Dream On

POWER OF DREAMS Was I cured because of the heartfelt tefillos of so many — my family friends colleagues students? Did Hashem heal me because of zechus avos? And what about my dream? Did Hashem accept my desire my longing to prepare for Shabbos His Shabbos and mercifully command my bone marrow to begin to regenerate?

T here’s a robber in your closet. You jump out of bed and start running down a dark corridor the robber in hot pursuit. You open a door and suddenly you’re in a wing of your house you never knew existed. Oh the decorating possibilities! One room you can turn into the guest room you desperately need. And wait — a music room complete with the piano you’ve always longed for.

Now you see the back door. You open it but something’s weird. This is not your backyard. You’re in a beautiful meadow. You venture into fields of colorful flowers when you spot a figure approaching in the distance. This can’t be good. You get an awful feeling in your mouth. Yikes your teeth are crumbling! The figure gets larger and — it’s your old high school principal! Uh-oh time to start running again. But something is weighing you down. There’s a cast on your leg! You keep limping along but you trip on a rock and land alongside the edge of a cliff. The casted leg is hanging over the side and it’s pulling you down down…

You wake in a cold sweat one leg hanging over the side of your bed.