A Shaking Testimony from the Heavenly Court and the Power of Redemption - Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Rabbi Baruch Nimni, may he be protected, from Holon, gives a shaking testimony about the power of the redemption of the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, and about the Heavenly Court.

"I worked with a building contractor from Holon. One day, he approached me saying he had a problem. The son of a friend of his, a professional in the field, fell from a scaffold at a construction site from the fourth floor - and became a vegetative state."

"He asked me what to do, and I replied, 'Prepare a redemption for Rav Berland, what else can be said in such a situation?' The friend accepted my words with simplicity!"

"The boy who fell was 16 years old, he had been in a vegetative state for several months and the doctors told him there was no chance he would get up and indeed it would be better if he didn't."

"I went to their home, the contractor friend warned me beforehand, 'Baruch, don't give them false hope,' I replied, don't worry, you don't exist, there is only Hashem."

"I entered their home, I asked him: 'Is there a Creator of the world?' He answered me, yes. I continued to ask, 'Are there tzaddikim?' Yes!"

"I told him: There is Rabbi Berland shlit"a, I don't know how but your child will get up! Are you willing to give your all for this until the end?"

"He answered me, yes!"

"I took him to Rav Berland in Jerusalem. The rabbi told him, give a redemption of a thousand dollars and your son will get up next Sunday."

"The friend gave the redemption, but the child did not get up as Rav Berland promised."

"I told him: 'The rabbi said another redemption of a thousand dollars is needed,' he didn't ask questions and without a peep gave another thousand for the redemption. Again the rabbi said next week the child will get up, and again he didn't."

"My rich contractor friend was confused and asked me, what? I replied, don't interfere in Rav Berland's matters, while the father who gave the redemption was not confused at all and acted throughout with utmost simplicity, as did the mother."

"I answered the contractor friend: don't ask me, I don't understand anything about Rav Berland's actions, but I know there is something here."

"The third time he also gave a thousand dollars for redemption and the child still did not get up. The fourth time Rav Berland told him, 'Tomorrow at ten in the morning your child will get up.'"

It was about a child who had been unconscious for several months, when he woke up the next day as Rav Berland said, it took him some time to recover. Then he told his father, 'Dad, I was dead, I was dead'."

"The father replied: 'Of course you were dead, only the machine kept you!'"

"The child insisted: 'Dad, I was in the Heavenly Court, I had a trial and suddenly someone entered with a tallit, he put a thousand dollars on the scales, they told him it wasn't enough. He returned and put all three thousand - and then it was enough."

"The father asked the son: if I show you his picture, can you identify your advocate in the Heavenly Court?"

"The child answered: 'Yes'."

"At the time I had set up a standing order for the yeshiva, so he had the picture of Rav Berland from the standing order receipt. He took out the picture and showed his son - 'Dad, it's him, he was running up there, back and forth'."

I said to myself, the rabbi is making a commotion in the Heavenly Court, going, returning.., finally the four thousand dollars, after four times the father gave redemption to Rav Berland, were enough to redeem the son.

"Baruch Hashem, this child is alive and well today, he has started a family."