Hair-Raising: The Miracle Story of Yaron Yamin and His Subsequent Spiritual and Financial Success

This week, in Parshat Tetzaveh, our teacher, the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, revealed another miraculous story about a redemption of the soul he performed. It involves the famous businessman, Yaron Yamin, who is close to the Rav shlit"a, and with whom the Rav stayed during his exile in Zimbabwe. After the morning prayer, the Rav shlit"a opened up and shared, "Someone bought a device that detects diamonds for fifty thousand dollars, and now this person needs 10 thousand dollars to be released from prison in Johannesburg. There is someone who already has connections with the king, every diamond there is worth 50 million."

The car will rise from the pit, don't worry

"Everything there (in Mozambique) is pits, all the roads are from a hundred years ago, you can drive a car after it rains and drown there. Yaron Yamin fell with the car into a pit and the whole car fell apart, he called me, I did a redemption for him and told him, 'Now you will lift the car and it will rise.' He connected the parts that fell off the car and drove the broken car another 30 km. Yaron reached an inn of Africans, where he found a semi-trailer and sent his worker seven hours to the capital city."

Suddenly everything turns for the better - there he receives a diamond almost for free

"There (in Mozambique) everyone drives a car with a double wall filled with gold and diamonds and Yaron had four million there. He had to keep the Africans at the inn he reached from robbing him and harming him for 36 hours until his worker returned. Every moment he bought them another can of beer, 30 hours and the worker still hadn't arrived, he regretted everything that happened to him and suddenly an African brought him a diamond. At first, it seemed like just an ordinary stone and he told Yaron, 'You are a trustworthy person, I know you, take with you the diamond to Johannesburg and see how much it is worth. Yaron indeed took it to a lab and discovered it was worth half a million."

"It was a red diamond of 12 carats, 17 carats is already a billion. Once a person found a 17-carat diamond and fainted on the spot. It was a hundred years ago, he gave it to Queen Elizabeth and it is on the royal tomb. People go there all day with devices, looking for stones and picking them up."

"Yaron Yamin, who understood that this was a very precious stone, immediately gave him six thousand dollars, when he arrived in the country and discovered it was worth half a million he added another six thousand. With the 12 thousand, he can live for a hundred years.

Yaron Yamin's Story of Drawing Close to Rav Berland and His Financial Success

After the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a mentioned the story we brought above, we felt it was right to bring the story of the businessman Yaron Yamin as he told it himself. This is a special interview brought on the Breslov World Line where Yaron returns to describe the amazing events.

"In the past, senior people from the country (Zimbabwe), ministers, and chiefs of staff met with Rav Berland shlit"a, even today they call for him to return." Yaron begins by describing the respect the heads of the state had for Rav Berland. "In my eyes, Rav Berland was always the tzaddik of the generation, the greatest person I have seen. Especially after this happened (the disgrace and arrest his pursuers imposed on him) I saw how he behaves, he personally took upon himself these disgraces, he planned how the disgraces would come to him. You could really see the simcha (joy) and love with which he received the disgraces, in my eyes this shows everything."

Already on Rosh Hashanah, the Rav prepared me for what was to come

"As I have already said in the past, I have been with Rav Berland for 20 years," Yaron begins to tell about his connection and closeness to the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a. "I met the Rav in Uman, and really, at first, only the Rav's attendants knew me as they saw me entering and leaving his house dozens and hundreds of times. Just so you understand who the tzaddik is, just last Rosh Hashanah the Rav sent me a message through one of his veteran students that he would need me soon for one of his missions. At that time, I still didn't understand what the Rav meant, but I was strong in my belief, when the Rav says I do, so I waited. After Sukkot, things became clear, the Rav called me and told me to come to him in Morocco and from there we continued together to Zimbabwe."

You need to understand that with Rav Berland everything is planned and precise

"If some of the public have questions about Rav Berland then they need to know, with Rav Berland everything is planned and known in advance. The Rav is meticulous in every action of his, you can see it to a precision that is hard to describe in words."

After a financial crisis, the Rav sent me to Zimbabwe

"Four months after Rosh Hashanah, emissaries of 'Shuvu Banim' came to my house and signed me up for a standing order for the holy institutions. They showed me a picture of the Rav and I told them, 'Yes, this is the Rav who blessed me in Uman'. They asked if I wanted a blessing from him, I answered yes, I went up to him in Jerusalem and since then I have been with him for 20 years."

"I have been a businessman for decades, after a business crisis in the country I came to Rav Berland and he sent me straight to Zimbabwe. The Rav told several people to go to Zimbabwe and they didn't do it, but I immediately gathered my belongings and moved there. It's a very long story, but I'll try to shorten it. I left the country with 20 thousand dollars and when I reached Zimbabwe I had only 14 thousand left. There they offered me several mines for purchase, but the prices ranged from millions to tens of millions and I only had 14 thousand in my pocket. I said, 'If I came all the way here, at least I'll see what it's about.'"

The Rav's words seemed completely illogical to me

"They connected us with a 95-year-old mine owner, but inside I was really embarrassed to drag a person of such age in the sun to show me the mine, while I had no money at all and he was asking for 14 million dollars. The tour ended and I told him I was sorry, but I didn't have the amount. I called Rav Berland and explained the situation, the Rav told me, 'Don't worry, this mine is yours'. I said to myself, 'What is the Rav even talking about? Where is reality and where are the Rav's words?!'"

The Rav closes the deal of my life over the phone

"I ended the call and the elderly mine owner approached me and asked, 'Are you Jewish?' I answered yes. 'Who is your Rav?' he continued to ask. He didn't know Rav Berland, but he invited me to dinner because he was also Jewish, according to him. After dinner, he asked to speak with the Rav, and while my English is completely broken, the Rav has fluent English and he became my translator. He told the Rav that his wife had passed away, he has one child who became a non-Jew, he hasn't seen him for decades."

I couldn't believe it - the Rav closed a deal with him for a mine worth 14 million for 14 thousand

"The Rav closed a deal with him that I would say Kaddish for him after he passes away and in return, he sells me the mine for the 14 thousand dollars I had. The Rav explained to me what he had arranged with him and told me to go the next day and transfer the mine to my name, but I still thought the Rav was joking with me. I'll reveal another secret to you, this man is still alive today, I visit him every few months and the Rav makes sure to ask about his well-being. All the time."

This is the wonder of the tzaddik, I am too small to understand who the Rav is and what he does. Even today, I am very connected to the Rav, but I make sure to keep a distance from the tzaddik, because you can't be near the Rav 24 hours a day, a person would surely be consumed by the fire of the tzaddik.