הריון ולידה קלה

There was a young teenage girl who went to the Rebbe for a dollar. When she passed by, as the Rebbe handed her the dollar he said "הריון ולידה קלה".

Now, if there are any of you who don’t know what that means, I’ll let you in on a secret: The girl didn’t either know what the words meant. In fact, she was surprised that the Rebbe had spoken to her in Hebrew, when all she understood was English (this was because she didn’t understand what the words meant; - had she any idea what they meant, she would have had something to be much much more surprised about than the Rebbe’s choice of language!)

She went over to Rabbi Leibel Groner, and asked him what the Rebbe had said to her. But he was, understandably, uncomfortable about sharing with her precisely what the Rebbe had told her, so he merely informed her that the Rebbe had given her a brocho.

Years, in fact many years, passed. The girl grew up, got married, and started growing a fine Chassidishe family. One day her husband decided to get her a gift: he would purchase for her all of the videos of her with the Rebbe. He contacted JEM, and made the necessary arrangements.

After awhile, he contacted them again to finalize the deal. “We have all of the videos that you requested, except for one”, they informed him. “Why except for one?”, the yungerman asked. “There is one video that we can’t release, the Rebbe discusses sensitive, personal matters, and it is confidential”, he was told.

But the husband was adamant: he must have all of the videos of his wife. He did whatever was necessary (probably got her involvement or consent), and got the video released. Now, after all these years, the woman was finally able to watch the video and understand what the Rebbe was saying to her.

At around that time, this woman was, in fact, expecting, and there were complications. The doctors instructed her to abort, in order to save her life. But she decided that the video, the words that the Rebbe had spoken to her that she’d finally understood, were the Rebbe’s directive to her. And she continued the pregnancy.

And it turned out (how could it be otherwise!) that it ended up being (from there on) a הריון ולידה קלה, exactly as the Rebbe had said!