The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-הרופאים לא יודעים איך לנתח והינוקא מבטיח - מחר התינוק יחזור הביתה • סיפורו האישי של הרב מנשה סביליה

3:48 And now I'm helpless What is happening with my child? And what turns out? that the stones blocked the way to the liver, all the flow the liver has The stones blocked the way to the liver; his liver is not functioning right now And they want to operate on my child, only they don't know who will operate And they don't know who is able to operate on a child half a year old in such an operation For a child half a year old this is a very complicated operation Now they don't know if this is the solution whether he can live at all, at such an age, without a gallbladder For an adult it's different, and for a baby it could be that maybe a baby They don't know from research how to answer these questions

4:20 A case like this hasn't happened before And when I understood that right now there are no answers and right now they don't know what to do with my child I sank even lower with this I was like some broken vessel walking around the hospital And my wife, like this, very, very stressed at home, not knowing what's happening And I started calling rabbis, all kinds of rabbis I know and that my friends know, to get advice mainly, mainly, mainly, that they pray for my son less to look for some 'Baba Sali', may the memory of the tzaddik be a blessing who can tell you - issue a decree, and the child... less so We're in a different generation; and I was looking mainly for them to pray for my son I called all kinds of places

5:02 and friends who live in the north, that they go to Meron, and hang up to try to receive a salvation in the merit of the prayers of the Jewish people, with the help of Heaven And I remembered, suddenly I remembered the Yanuka. What do I mean, I remembered the Yanuka? My wife's aunt - we were guests there for Shabbos and there I happened to see the Rav for the first time How many years back? Six years back Six years back I happened to see the Rav there How did I happen to see the Rav? We were guests there for Shabbos I prayed on Friday night in a Chabad synagogue There was a very, very good atmosphere, it was very enjoyable In the morning I'm used to praying on Shabbos, usually at netz (sunrise) and I asked where there's netz here, so they explained to me more or less

5:48 And the husband of my wife's aunt he used to pray netz sometimes in this synagogue So he said to me, I'll take you to a Sephardi synagogue with netz We arrived before netz, and we met the Rav on the way I tried, like, to say some new Torah insight I understood that I'm dealing here with a tremendous Torah scholar of the caliber of... bent over like that, shy, and embarrassed of himself And there was something like, something strange... someone tells me, yes he is a very great Torah scholar, people talk about him they say that he will be a great one in Israel, with Hashem's help And we went through that Shabbos, and that's how he was engraved in my memory And this jumped into my mind in the hospital I said, I have to turn the world upside down to reach him

6:35 so he'll pray for my son - that's what I wanted that he take my son's name and simply pour out a prayer and pray for my son And it wasn't simple until I managed to reach him I called a relative again and he tells me, I'll make sure someone goes, will be next to the Rav It was already the third day that we're in the hospital and the doctors have no answers, and my son's condition all the time keeps deteriorating a bit more, and deteriorating a bit more His eyes were already yellow-red The liver, the area of the liver was already really swollen He had really already entered that border of danger to life Understand what we're talking about; and the worst is that a person goes to the hospital not upon us and not upon anyone of Israel

7:18 and the doctors have no answers what is happening with him Even if it's, Heaven forbid, a bad illness or something like that where the doctors have an answer and there is some medicinal treatment then that helps a person a bit, calms him a bit there's hope that he can, like, come out of danger to life Here that wasn't so, and I'm frantic, burning inside In the meantime they moved a whole house for me; the situation was not simple The situation was not simple at all; emotionally we were really crushed And I'm all the time with prayer, truly with a siddur and with Tehillim all the time, and reading And they called me, and said, you're on the speaker, he's next to me That young man called me, he said to me "You're on the speaker, the Rav is next to me" - and there I broke down

7:59 I had held myself together some three days or so and there I broke down. He couldn't hear me in sorrow He couldn't hear me in sorrow, he wasn't able to He said to me, "Stop, I can't listen it's hard for me" - like, on such a level, it was... And then I understood that I can't take up the Rav's time so I tried to calm myself and I simply told the Rav exactly what happened all the stages with the child, and that the doctors have no answers and don't know what to do with the child and also don't know who will operate on him at all He needs to be operated on immediately they don't know how to operate on him; they haven't operated on such a thing before There was silence on the phone; I finished talking, there was silence

8:40 After he told me "Don't be distressed," I continued telling my story about what is happening with the child in the hospital and then there was silence I don't remember how long this silence lasted ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds, but there was silence I remember this silence as an eternal silence Apparently, in the silence that there was, he was apparently looking at the child in the picture and he started murmuring all kinds of things like that about the child "Wow, what an angel, what an angel of Hashem" - about the child And then he said to me, "Tomorrow he will be home" "Tomorrow they will release him home" And the young man who was there immediately took the phone So I say to him, what does it mean, tomorrow the child will be home?

9:24 You need to understand, no doctor has an answer They consulted with an expert doctor at Rambam a certain professor from Haifa who they know had been at some advanced training in the United States he is also a gastro specialist - had he come across such a thing? He requested some archives from some university in the United States, if I'm not mistaken where they deal in this field of gastro (gastroenterology) and tried to narrow all the information toward such cases, of a baby at this age And ten minutes after I spoke with the Rav, ten minutes what I'm telling you, ten minutes - I smell a bad smell because he's on me all the time, he wasn't calming down; I open and I see white with a few brown spots And the gastro doctor had told me, any time he does, that he has a bowel movement

10:19 and it's a drop more than white white with some brown spot or something like that you roll it up, keep it until I come for a visit again, you show it to me There's been no change with the child for three days And right away I called my wife, I said to her, listen well I have to tell you something. She says to me, what? I said to her, ten minutes ago, maybe a quarter of an hour I spoke with the Rav, and the Rav told me this it seems to me that we're, Baruch Hashem, in a somewhat more positive direction And she says to me, you know what we'll do?

10:44 In another hour, try to give him a bottle The child hasn't eaten by mouth for three days already four days, since Shabbos I prepared him a bottle, he drank half a bottle The first time after four days, the child drinks half a bottle of milk half a bottle of milk, I took him for a walk downstairs; this was at Kaplan I took him for a walk downstairs there are all kinds of paths like that by the lawn there, a bit of air I lift him onto me, he started crying a little I lifted him onto me, again I smell a smell This is already about three hours after I spoke with the Rav I open, I see real brown streaks, real brown streaks My wife told me, bathe him, try to give him a full bottle

11:23 maybe he'll drink a full bottle. The child drinks a full bottle Already you see a marked change. Understand that I spoke with the Rav it was in the early afternoon hours here we're already in the evening Look at the change that came over the child - it was a shock This is above nature, this is, like, not graspable Around eight there was a kind of doctors' round in the evening especially for my son. First thing, as they came in I told them, I want to go home, I want to go please release us home because I understood that something good happened here. So they told me Calm down, first of all calm down, you are not going home Your son, up until yesterday, in the series of tests he had in the morning it showed that it's only getting worse and worse

12:05 And I keep pressing them: please, look whether there's a change just release me home, I have no problem coming every morning maybe in the morning just treat, just look They told me, listen what we'll do, we'll do blood tests for him we'll do urine tests for him, and we'll do an ultrasound for him And every time he has to go through this series of tests again I'm heartbroken; I took him to this test already in my heart I understood that something happened here I already understood and believed that truly something happened here The gastro doctor comes back to me with all the answers "Wait," she told me, in the room; we waited in the room She came back with all the answers, she says to me "What happened with you is a miracle." I said to her, what happened?

12:44 She says, "The liver returned to being normal in the last few hours we don't know what happened." And I simply didn't believe it I was, again I started, I was, you know I was in a bit of a sensitive period I picked up the child, I started to tear up and didn't know what to do I understood that there was a miracle here that is far above nature far beyond nature; this is something completely amazing What happened with the Rav is indescribable Some of the rabbis I had talked with before I talked with the Yanuka they called about a week or two later to ask what's happening how the child is; and when I told them this, they were simply in shock because to some of them I had sent the child's tests by fax

13:32 each time I sent to a different rabbi, rabbis who specialize in medicine They didn't know what to answer at all, you understand? They didn't know and some told me, maybe it's worth operating, maybe not we said it's a risk, because they don't know how to operate And then I told them there's a certain Rav whose name is Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda I told them the whole story, the whole course of events with him Today, every smallest thing I do truly every step I need to take that has meaning in my life, I simply go to him And I see his advice being fulfilled and coming true, one by one And it's simply unbelievable how much help from Heaven there is in his blessings Today, now that I'm a bit closer to the Rav, and know the Rav

14:28 I also understand where it comes from You see his toil in Torah his self-sacrifice for the Jewish people, for the simplest of the simple to see the great ones of Israel coming to him the greatest dayanim, and roshei yeshivah, and roshei kollel and the simplest ordinary Jews there are and also holy and pure Jews, even ones who don't have kippahs who come there to the public reception and look for some kippah to put on He looks at everyone at eye level just as he looks at the great one, he looks at the small one And this mighty love of his for the Jewish people it's something inconceivable, it's simply something amazing And from there I understood through whom Hashem performs miracles And I owe the Rav, and I must publicize this miracle And I will publicize this miracle; the Rav doesn't need it

15:23 Also, when I came to the Rav to say thank you for what happened he simply lowered his head, and it was hard for him to hear it he felt uncomfortable that I told it "Thank you very much, thank you very much" - and he blessed the child, and blessed me To everyone who heard and hears this story this is my small thank-you to the Rav! Thank you very much.