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| Rav Chaim Kanievsky |
4 brothers who were a suitable match for a Kidney, went to the home of rav Chaim Kanievsky and held a lottery on who should donate a kidney to their ailing sister. The youngest of the brothers won the lottery yet he did not want to donate his kidney and was nervous about undergoing the procedure. Rav Chaim kanievsky insisted that he go through with it and told him it would be good for your health. The following Sunday a few days before chanukah 5775 the brother and sister both went into surgery for the kidney transplant. When the doctors removed the Kidney from the brother, they discovered a tumor underneath the kidney which they would not have noticed had they not removed the kidney.
The Tumor began spreading to the Pancreas, and had they not caught it in time they would not have been able to treat it. Naturally the kidney could not be used and the brothers held another goral to determine who should donate to the sister. Rav Chaim insistence and bracha helped save the younger brothers life.
I hate to be a skeptic, but surely the original goral was the indirect cause of discovering the tumor and saving his life. If we will take on that hashgacha pratis did extend to this individual and this particular goral, then why not thank Hashem?
ReplyDeleteAll Rav Chaim seems to have said was if you agreed to consult a goral then you should stick to the results.
And of course none of this adds nor subtracts from Rav Chaim's renowned ameilus and bekius in Torah!