A Jew who is currently an old man living in New York related the following story about himself:
When he was 55 years old, he began to suffer from cancer, Heaven forefend, and they gave up on him. He was skin and bones. On Pesach his children gathered around him – they expected that at any moment [he would die]! They hired a watchman from the hevra kadisha [=burial society] because they saw that these were his final hours.
In the middle of the night, the watchman awoke and told the son of the sick Jew: “I dreamt that the Bluzhever Rebbe came to me in the dream and ordered me to give the sick person a drink from the Cup of Elijah.” Initially, the son did not want to hear of it, for how could you give a sick person wine to drink?! But afterward, he reconsidered – what difference does it make, they anyway gave up on their father – so he granted his permission.
Thus, they gave the Jew to drink from the Cup of Elijah and he had a speedy recovery. He is now in his eighties and lives in New York. (Both the Jew and the watchman were Bluzhever hasidim).
I.F.
Ya’akov Teitelbaum