The Wonders of Harav Yitzchack Kadouri

118 to have seen the Beniyahu ben Yehoyada, the general of King David.” The Rabbanit was dumbstruck, amazed at the revela- tions that the Rav merited having. The humility of the Rav Harav Naki shlita, relates, “When we were children, we would see the Rav walk every day and slowly make his way to the mikveh in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. Ours was an older, more established neighborhood of Jerusa- lem, accustomed to older religious men, and we children would stand in line and ask the Rav to bless us as he passed by. Naturally, the Rav would put his hands on our heads and bless each child.” Rav Naki adds, “When the Rav would ¿nish blessing each one of us, we could feel the holiness of his bles- sings. This spurred us to come back for more, and so the scene repeated itself on a daily basis. And naturally the Rav consented without any opposition on his part.” Spiritual eyesight A silversmith in the Bucharim neighborhood was experiencing severe ¿nan- cial loss. His son witnessed how every piece of silver his father tried to weld would melt like lead. He took a ring off the rack, one that a client had recently ordered, and it just disintegrated under his hands. As customers relied on his father to repair artifacts or create jewelry and goblets, the inexplicable pheno- menon meant total disaster for his business. Out of despair and misery, he vi- sited the Rav. The Rav told him, “You have a source of impurity in your store. Remove it and everything will revert to normal, with the help of G-d.” The silversmith searched his store, thinking, “Perhaps the Rav meant that there are indecent pictures on some of the jewelry. Perhaps…” He couldn’t ¿nd any- thing remotely related to the Rav’s words. He tried another piece of jewelry, and again the same story. Not knowing what to do, he went back to the Rav. The Rav, though, persisted. There is ritual impurity in the store, remove it immediately. The man went back to the store and turned it upside-down, loo- king for anything that could be the source of the problem. Finally, in a corner,