High Holy Days - Episode 7: The Private Miracle of the Rabbi of Egypt - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

[Music] we spoke about the concept of the power of bribery how it completely distorts our thinking completely distorts any process of self analysis of self growth because a person constantly is reassuring himself that he's not taking bribery he's okay he's not bribed by his desire to have a positive image the hid are one of the great great commentaries rights in the weekly portion of Ray he writes the following he writes that there was an incident this happened to one of the great students of the Gandhi Vilna one of his great students one of the students or reclaim vittal who was himself the student of the Ghana Vilna then he had a student in this this rabbi became the rabbi of Egypt of metreon his name was rough her was well known he was the rav of mithral and rough kapasi in his latter days became afflicted with some illness which caused him to go blind and he became completely blind he became an avere a blind man and we disc wota this pasok Ishod yeah a ver a nade sadiq him a man maybe it's haddock but if he's taking bribery then he will be blinded by the bribery and he started hearing some of his simple congregants saying it must be that our great rabbi was taking bribery and that's why he is gone blind because the PASOK says a shot yeah a ver a nay sadiq him so he might have been a great static vu Soloff debris haha mean he may have been a man of great wisdom but he must have been on the take he must have been taking shorter and that's why he became blind when these rumors got to the ears of this great pious rough now a blind man he called a special meeting of the entire community he asked everybody in the community all the different synagogues to all assemble in the great synagogue in metreon and he was assisted unto the bimmer he was a blind man he needed people to assist him and he was assistant unto the bimmer and he stood around he stood up and in a great voice he said I have been hearing rumors that there are people who are saying that I have lost my eyesight because i was taking shot because i was taking bribery and bribery blind says the PASOK the eyes of even a pious man a righteous man Leonard man man I must have been on the tank let me now make a statement to the entire my beloved community if I have ever taken one grain or iota or ounce of bribery then may it be that my limbs will become paralyzed and I will not be able to walk off this bimmer but if I never took primary which I'm stating that is the case if that is in fact the case and I shamis Barack knows i could ash borer who knows the truth if that is the case then may he restore my eyesight to me here on the spot the whole community was in shock and the rabbi's eyes suddenly opened and the rabbi from being a blind man walked unassisted of the bimmer a man who saw and his sight was restored for the rest of his life a miraculous thing it's recorded in a very responsible source the hid our rights this in parish at Ray showing us that Shaw had true can marinate are digging Bahaman but if a person in this case he suffered such humiliation Hashem came forth to him vinita Miedema because he was always with her Shem and cleaving to Hashem has to be awed yamini a sham helped him guided him and took him out of this tremendous pain that he'd been accepted to being blind and then being accused of bribery and he lived the rest of his days a man with full eyesight [Music] you