An interesting episode, shared with the Kollel Chatzos Office

My wife was not feeling up to herself, so we went to the doctor to make sure that everything was OK. To our shock, the doctor informed us that nothing was OK, and rushed us to the hospital before we could even process the 360-degree life turnover that had happened within the short span of that fateful appointment. In the ER, they whisked us into the ICU, hooked my wife up to a labyrinth of machines and told us to pray hard.

I tried to follow instructions. I wanted to daven hard. For a moment, a thought fluttered through my mind that I should partner with Kollel Chatzos so that the talmidei chachamim should daven for my wife. But immediately afterward, a louder voice in my brain countered that I shouldn’t be swept up by the kollel’s ads. I would be better off calling a chashuve mekubal in Yerushalayim, who would certainly evoke rachamei Shamayim on my behalf.

With shaking fingers, I dialed the mekubal and submitted my wife’s name. I could not believe his advice: Have a minyan of talmidei chachamim learn and daven at chatzos halayla as a zechus for the choleh.

I had thought I could figure things out without Kollel Chatzos. But now, I feel that, indeed, Kollel Chatzos is the right “ruchniyus hishtadlus.” I look forward to calling Kollel Chatzos once more in the near future to share the good news of my wife’s yeshua.