The Day the Chazon Ish Performed Brain Surgery

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The Torah tells us, if someone injures his friend, he must pay for his medical expenses.

The Apostle says, Verapa, Yerapa.

The question is, why the double expression?

So the Gomorrah explains,

Mekan, Chinitna, Roshus, Laroi, Felirapas.

From here we learn that a doctor is granted permission to heal.

Where if you think about it,

it should really say that the patient has permission to go to the doctor to be healed.

Why is the permission framed in terms of the doctor?

So the Wilnagan says something very profound.

When we seek medical care,

we absolutely must have a carcetta of the doctors.

But at the same time, we must remember that the true healer is the Raba'nishlanah.

We have a minute that before visiting a doctor or taking medication,

we should recite a short filah.

He writes,

May this treatment be for healing because you are the faithful healer.

We are saying, Raba'nishlanah,

I'm doing my stateless, I'm going to the doctor, I'm taking medication.

But I know that you are the one who heals.

You'll give wisdom to the doctor.

You'll make the medicine effective.

And now we understand the Apostle.

Verapa, Yerapa.

From here we learn that permission was given to the Rafa'i.

Which Rafa'i?

The ultimate Rafa'i.

The Raba'nishlanah.

Verapa, Yerapa.

Asham says,

I am the Rafa'i callbassar.

I'm the true healer.

And now I'm granting permission to this human doctor to serve as mychaliyach.

The permission belongs to Asham.

The doctor is only acting with divine authorization.

What a beautiful idea from the gun.

The Gmarmacethan's seduction says something very chilling.

The best of doctors go to Ghanam.

But how can that be?

Doctors save lives.

They are heroes on the contrary.

They deserve Ghanaden.

The explanation given is that the danger of this profession is arrogance.

A doctor can believe,

I'm the one who heals.

I save lives.

I control life and death.

Before a procedure, they tell the patient, trust me.

I'm the specialist.

I'm the professional.

I know what I'm doing.

And they forget the true Rafa'i, the Rafa'i nema.

And when the patient is healed, they take the credit.

When they succeed, they forget the true source of healing.

Look at the medical world today.

Every few months, a new study contradicts the last one.

First, they said,

coffee is harmful.

Now they say,

it's beneficial.

They said, a glass of wine is healthy.

Now they say,

even one cup is dangerous.

One medication is revolutionary.

And that six months later, they say,

not so sure about it.

As much as they know, history proves

how limited human understanding is.

There's once a man who came to the Vilna Ghan

and he was broken.

He was devastated.

He said,

Rabi, the doctors have given up on me.

A specialist told me,

I have three months to live.

The girl told him,

the daughter says,

Rafa'i, Rafa'i.

Doctors were given permission to heal.

But they were never given permission to give up hope.

No doctor was granted authority

to decide life for death.

That belongs to the Rabi'i.

How many times have their predictions been wronged?

And with that,

I'd like to share with you an incredible story.

A man who made the sure all needed

a very delicate and serious brain surgery.

The doctors were concerned.

The procedure was complex.

And the risks were high.

Before undergoing the operation,

the man traveled to the neighbor act

to receive a broth from the chazanish.

After listening carefully,

the chazanish tells him,

go back to the doctor's office

and bring me all the scans

and the exact surgical plan.

Every detail of how the doctor

intends to perform the procedure.

The next day,

the patient returned

with the medical reports

and all the diagrams to the chazanish.

The chazanish reviewed them

and then with remarkable precision,

drew his own detailed plan

of how the surgery should be performed.

And he handed it to the man

and he told them,

take this to the doctor

and tell him,

this is precisely

how the procedure should be done.

When the surgeon examined the drawing,

he was stunned.

He asked,

which top neurosurgeon prepared this?

Which top specialist

drew up this plan?

In all of my years of practice,

I've never seen this approach.

This is brilliant.

The patient said,

it wasn't a doctor.

It was an elderly rabbi in Beneborac.

And the doctor was astonished.

But he followed the plan exactly

as it was drawn up at the chazanish.

And the surgery was successful.

Even better than they could have ever imagined.

At the follow-up appointment,

the doctor took the patient

into his private office.

And he told him,

you see all these deployments

or these certifications on the wall?

These represent how much I know.

Then he pointed to a picture of the chazanish.

And this picture he said,

reminds me how much I still don't know.

And that is the meaning of a Rapa, a Rapa.

We go to doctors,

we do our studies.

But the doctors are only a Shaliah.

The deployments show how much a person knows.

But we never forget

who truly heals.

And now we know.

Have a wonderful day.