These couples traveled with heavy hearts to a distant mountain in the north of Eretz Yisrael, and trace their personal miracles back to that fateful journey
Five women share their miracle stories.
Shimon Manoach turned five last Erev Pesach. His parents waited for over nine years for children — long years full of tefillah and yearning, with no way of knowing when they would end.
“My husband was always very connected to Rabi Shimon,” Esther Manoach relates. “We always went to Meiron for Shabbos Chanukah and at other opportunities throughout the year. During our long years of waiting, we davened endlessly, tried many procedures and also various segulos. At a certain point, we both traveled to Meiron and made our promise that if we’d have a son we’d name him Shimon.
“A number of years passed since our promise. You don’t set time limits for Hashem. Yet, I certainly feel that our yeshuah was connected to our promise. The promise itself is half the yeshuah! It gives chizuk. Once I made my vow, I was sure that we would eventually have a child.
“My husband knows Rav Shechter and once traveled with him to Meiron for Shabbos. In Meiron, the rav gave my husband a brachah and said that we’d have a yeshuah very soon. That type of promise certainly falls under the category of: ‘A tzaddik decrees and Hashem fulfills.’
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