Hertzel Kosashvili, a reporter for Israel’s Chabad news website COL.org.il, has been blessed with a daughter after many years of treatments. He now shares the story of how his second child was born this past year:
Celebrating Simchas Torah this past year in the Chabad shul in Lod, where I daven, I went around and asked many of the yungeleit when was the last time they went to the Rebbe.
The responses I got were troubling, to say the least. Some said it had been 10 to 15 years since the last time they were in New York. Others said the last time they were there was before they got married.
This was disturbing to me and I decided to do something about it.
There and then, I announced that I plan to arrange a group to travel to the Rebbe sometime during the upcoming year.
On Shabbos Bereishis 5779, we farbrenged and spoke more about making the trip and right after Shabbos, I got to work.
I had never arranged a group, so I started calling around to find out what I needed to do to put the trip together. I called a friend, who is a travel agent, to figure out when the tickets are cheap in the middle of the winter.
I then reached out to Rabbi Michoel Tayeb to find out when he is available and if he could come with us as a mashpia to farbreng with the group.
It turned out that the time that he was available wouldn’t work with the prices. Everyone had a different time that worked for them. In short, 3 days passed and we couldn’t even decide on a date.
Eventually, I told my wife that it’s too difficult to arrange the trip and it seems that I won’t be doing it this year. It’s too hard to take guys that haven’t been there for so long, I told her. My wife took me to task on this, quoting how I had told her that the Rebbe gave special attention to groups and those who brought groups of people to 770.
“It’s the best gift you can give the Rebbe, to bring yungeleit who haven’t been by the Rebbe in so many years. Don’t lose the opportunity,” she said.
Hearing my wife’s strong words, I changed my mind and decided that I would do everything I could to make the trip happen.
The following week we went for a certain fertility treatment. On the morning of Chof Cheshvan, as I was preparing to travel to New York for work (I was photographing the Kinus Hashluchim for COL.org.il), the doctor called to notify me that my wife had become pregnant again. The due date for the birth was around Gimmel Tammuz!
In the end, 30 members of the Chabad community in Lod took part in the trip to the Rebbe.
We spent Shabbos at the Ohel, davened in 770, visited the Rebbe’s house, and all in all it was an amazing spiritual success.
Just a few weeks ago, 2 weeks before Gimmel Tammuz, our son Menachem Mendel was born.
There is no question to me that this bracha was in the merit of the group that I brought to the Rebbe. May we continue to share good news.
VIDEO:
Hertzel Kosashvili tells the story of the miraculous birth of his first child (Hebrew)
WOW!! The Rebbe “lebt”.
May we merit to see him more reveled with the coming of Moshiach now!!
we love this website
pls keep bringing us such beautiful stories
love that story and the Emunah on the part of both his friend and the couple. More Simchas by all Yidden
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Maybe post which doctor helped be the shliach might help another couple waiting to have children