The Power of a Broken Heart, A Story by Rabbi Moshe Wolfson
Transcribed by Bentzion Elisha
I would visit Eretz Yisrael every summer, before it became too difficult for me.
One year, my daughter needed a Yeshua, a salvation, in Gezunt, health.
I was very worried about it.
During those summers I used to rent an apartment in the old city right next to the Beis Medrash of Reb Nisan Bak which was ruined by the Arabs.
Alone at night, I used to go to the ruins of this Beis Medarash and say there ‘Krias Shma She’al Hamita,’ the prayers before sleep.
When I came to the Posuk, the verse, ‘Lev Nishbar Venidke, Elukim Lo Tivze’ Ribono Shel Olam, Master of the Universe, don’t forgo the Tzaar, the pain, of a broken heart.
While shedding tears, I used to linger by this Posuk, repeating it again and again
maybe twenty times or thirty times.
Nobody knew of this nightly occurrence.
It was a secret between me and the Ribono Shel Olam.
That summer, this happened night after night.
Every night when I reached that Posuk I would repeat it again and again twenty or thirty times, crying.
When I returned to America, I came to get a Bracha from the Rebbe by the time he distributed dollars for Tzedaka.
” I need a Yeshua for my daughter!” I told the Rebbe.
“The Ribono Shel Olam will send you a Yeshua with the Koach, the power, of the Possuk ‘Lev Nishbar Venidke Elukim Lo Tivze!’” The Rebbe said.
This miraculous story you can say about the Baal Shem Tov, but it happened with the Rebbe and me.
Transcribed from an audio recording of Rabbi Moshe Wolfson, who was interviewed by his grandson Yossi Wolfson and his son Shaya Wolfson.
In merit of Rabbi Mosh Wolfson’s 1st Yartzeit on the 17th of Sivan and Yossi Wolfson’s birthday. Bentzion Elisha is the author of the book ’18 Frames of Being’ available on Amazon.
