Rav Aharon Leib Steinman, 103, has again defied the medical community with a top medical team, but more than that, through the heartfelt prayers of a nation.
MODERN MIRACLES On one hand the ICU seems to be one huge concentration of pain as families wait around nervously hoping and praying for miracles to keep their loved ones alive. But it’s also a place where a medical wonder is taking place day after day: Rav Steinman the light of the Torah world continues to defy statistics and predictions. Here behind his curtain medical tomes are closed (Photos: Yisroel Brooks Flash90)
D awn broke through the large windows of the intensive care unit at the Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak. Behind the closed door in one of the private ICU rooms HaRav Aharon Yehudah Leib (ben Faiga Gittel) Steinman — the 103-year-old Rosh Yeshivah for whom thousands are praying fervently — continued to breathe on his own.
Near the room his confidants are keeping vigil — grandson Rabbi David Shapiro Rabbi Elimelech Firer and Rabbi Eliezer Kaplan of Ezra Umarpeh and talmidim Rabbi Isser Shub Rabbi Yaakov Rosenstein and Rabbi Yitzchak (Itche) Rosengarten. Rav Steinman’s children are still sitting shivah for their sister Rebbetzin Rachel Devorah Berlin a”h who suddenly passed away last Wednesday — although they come too taking off their mourning clothes before entering to see how their father is faring.
The monotonous humming of machines is routine here on the fourth floor. On one hand the ICU seems to be one huge concentration of pain as families wait around nervously hoping and praying for miracles to keep their loved ones alive. But it’s also a place where a medical wonder is taking place day after day: Rav Steinman the light of the Torah world continues to defy statistics and predictions. Here behind his curtain medical tomes are closed.
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