Shabbos Kodesh | Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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One time, a father walked into Rav Chaim Kanievsky, a worried look on his face. He was holding his 2-year-old boy, and he said: כבוד הרב, My son was diagnosed with an illness and his eyes are in danger of being ruined. The doctors have told us that it's inevitable. And he starts to cry and he says: My baby is going to go blind. What can we do? And R’ Chaim looked at him and he looked deeply into the eyes of the child, for a long while. And then R’ Chaim said something very surprising. I want you and your family and everyone you know to accept upon themselves קדושת השבת. Accept upon yourselves to keep Shabbos earlier, and through that, your child's vision will be fine. The fellow didn't understand, but if that's what R’ Chaim said, that's what R’ Chaim said. He went home and he told his wife

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1. 0:06One time, a father walked into Rav Chaim Kanievsky, a worried look on his face. He…
2. 0:38for a long while. And then R’ Chaim said something very surprising. I want you and…
3. 1:09and she told her friends and he told his friends and they told their families, and…
4. 1:41There's no semblance whatsoever of the dreaded disease that I thought he had. And they went…
5. 2:14but all sources of Kedushah are attracted to Kedushah. And therefore, your child whose vision was…
6. 2:44we protect everything we hold to be precious. And that is the very special עניין of…

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