Listen: Miracles of the Tzaddik

There are many first-hand stories about the greatness and intensity of the holiness of the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a. Almost every day, new facts are published that reveal another layer of the miracles that visit those who believe in the power of the tzaddik to sweeten judgments over Israel and bring about salvations. "I made a promise and I was saved," Natan Eli tells us.

This is how the conversation began: "Hello, my name is Natan Eli and I am from Tzfat. Half a year ago, I was driving my car with one person over the permitted limit, and in addition, none of the passengers were wearing seatbelts. As a result, a police officer stopped me and gave me a traffic ticket for one thousand shekels and eight points. I filed a request to be tried, and indeed I had a trial in Nazareth. By the time my turn for the trial arrived, I had managed to see that all sorts of military and police personnel were tried before me, but even though they were ostensibly decent, law-abiding people, the prosecutor in the trial did not lower their fine by even one shekel, and certainly did not reduce their points."

And behold, a wonder: "In the merit of the pidyon (redemption) that I promised to the Rav (the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a), when I approached the judge, she immediately removed all eight points for me and reduced the fine to 750 shekels instead of the thousand I had received at the beginning. The reality is that only people who arrive with lawyers can manage to win a reduction of 8 points and money from the ticket. And yet, (I, who came without any lawyer), in the merit of the pidyon that I gave to Rav Berland shlit"a, I merited this salvation. What miracles of the tzaddik."