reserves.
Natalie has asked that Klal Yisrael daven for Evyatar’s refuah sheleimah as he is still in danger of having his leg amputated. Please daven for a refuah sheleimah for Evyatar ben Natalie b’toch shaar cholei Yisrael.
I don't usually belirve stuff like this but Rav Grossman is a true level above
ReplyDelete@Garnel,
DeleteWhy does Hashem’s compassion need to be aroused by a magical coin to awaken a comatose soldier? He wasn’t aware, or didn’t care of the wounded soldier’s ill health until Rav Grossman deposited an ancient talisman on his forehead?
What true level was Rav Grossman above? The standard level of superstition and hocuspocus?
Has anyone asked — hey, Rav Grossman have you documented any other magical healings begotten through the magic coin?
If that enchanted coin doesn’t work next time, you can always resort to that old standby — pouring molten lead.
It’s not the coin, dummy. It’s the blessing of the Lelover Rebbe that rests on the coin.
Delete@Anonymous 8:13PM
DeleteWhy wasn’t his blessing sufficient? Why the need for a magical coin? Perhaps Hashem had decided that the Leftover Rebbe’s sorcerous incantations were insufficient to awaken that comatose soldier. And how do you know it was the blessing and not the coin?
Rav Grossman knows what he is doing, Don't question someone who has great merit in hashems eyes. If you don't know how a blessing works, say you don't know, don't mock.
Delete@Anonymous 12:35PM,
DeleteResponding to my question with an irrelevant, meaningless response seems to be the only reply you’re capable of. So again, why was his blessing insufficient; why the need for a magic coin. Try using some coherent logic instead of vacant yeshivish klutz drollery.
Uriah's Wife
ReplyDeleteI will step in here to clarify some issues addressed.
You... Uriah's Wife, from what I gathered from your previous comments does not believe in anything, so to have a discussion with someone who finds most of the Torah's traditions ludicrous and meaningless, is an exercise in futility.
I personally know Harav Grossman for over 30 years and he introduced me to his rebbe "The Lelover z"l"
Having said that, we find in the talmud many times the idea or concept of an amulet a sort of charm and when worn brings all kinds of remedies, in fact the talmud in Mesachtas Shabbos discusses if someone may in fact wear one on Shabbos.
The coin blessed by the Lelover may or may not have any power in itself, but what it does is give the recipient even subconsciously comfort and healing. In Tanach there were many situations where the prophet, for example Elisha, would use an item to bring about a miracle. He could have done that miracle without any item but there has to be something, a material object, from where the blessing derives.
Uriah's wife who is understandably cynical about all this, only believes what he sees with his own eyes, why then does he believe that he has a brain, when he has never seen it? Just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@ Dusiznies
ReplyDeleteWell, you’re wrong regarding my beliefs, but belief’s are like bellybuttons — everybody has one and like other unfunctional appendages they’re valueless.
But the Torah contains many valuable moral guidances like
לֹא־תַחְסֹ֥ם שׁ֖וֹר בְּדִישֽׁוֹ
and לא תבשל גדי בחלב אמו
and many more. Although some of these humanistic imperatives have been corrupted to mean something other than what is implied. As far as subconscious healing and comfort — that nostrum has been around for centuries, it’s called a placebo effect. It’s what the Talmud’s and Rav Grossman’s panaceas incorporate. Yes, science has shown some placebos work. But there is nothing spiritually mystical or consecrated about any of these Segulas. It’s lots of holy mumbojumbo and nothing more. As far as my unseen brain, I assure you it’s there. And if you’ll pay for an MRI, I can prove it to you, unlike much of the Talmudic aggadic flights of fancy. So yes many aggadic tales are fables and it is correct to be cynical about them.