0266 - The Rebbe Said Don't Do the Surgery

00:00 Our family lived in Cleveland, and there was a mashulach that used to come to Cleveland every year, and my father knew him and used to be friendly with him. Once, when my father was by the Rebbe, and he was in seven seventy, he sees this guy there, and he wasn't a Lubavitcher. So he asks him, "What are you doing here? Why are you here?" So he says, "I have to tell you, you guys don't know yourself the greatness of your Rebbe." And this is what he told him. He said his wife became very sick, and she was taken to the hospital, and the doctors checked her out, and they said... I don't know what exactly what it was, but the doctor said that she must have an operation. And even that operation is only like a specks fake. We're not even sure that it's gonna work. And if-- even if the operation is successful, but, uh, she probably will be sick all her life. So... But there's only choice. There's nothing else they could do. So someone told him that he should go to s- ask the Rebbe. So he came to seven seventy. He went into Rabbi Chadakov, and he tells Rabbi Chadakov that he must go in to see the Rebbe. So Rabbi Chadakov says, "You can't go in." Obviously, he didn't make an appointment. You can't just go into yechidas to the Rebbe. So I guess someone advised him that when the Rebbe comes in Mincha, goes out of Mincha, someplace, he

01:14 should stop the Rebbe middle of the way and ask the Rebbe what to do. And that's what he did. He waited, and when the Rebbe passed by, he stopped the Rebbe, and he asked-- told the Rebbe what happened, Bekitzef, and he asked the Rebbe what he should do. So the Rebbe said to him, "Should not do the operation." So right away, he ran to the hospital, and he told them that he's not letting them do the operation. And the doctor started saying, "You're crazy. It's the only, only thing that's possible to help, and even that's a selfik, but it's possible." Even his wife herself said that she wants he should do the operation because that's the only chance that she has to live. And that's the hangeshpart. And he said, no, he's not letting the operation. The Pearl Mamish did not do the operation. She was in hospital, she said, in the hospital for three months, and she started getting better. And she got better and better and better till she became completely healthy, and he used the lotion healthier than she was before. And he even said that used to be that I was the healthier one of the two of us. And after this maiseh, she became healthier than I am. So here you said-- you see the greatness of the Rebbe, and that's why he comes from time to time to seven seventy.