0234 - Miracle of Frierdiker Rebbe - Mr Yosef Wolf

00:00 This is a story of the Friediker Rebbe that I heard f- about twenty-five years ago from my brother-in-law, Rabbi Yitzchak Lieberman, he's the schliach of the Rebbe in Fort Lauderdale, and he's the Rav of the, the Lubavitcher shul there. And he heard this from Mrs. Golda Wolf, who lived at that time in Fort Lauderdale. She was a member of his shul, and this happened to her husband. She was the daughter of Reb Yehuda Leib Schleifer, he was known as Louis Schleifer, and he was a relative to the famous Kramer family that were very close to the Friediker Rebbe, and she also had a shai'cheis to the Friediker Rebbe. Her husband was Reb Yosef Wolf. In the winter of תשז or תשח, that's 1947 to 1948, he became very sick. Her husband became very sick, and he had a surgery on his gallbladder. The surgery went wi-- uh, well, but after he came home that same night, he started swelling up, and the swelling got so bad that when they wanted to make the tests, they couldn't do it while he was laying or while he was sitting. It had to be done only while he was standing. And the doctors found... After the test, they found that he had a certain poisoning, which was called peritonitis, something like that. And they tried to figure out what's the mokir, what's the source where this comes from, this poisoning. They couldn't figure out. And since antibiotics was not so common in those years, they couldn't find any

01:18 cure for his sickness, and they said they don't even think that he's gonna live through the night. Now, he himself was not connected to the Friediker Rebbe, but his father-in-law, Reb Yehuda Leib Schleifer, was connected, as I said before, and he telephoned right away to the office of the Friediker Rebbe to ask for a bracha. The Friediker Rebbe gave a bracha, and he said that they should add a name, and the name that the Friediker Rebbe suggested was Zelig. Obviously, they did that, and right away, his matzav started becoming better, so much so that the next morning he was able to sit in his chair, and within three days, he already went home completely healthy. And the doctors couldn't understand it. They said this is a gr- a simply miracle, a clear miracle from the Friediker Rebbe. It was a great peleh in their eyes. A month later, he went to visit one of the doctors that was involved in taking care of him that night, but that doctor only was there involved that night. Later on, he didn't know what happened. He didn't know what happened to him later. So when he came to visit that doctor about a month later, they told the doctor that, "Mr. Yosef Wolf is coming to see you." And he said, "That's impossible because a month ago he died already." He was so sure that he died that he couldn't understand, couldn't be possible that he's here. And the peleh when he saw him, you could imagine how

02:26 he wondered and the great miracle that he realized. A while later, it once happened that this Reb Yosef Zelig went with his wife to a beit hakeveros, to a cemetery, to visit the grave of one of the relatives. In that same cemetery was buried his grandmother, whose name was Sosya. And he thought, "Let me go see." He made up... He decided that, "Let me go see even that kever of her," because since he was called Yosef, Yosef was after his grandmother's father, and therefore, he felt it's a good thing to go and visit the grave of his grandmother 'cause he's called by the name of her father. When he came there and he read the matzeiva, he saw on the matzeiva it said, "Here is buried Mrs. Sosya bas Reb Yosef Zelig." That means that he realized then that his grandfather's name originally, the one he was named after, was not just Yosef, but Yosef Zelig. And the Friediker Rebbe gave that name, chose that name, that he should add the name of Zelig. And that family had nothing to do with the Friediker Rebbe as a... And theref- and, and they never realized, they forgot that his name was Zelig. And here they saw that the Rebbe's word, every word of the Rabbeim is meduyak. So when he chose the name Zelig, it was connected to the fact that his grandfather's name that he was named after was really Zelig. So here we see two things, the miracle, the nes that he became healthy

03:50 so soon after the Friediker Rebbe's bracha, and that the name that the Friediker Rebbe chose was actually the name of the person that he was named after.