Amazing Miracle: The Kidney Stones Disappeared in the Blink of an Eye - The Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

The amazing and strengthening story of Rabbi Aharon Schwartz, which was adapted into a short original film, and has begun to spread worldwide and gain attention, these are the words.

"On one of the days in April this year (5779, 2019), it was mid-winter, I went to sleep at ten at night and woke up at two-thirty with terrible stomach pains. I didn't know what it was, I was doubled over in agony and didn't know what to do. I felt like I was suffocating from the pain. I got down on all fours, my wife woke up in a panic and asked me, 'Aharon, what happened?'"

"I thought I was going to end my term, I thought I was going to die, I knew it was something internal. For two hours I endured excruciating pain and didn't know what to do, until around four o'clock I called my doctor, Dr. Itamar Raz, whom I also work with."

"I told him, 'Itamar, I'm suffering from terrible pain and I don't know what to do!' He asked me a few questions, and after I answered him, he told me it was probably kidney stones. I asked him what to do about it, and he replied that in such a situation only a hospital could help."

The story from Dr. Itamar Schwartz's perspective

"At four in the morning, Rabbi Schwartz called me," Dr. Itamar Raz opens his perspective on Rabbi Schwartz's story. "He tells me he has terrible pain, I told him it sounds like kidney stones and he should go to the emergency room immediately. He replied that he decided to go to the rabbi (the righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a), I told him to do what he feels is right, but to know that to treat this stone only the hospital can help."

"A stone stuck in the kidney means two days of terrible pain with strong painkillers, like morphine and all that family. In such a situation, you usually go to the emergency room, where they later release you to a CT scan through the health fund." Dr. Raz concludes his medical diagnosis.

I stopped by the rabbi before continuing to the hospital

Rabbi Aharon Schwartz continues, "I already thought I was going to be taken to the hospital, I said I wouldn't go without seeing the rabbi first. I told myself, the rabbi is usually at these hours, four, five in the morning, after a whole night of activity, he's probably awake. It's likely that I can find him at one of the addresses he visits in Jerusalem."

"I'm in pain and trying to reach the rabbi's assistant by phone, at five he answered me. It turned out that the rabbi was near my house, I told him I must see the rabbi, and added that he should make sure to let me in quickly because I could barely move. I was sure I was on my way to the hospital, I packed a bag with clothes, arrived at the rabbi with terrible pain and could barely move."

"Do you know what this is?" the rabbi asked me

"Baruch Hashem, they let me in quite quickly, they brought me into a meeting the rabbi was having with people. I approached the rabbi with great difficulty and told him, 'Rabbi, I have insane pain in my stomach. The doctor says it's suspected kidney stones and I'm on my way to the hospital.' The rabbi replied, 'What, really? Wow, wow, wow.' I didn't understand what the rabbi meant until he continued and said, 'Do you see the drops on the table? Do you know what this is?' 'Homeopathic drops,' I answered."

"'Bring the drops, do you have the strength to open them?' I answered yes, 'I don't believe you,' the rabbi quickly said, 'Open, open, I don't believe you. Now put a drop on your tongue.' I put a few drops before the rabbi humorously told me, 'If you die, let me know.' And he continued, 'Come at six-thirty for the morning prayer'."

"I'm searching and can't find where it disappeared to"

"I kissed the rabbi's hand, I'm about to leave the room, and I can't believe what's happening to me. I'm searching for the pain, I go outside towards the balcony and realize I have no pain. I'm searching for those bitter and terrible pains I came with, when I couldn't move, after all, I was on my way to the hospital. I keep searching for the pain and I just want to jump and dance with simcha (joy), to suddenly feel my body after two and a half hours of writhing on the floor in pain. I really want to dance, I want to jump, I can't believe it, I'm searching maybe there's still a little pain left, maybe here? Maybe there? I'm scanning my whole body - no pain, boom, in a second all the pain flew away."

The doctor talks about the second call from Schwartz

"I heard there was some kind of miracle here!" Dr. Raz returns to summarize the event as seen from his side. "Yes, you remember that at six in the morning, after I left the rabbi, I called to tell you that all my pain disappeared," Rabbi Schwartz replies to him. 'After you left the rabbi, you told me you took drops and everything passed for you, miraculous. There are miracles, there are tzaddikim in the nation of Israel,' Dr. Raz continues. 'The tzaddikim are alive and exist, may it be Hashem's will that we merit to draw close to them, both to our holy Rebbe and to the tzaddikim living in every generation.'"

"My rabbi took the pain from me in a second, it's amazing"

"It just completely ended, I went from the mikveh straight to prayer, I waited for the rabbi to arrive for prayer, the whole prayer was fire and flames, shouting, Baruch Hashem as usual. I forgot about this nightmare, that I had the merit of kidney stones for two and a half hours. I took from the incident my personal lesson, what Hashem hinted to me in those hours. Everyone takes for themselves those thoughts, that teshuvah (repentance), that feeling that the suffering should bring - a moment of teshuvah, a broken heart, and submission before Hashem."

"I had what I had, but apparently it was enough, my rabbi took the pain from me in a second, it's amazing," Rabbi Schwartz concludes with a smile.