The Woman With The African Kidney- You Choose God, He’ll Choose You.

A Torah Anytime original series speech in a small town about the prayer power of prayer. [music] And after the speech was over, an older woman came over to me and said, "I want to tell you a story." She said, "I'm a 60-year-old woman. 25 years ago, I began having pains in my kidneys. [music] So, I went to the doctor and he tells me, "I don't know how this makes any sense, but you, despite being an Ashkanazi American Jew, have a kidney disease that is only found in people [music] from Africa. Not African-Ameans, but like people from the continent Africa." So, I said, "Okay, so what's the cure? There is no cure. You will sadly need dialysis in 3 months." So, I said, "Okay, so what's the chance that I'll need dialysis?" 100% chance that you [music] will need dialysis. And I left the doctor's office and I went into my car and I broke down and I started crying. I can't go on dialysis. I'm a 35-year-old woman [music] with kids with a job. Going on dialysis was not an option for me. It would mean several times a week going to a dialysis center and sitting there for a few hours while the machine painfully extracts all my blood and filters it for me and then puts it back into my body. I couldn't let that happen to me. So I turned to Hashem and I said, "God in heaven, I am committing myself right here, right now to pray for you every [music] day. Just don't make me go on dialysis." So the very next day, I showed up to the daily minimum and I sat in the back of the women's section. No one knew I was there and I prayed. I don't even know Hebrew. I just prayed. I sat there and I cried. And then I came back the next night and I came back the next night and the next night and then three months later I go to the doctor and a miracle happens. I don't need dialysis. So I run right back to Schul and I keep on praying and 6 months go by no dialysis. 9 months go by, no dialysis. A year goes by, no dialysis. This woman who barely knew Hebrew, who didn't grow up domining every day, she stood before Hashem day in and day out like a warrior. never missing a day. And she shows up to the doctor after a year and the doctor looks at her charts and calls another doctor and then they call a third doctor and they say, "Lady, I don't know what you're doing, but whatever you're doing, keep on doing it. I know what she was doing. She was choosing Hashem. She was ding to Hashem when it was hard, when it hurt, when she felt like she had nowhere else to go. Such tilos are tilos on fire. Such tilos are the most powerful [music] force on the face of the earth because it's not about what you pray, it's about how you pray it.