The Wonders of Harav Yitzchack Kadouri

69 Give me children… More than being just a genius, his heart was extremely receptive, over- Àowing with compassion for each and every single person who visited him. The Rav would cry and fast for days for all the barren parents who came for a blessing to have children. He supplicated the Al-mighty and prayed until they merited giving birth. It was hard for him to bear the pain of the women who had dif¿culty conceiving. He would especially pray during the week of the Torah portion of Terumah . He would say the blessings on a speci¿c number of challot , and distribute the remnants to these women, many who subsequently experienced miracles. Harav Moshe Cohen shlita, the Rabbi of the Nachlat Yitzchak synagogue, says, “Women would come from all corners of Israel in order to receive even a small crumb from those challot . Whichever barren mother ate from those blessed challot would conceive in the coming year.” There were also spe- ci¿c amulets that the Rav would give to women lacking children, and the Rav would instruct them what to do. In the privacy of his own heart, the Rav would continue to cry and pray for their request, until they were answered from Heaven and became pregnant. Thousands of women did indeed merit having children after receiving advice and blessings from the Rav. Many of them who had boys, out of tremendous gratitude for the Rav, asked him to be the Sandek (one who holds the baby while the circumcision is performed) . They then proceeded to call the baby, ‘Yitzchak,’ after the tzaddik Rav Yitzchak Kadouri, in whose merit they attributed their new- born son. To know what happened… The Rav would record whoever came to visit him, whether it was for a blessing, an amulet, or some other remedy, in his notebook, in his neat and The Mousayof synagogue where the Rav prayed for dozens of years