Does a blessing or promise from a righteous person really help?
I remember once hearing stories from the righteous about a man who had a headache and the doctors couldn’t find anything, so he went to some important rabbi, who told him he had a brain tumor and also told him exactly where. When the doctors came to operate, they saw the tumor and saved the man.
I remember being amazed at first, but I asked myself, if the rabbi can save so many people, why doesn’t he work in a hospital full-time? After all, there is a commandment from the Torah to save a person who is about to die (Leviticus 19:15): “You shall not stand for the blood of your neighbor.”
And likewise all the other supernatural abilities with which our sages were blessed, if they were real, our world would be much better.
Is there a question here?
Yes. Do rabbis really have supernatural powers in their blessings?
As far as I understand, no.
Rabbis do not have it, only Rebbes and Avot possess superpowers.
And the reason they do not spend their time in hospitals is because if they did so, then it would be clear to all that God exists and the powers that have graced the righteous. Then there would be no more infidels and atheists in the world because everyone would see with all their senses the reality of God in action. And if this happens, then there would be no temptation to commit transgressions and the free choice to choose evil would be negated, and this goes against the whole purpose of this world, which is the corridor in which we must endure difficult trials in order to be worthy of entering the parlor that is the world to come without any nehaha or sufah.
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