On the 18th of Sivan, about two hundred years ago, a miracle occurred: in the middle of the Ben Ish Chai’s derashah, the floor of the synagogue sank and everyone fled. When they returned, they were astonished to see the Ben Ish Chai still standing on his bimah—and beneath him a spring of living water had been created. Below are several excerpts from the shiurim of The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, on the greatness of the day of the 18th of Sivan:

For today is the 18th of Sivan—the greatest day of the year. On this day, a spring connected to Techiyas HaMeisim was revealed in Baghdad, in the central synagogue—Beit Zilka. At that time there were ten, twenty thousand Jews there. Suddenly the entire bimah sank and a spring burst forth. Everyone ran away. Then they drew water from the spring—whoever was given to drink from it was immediately healed of all illnesses. It was a wonder. It was publicized in all the newspapers, until the government sealed it up. They were afraid people would stop going to doctors. Because wherever the Tzaddik stands—where the Ben Ish Chai stood on the 18th of Sivan, where the “Ben Ish Chai” stood—a spring burst forth that revived the dead and healed all illnesses.

On the 18th of Sivan, the entire floor of the great synagogue in Baghdad split open, at the very hour when the Ben Ish Chai was delivering his derashah there. At that moment, about 10,000 people came to hear him. Everyone managed to escape—except him: the Ben Ish Chai remained alone on the bimah, completely surrounded by a pool of water. Afterward they drank the water, and it healed all illnesses. The water of the Ben Ish Chai healed every illness in the world. Experts arrived from England and from France to test the water. They said the water contained unique minerals that heal all illnesses. Where the Ben Ish Chai stood—where the Tzaddik stands—in the end a pool of water was revealed, and for several years it healed every illness in the world. People came from all lands to drink the water, and the entire synagogue turned into a pool of water. Wherever the Tzaddik is found—there are all the healings.

The 18th of Sivan is the greatest date: for then the entire synagogue in Baghdad sank, and from beneath the platform upon which the Ben Ish Chai was speaking, water came out. For a full year it healed—until people wanted to come from all over the world to make it into healing springs. They prayed that it would dry up, and not become a place of tourism.

Today is the 18th of Sivan—the day the earth split and a stream emerged, a spring of hot water. Today Hashem breaks open all the mighty springs—He breaks open mighty springs—from which living waters flow, waters that heal from all illnesses. Everyone who drinks from the spring of the Tzaddik, which burst forth from beneath the feet of the Tzaddik, is healed from all illnesses! This is the day—the 18th of Sivan. Once a year there is an opportunity to be healed from all illnesses, to be remembered with male children, and to find one’s true shidduch.

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