The Doctor Gave Her Six Weeks, Then the Unthinkable Happened

0:00This Torah class is brought to you by Torahanytime.com The Torah tells us that the reward for honoring appearance is a rikhasiyaam in long life and the question is, why this specific reward? Why not wealth or success or righteous children? And the answer is, it is Mida Kanagad Mida. A person sometimes looks at caring for parents or honoring parents as a waste of precious time. He says, let him call an Uber. Let the attendant take them to the doctor. Have a business there on. Have places to be. I don't have time for this. So the Torah tells us, don't worry about the time you think you are losing. You will have a rikhasiyaam. Every minute you invest in honoring and caring for your parents will be returned to you many times over in the form of long life. The time is not lost. It is repaid. Statistics prove that parents care for their children for about 18 years and likewise children care for their elderly parents also for about 18 years.

1:05Whether or not the numbers are exact, that is profound. Life comes full circle. And by eating, this is certainly true in a deeper way. We revere a Tata Mama. And Al-Tarzaida and Al-Tarababa is Coidish Qadsham. We don't see them as a burden. We see it as a scuse to have them around and learn from them and honor them. Because the Torah promises us, we never lose out by honoring our parents. And with that, I'd like to share with you an incredible story that someone sent me that he heard from Rabbi Ghamlil Rabanovitz. A few years ago, there was a man in Ashdad named Ramot Hamasquids. And tragically, his young wife passed away. And he was sitting Shiva with their 17 children. One day, in the middle of Shiva, the phone rang. They picked up, and on the other end of the line was their mother's doctor, the oncologist who had treated her. He said, please put the phone on speaker.

2:05I want to share something extraordinary about your mother and wife. And the doctor began to speak. Rabbi Ghamlil Rabanovitz, he said, I want you to know that your wife was a living, safer and a more number-talking for me. Let me tell you what happened. A little over four years ago, your wife came to my office. She wasn't feeling well, and we ran tests. When I saw the results, I was devastated. I told her the truth as it was. You don't have much time to live. About six weeks, and that's it. I told her, the treatment would not be worthwhile. At best, it might prolong her life by a few days. And therefore, we wouldn't begin any treatment. She looked at me calmly, and she said, Doctor, I'm not worried. I have insurance. I thought she misunderstood me. So I said, this is not about money. This is life and death. She said, Doctor, you don't understand. I have insurance from the Torah. I have insurance from their financial oil.

3:05My elderly mother lives with us in our home. She no longer understands what's going on. We have an aid. But even with help, I'm busy caring for her day and night. And I know that Hashem will not take me from this world and leave my mother alone without me caring for her. So I'm not worried. And she strolled out of my office. As if it was just an ordinary day. And that is exactly what happened. For the next four years, your wife and mother lived her life normally. The illness did not progress. It did not worsen. She functioned. She cared for her mother. She cared for her family as before. And six weeks ago, as you know, her mother passed away. And the moment that happened, the illness began to advance rapidly. And exactly as high predicted, within six weeks, the disease took her life. She was supposed to live six weeks, and I was right. But she was also right.

4:06She had insurance. Kibbid aim. What a story. The years she spent caring for her mother were not counted in her a lot of time. They did not go into the cheshme of her life. She lived her years. And then she was given four additional years to care for her mother. Parenthetically, when I heard the story, what amazed me most, was that she never told her family what she had told the doctor. She was so certain she would continue living that there was no reason to worry them. If the doctor had not shared it with the family, they would have never known. And that is the message of La Mani Rikrini Mecha. The days a person spends honoring parents and not lost days. They are not the doctor from life. They are added to it. When we invest in our time of Kibbid Ava aim, we are not shortening our lives. We are expanding them. Because in the world of Torah, honoring parents is not a burden.

5:07It is a guarantee. It is insurance. It is a rich soul. And we know. Have a wonderful day. You just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torahanytime.com. You just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torahanytime.com.