Lidor Genza Experienced Clinical Death and Was in a Coma for a Whole Week Until the Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a Arrived at the Hospital

"Come quickly, Lidor is swaying here," testifies Lidor's friend about the moments of terror before his clinical death. "I ran to him and saw that his eyes were almost rolling back and something bad was happening." The friend testifies that afterwards Lidor's condition improved slightly, but shortly after it deteriorated again to the point of death. "We saw him start to convulse and then foam began to come out of his mouth."

Lidor Genza, a secular 23-year-old, recounts the difficult event of the clinical death he experienced after using drugs. He claims the drugs were introduced into water he drank without his knowledge, but in any case, the result was disastrous, his health deteriorated to the point that he needed a miracle to return to life - a miracle that occurred only after he transferred five thousand euros for the redemption of the soul for needy families from the Shuvu Banim community, and after the righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a arrived at his hospital bedside.

A Critical Medical Condition That Lasted a Long Time

The case was indeed known in the close circle of Rav Berland shlit"a, but gained significant attention after being published in the '7 Days' section of 'Yedioth Ahronoth'. There, Marcel Genza, Lidor's mother, also recounts, "The trauma room manager came out and said to me, we are now fighting for his life, 42 degrees fever, three hours, we can't bring it down. A cardiologist also came out to me and said they are taking him to intensive cardiac care, opening his heart, pushing electricity to get it to beat."

I said to him: 'So what are you telling me? That my son is dead?' Be direct, don't hide from me.' I started screaming there.' For many days, Lidor was kept sedated and on a ventilator and did not respond to the doctors' attempts to wake him. At some point, Marcel recalls (as reported in Yedioth), a doctor came to me and said, you know the situation is not good? I looked at him with a glazed look and didn't listen. I refused to believe that my son wouldn't return to me."

After a Week of Critical Condition, They Turn to Rav Berland

"Lidor's friends decided to take action. Shlomi Galam recounts: 'On the fourth day of Lidor in the hospital, we contacted Rav Berland's assistant, just before he was supposed to fly to Uman. The assistant went to the Rav and told him, 'A boy was with his friends at a party, took drugs and can't wake up', the Rav immediately said to him, 'Five thousand euros for the redemption of the soul and he will get up by Shabbat'."

"We said what five thousand euros, it's hard to bring 21 thousand, for what? Why? But then we talked to many friends, did an online fundraiser, and managed to raise the money. We set a meeting with the Rav at six in the morning on Friday. We arrived in the morning, and then simply a miracle happened, the Rav just entered the hospital, and Lidor opened his eyes. The Rav entered his room, recited chapters of Tehillim and performed a ceremony I don't understand, in the end, he said, by tomorrow Lidor will wake up. On Saturday night, Lidor's father called us and said, Lidor woke up. I remember how we all jumped like crazy."

The Visions Lidor Saw During the Clinical Death

"I had a movie running of my life," Lidor recounts the visions he saw during the clinical death. "At the age of two, I had an accident, a car hit me, I see that, then school, from first grade to ninth grade, then the military boarding school. After my whole life passed, suddenly everything switched to a red screen, I didn't go to it, and then suddenly there was a big flash, a white screen, and I went to it and woke up in the hospital. I tell this to people and they think I'm crazy but that's what happened. I didn't know I was lying for a week, I was sure I woke up after a few hours."

In an Interview Conducted with Natan Edri (055-677-0330), the Gabbai of the Honorable Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, Lidor said to the camera.

"Medically, I arrived at the hospital with one percent oxygen in my brain. Failure in all body systems, nothing worked, not the kidneys, not the liver, not the heart. Every day there was another deficit of the body that did not respond."

"They called the Rav (Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a) to come, I don't know exactly how, I was unconscious then. They did a redemption of the soul from people's donations, the next day my heart function returned. Rav Berland said that by Shabbat I would wake up, and so it was, on Shabbat I saw a great light and woke up. Exactly as Rav Berland said would happen, so it happened.