A Boy With Cancer HaRav Chaim Dovid Bakan, the menahel of Mosdos Bobov in America, received a phone call one Friday morning from the previous Bovover Rebbe, zt’l. The Rebbe requested that R’ Bakan write a certain letter for him, and deliver it by that afternoon, since it would be picked up on Motzei Shabbos. R’ Bakan arrived by the Rebbe’s house that afternoon at one-thirty to deliver the letter. The Rebbetzin told him that the Rebbe had been cloistered in his room for a long time, and had asked not to be interrupted by phone calls or visitors. When R’ Bakan told her that the Rebbe had requested that he bring a letter at one-thirty, she suggested that he knock on the door. R’ Bakan knocked, the Rebbi opened the door, and R’ Bakan stood back alarmed. The Rebbe’s face was wet with tears, and his eyes were red and swollen from crying. R’ Bakan reminded him about the letter, and the Rebbe requested that he wait for a few minutes. After a few minutes, the Rebbe opened the door, and asked R’ Bakan to come in. The Rebbe then sat down in his chair, and began crying again bitterly. R’ Bakan felt like he was going to faint, but he dared to ask, “Rebbe, what happened?” The Rebbe answered, “Someone came to me and told me the name of a young boy who’s sick with cancer. I am davening that he should be healed.” The weeping of the Rebbe then got stronger, “Ribbono Shel Olam, anneini, anneini! A young boy is sick!” The Rebbetzin the entered the room, and asked the Rebbe how long he intended to fast, and R’ Bakan understood that the Rebbe was fasting for the boy’s sake. The Rebbetzin said, “It will be Shabbos soon; there’s food waiting for you on the table.” The Rebbe responded, “To eat…. to eat….that I should eat! Their soul abhors all food! When there’s a young boy who’s sick, am I able to eat?” “Their soul abhors all food” rang in R’ Barkan’s ears for a long time after hearing the Rebbe utter these words. Later, on Shabbos afternoon after Mincha, when R’ Bakan read perek 107 in Tehillim, and read the words, ‘Their soul abhors all food,” he realized that these words are said on the sick person himself. The Rebbe however said it on himself because he truly shared in the tzaar of Yisrael.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:45:00 +0000
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