A Full Recovery | Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff

Yehonason Chaim Michoel is a paramedic. An EMT specialist. He often takes patients to the hospital, to the emergency room. His Rav, the Rav of the Young Israel of White Plains, Rav Shmuel Greenberg shlit”a, was very not well. He had contracted COVID. He was intubated, he could barely breathe. Yehonason decided that he would take patients periodically to the emergency room of NYU, and once there, he'd make his way to the Rav’s room, and say some Tehillim and daven for him. It was a COVID ward, complete lockdown. No one was allowed in, except for medical staff. Family members, Shul members, no one could visit the Rav. For a period of four months, almost on a weekly basis, he figured out a way to take a patient to the emergency room, to see his Rav. One time, he's in the emergency room, transferring a patient from the gurney onto the bed, and he sees a sight. There was a nurse who was very provocative. He immediately looked down. He refused to look at her. He said: Ribono shel Olam, in the zechus of me not looking at this lady, at this nurse, please send a Refua Shleima to my Rav, Alter Shmuel ben Chava Leah. He walked out. They thought he was crazy. He was bumping into furniture in the emergency room. He wasn’t looking up, looking totally down. He made his way out, and his partner in the ambulance said: I'll take the things back to the ambulance. You do what you got to do. Because he knew he was going to see his Rav. Now, every single week he'd come to the room of the Rav, and he’d ask the attending nurses: What's his condition? It was deplorable. There was simply no hope. He was on a ventilator. He could barely breathe, רחמנא לצלן. But this time he came in there and he asked the nurse: How's the Rabbi? Incredible! Look, he's not struggling as he breathes. It seems that almost instantly, this Kabbalah of not looking and davening to Hashem had results. בחסד עליון, the Rav recovered. They recently made a הכנסת ספר תורה in his honor. I’m home now, for the first time in over six months. הודו לה’ כי טוב, כי לעולם חסדו. Vayimaen is such a powerful force. By not looking at something that is enticing, and dedicating it to his Rav's Refua Shleima, he had a Refua Shleima. The Zechuyos of not looking are incredible. Let's steel ourselves, let’s strengthen ourselves, let's refuse to look, especially a second time. Hashem will shower us with ברכה והצלחה, and we’ll be zoche שימלא ה’ כל משאלות לבנו לטובה.