Listen: More Than Reviving the Dead

A beautiful story has reached us that shows the extent of the power of a tzaddik. It is true that we have already heard great stories that border on the literal reversal of nature, but anyone who understands even a little about driving knows how the following story is not simple at all. Some would say - it is more than resurrecting the dead.

Rebbe David, an avreich and Chassid of Lelov from Jerusalem, recounts: "I was in the process of getting a driver's license and had failed three road tests, what is known as failing on small things. I arrived nervous for the fourth test, during which the car approached a stop line with a stop sign. At that moment, I forgot that I needed to stop at the line and thought I had to stop specifically at the curb line, so I continued driving. The examiner's braking was not long in coming."

'A stop sign, why didn't you stop?' he asked me. 'I wanted to reach the curb line,' I stammered at him. At the end of the test, the driving instructor told me: 'Are you normal? That is failure to obey a stop sign, and you were even braked during the test; you failed!' I, too, was two hundred percent sure that I had failed, especially since I had previously failed tests on much smaller things. I tried to strengthen myself in faith and tried to think of something that would help me sweeten the judgments. I remembered that I had given a pidyon to Rav Berland shlit"a a while ago, and now a thought came to me that this is what could help me in sweetening the judgments."

"I called immediately and made a bank transfer; whether I failed the test or not, I did my part with a whole heart. A few moments later, I received a phone call from my driving instructor, who verified my name. 'You passed the test successfully,' he announced to me with joy. 'Do you see? Only Hashem, only Hashem.' Before the answer, he did not believe it for a moment; he kept telling me that the data was really against me, and suddenly we see a miracle. If anyone had been asked before this, they would have told me that I had failed, and the truth is that I myself was already desperate. The pidyon planted faith and hope within me."

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