The Rav Told Me: 'You Will Be Released Much Sooner Than You Think'

A Jew who performed a pidyon nefesh for the holy Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a experienced a great miracle. "We performed a pidyon, and Rav Berland shlit"a told me that I would be released much faster than I think. Well, although the Rav strengthened me, according to nature there was nothing to be done, as I was sentenced for a long period. Nevertheless, I strengthened myself, believing in the Rav."

"I was in solitary confinement; it is a room without a window and without people. I spoke with Rav Berland on the phone, and he told me that he would come to visit me. After I hung up, I remembered that I forgot to tell the Rav that it is impossible to visit without special permits, as it is solitary confinement. I let it go and went to sleep. At night, the Rav came to me in a dream inside the solitary confinement room. It was a dream, but it seemed exactly like reality. The Rav spoke with me and also blessed me."

"I had already been in prison for a period of seven years. I spoke with Rav Berland who blessed me; he also told me a few things, and suddenly the penny dropped. I called my lawyer and told him that we needed to check the cameras from the incident I had once; I felt that it would be possible to find something there."

"Truly, Hashem helped and we found the continuation of the camera footage, and with the help of this, they reduced four whole years from my sentence, exactly as the Rav said. Many thanks to the Rav shlit"a, and may Hashem bless him."