סיפורים קצרים – הגה"צ הרב ברלנד שליט"א – חצי מליון בלי פדיון

## The Prolonged Struggle with Heavy Debts
Yosef Buchbut, an avreich in the "Shuvu Banim" yeshiva, shares a moving personal story about an open miracle he experienced. For seven long years, he and his wife carried a heavy burden of debt amounting to about half a million shekels. Despite their attempts to pay every month, salvation was not in sight, and lawyers claimed they could not help them due to their young age and ability to work.

## The Segulah and the Promise of the tzaddik
The change began when a promise from the Gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a reached their ears: whoever recites the "Tikkun HaKlali" 52 times in honor of the Rav's birthday will merit to see salvations. Yosef and his wife decided to take this task upon themselves and recited the Tikkun HaKlali 52 times during a single Shabbat.

## The Surprising Turning Point and the Meeting with the Rav
Already on the following Sunday, things began to move. Yosef's uncle, a lawyer by profession, called on his own initiative and offered to help with the case without requesting state assistance. Ahead of the court hearing, they were told they would need to raise a sum of about 30,000-40,000 shekels to reach a settlement.

On the holiday of Purim, Yosef merited to meet Rav Berland. The Rav blessed him and said: "Whoever merited to come to me... he will emerge from all debts, he has no debts, no loans." Yosef, wanting to verify the matter, asked if he should give a "pidyon nefesh" instead of the amount required to pay in court. The Rav's answer was decisive: "Nothing, nothing, you have already emerged cleared."

## The Open Miracle in Court
The end was beyond all imagination. At the court hearing, Yosef and his wife received a complete discharge of their debts without the need to pay a single shekel. "It is one in a million that such a thing happens," Yosef concludes with emotion, "It is a huge miracle, Baruch Hashem."