0484 - The Rebbe's Connection with R' Zalman Shimon Dvorkin Part 8 - Medical Questions

00:01 Rabbi Ficher Itkin also told me that Rabbi Zalman Shimon told him that the Rebbe would many times send things, shailas to him, even though they were not shailas in Halacha. They would send questions to him that he should answer. And he said, obviously, the Rebbe gave him a certain that the Rebbe worked through him, that certain things should happen through him. And he gave an example that Mrs. Posner from Pittsburgh, where Rabbi Zalman Shimon used to live in Pittsburgh before he moved to New York, Chaya Posner. So there was a discussion. She needed surgery, and there was a whole discussion whether you should do the surgery or not, what's better or not. So they asked the Rebbe, and the Rebbe said to ask Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dworkin. So they came to ask him. He couldn't understand why they would ask him. This is not a shaila in Halacha. He didn't understand why they would ask him. But nevertheless, on the spot, without thinking, he said, "Yeah, you should do the surgery." they did the surgery, and when they opened up, they had to cut out some things, a growth which was about twenty-five pounds or something like that, which is a lot. And they said that it was very good that they did the surgery because if they wouldn't have done the surgery, her life would be in danger. And she lived after that four or five more years. And he said he started thinking he doesn't even know why he answered right away yes.

01:17 But it just came into his mind, and it-- he answered yes, and it-- everything worked out. So he felt actually that the Rebbe wanted to work through a Rav. So the Rebbe sent to him, and it was really the Rebbe through him answered yes, and the surgery was done, and it was very successful. And had they not done it, it would have been, uh, not good. Things would have been very dangerous. Another thing he told me that before Rabbi Zalman Shimon lived in Pittsburgh, he was a while in Detroit. Later, Rabbi Sholom Posner brought him to Pittsburgh. So he told, he told him that he had, while he was in Pittsburgh, he had a problem with his eye, and he needed like a certain surgery, he'd have to go to the hospital. And he didn't wanna go. So he wrote to the Rebbe. So the Rebbe answered him, "You should know that America is different than Europe. In Europe, the saying there is that rich people, the doctor comes to their house. Only poor people go to the hospital. But in America, everybody goes to the hospital." So the Rebbe told him he should go to the hospital, and he went to the hospital, and everything was successful.