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A Greater Miracle
"My stomach hurts," Michoel
complained.
His mother looked at him in concern. Michoel was not the type of kid who
complained about aches and pains all the time, but this was the third
time in the past day and a half that she was hearing about his stomach
ache.
"Where does it hurt?" she asked.
A Greater Miracle
"My stomach hurts," Michoel complained.
His mother looked at him in concern. Michoel was not the
type of kid who complained about aches and pains all the time, but this
was the third time in the past day and a half that she was hearing about
his stomach ache.
"Where does it hurt?" she asked.
Michoel pointed to his right side.
"Should I massage you there?" she asked, taking a step toward him.
"Nooo," six-year-old Michoel protested. "It hurts if you touch. It hurts really badly." His face told the same story.
"When did the pain get that bad?" his mother asked, seriously worried now.
"It keeps getting a little worse than before," he replied. "And if I cough, it hurts unbearably."
"I think we're heading to the hospital," his mother
informed him, all her plans changing instantaneously. "Pain on the right
side of the stomach that keeps getting worse, and hurts most of all
when you cough… I don't like the sound of it. Not at all."
"What do you think is the matter?" Michoel asked in alarm.
She explained to him about appendicitis and the fear that
the appendix could burst, beginning to pack a bag as she spoke. She
called her husband and asked him to come to the hospital directly after kollel.
They arrived at the hospital, where, after a preliminary examination, they were scheduled for emergency surgery.
"The inflammation is quite severe," said the emergency-room
doctor. "We're afraid of the appendix bursting; you know we want to
avoid that at all costs." Michoel and his parents sat down to wait for
an OR to free up.
"The room just became available," the nurse told them a
short while later. "They're cleaning it up and you're next." Michoel's
parents whispered chapters of Tehillim and Michoel tried to daven as
well. Just as the orderly was about to take him to the operating room, a
nurse came hurrying down the corridor.
"Don't take him," she told the orderly. "They just brought
in someone who's hovering between life and death. The appendix will have
to wait an hour."
Michoel was in pain and very nervous, and his parents were tense, too.
"We've got to do something," his mother said quietly. "Our
child is in urgent need of surgery; we can't just wait for the hospital
to get its act together. A burst appendix is life-threatening, too."
"What do you suggest?" her husband asked, lines of worry etched into his face.
"A contribution to Kupat Ha'ir," she said. They agreed on a sum and contributed.
The nurse came to tell them that the emergency surgery was
taking longer than expected, and that another emergency was lined up
immediately thereafter. Since it would be nearly morning by the time
that surgery was over, they were best off waiting for the morning shift
to begin, as the staff would certainly be more alert and refreshed than
the night shift.
"I thought Kupat Ha'ir worked more quickly and efficiently," Michoel's mother said sadly. In the meantime, Michoel fell asleep.
Morning arrived and the surgeon examined Michoel. I don't think it's his appendix at all," he said, palpating Michoel's abdomen.
More tests were taken. "He has a virus in his digestive
system," was the new diagnosis. Give him acetaminophen for a day or two.
He'll feel better tomorrow and forget the whole thing by the end of the
week."
They left the hospital with shining faces. How close Michoel had come to being operated on – for nothing!
"And to think I was complaining about Kupat Ha'ir,"
Michoel's mother said, shaking her head. "It didn't even occur to us to
daven that he not undergo surgery. It seemed so clear to us that this
was what he needed. But when you contribute to Kupat Ha'ir, sometimes
you get a greater miracle than you even dreamed of asking for!"
As his long-term marriage was falling apart, a friend of mine from Monsey (C.D.E. for those in the know) went to rabbi Gamliel Rabinowitz, one of the greatest and holiest cabalists in Israel. The cabalist promised my friend that he would not get divorced! And the blessing of the holy man, as in W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw," worked! For the last couple of years, my friend has been living in the wet synagogue basement, thrown out of his house by his wife, whom he cannot even approach on the police order. (C.D.E. cannot see his kids too.) My friend is really a dead man. However, the "blessing" worked: He is not divorced! Yet...
ReplyDeleteThe TED Talk was very interesting -- but, far from showing that we are similar, it shows that we are selfish. There is no sense of humanism or community. Each person asked for his/her own happiness, health and love. (Yes, including family -- but not including anything outside that small group.)
ReplyDeleteI think the picture it paints is far from the way she sees it. It's quite frightening.
I agree Kupat Hair is a scam. But I find nothing wrong with Yad L'Achim. On the contrary they openly write you can submit your names for free and I have done so many times. For free.
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