Two chassidic bochurim in their 20s went to Harav Chaim Kanievsky about a month ago to request brachos for shidduchim, BeChadrei Chareidim reported Wednesday.
One of the bochurim also told Rav Kanievsky that he has three older single sisters and asked for brachos for them as well. Rav Kanievsky gave them brachos and also told the bochurim to learn Mesechta Bava Basra within one day.
The two bochurim returned to Yerushalayim and stayed up all night learning Bava Basra as the Gadol Hador had instructed.
A source told BeChadrei that Rav Chaim’s segulah was fulfilled even faster than expected, and the H. family of Yerushalayim celebrated a series of simchas one after the other.
The first sister became engaged two weeks ago, the second sister got engaged last week and the third sister became engaged on Tuesday evening to her brother’s friend who accompanied him to Rav Chaim and learned Bava Basra with him.
The family is now eagerly awaiting a yeshua for their son as well, who devotedly learned the masechta for the sake of his sisters.
Someone close to Rav Kanievsky explained why the Gadol asked them to learn Bava Basra: “At times, people say that it will take them a long time to finish Bava Basra. So Rav Chaim answers them that it’s possible to finish it in one day. And the bochurim believed in the bracha with all their hearts and took it seriously. They finished it in one day and saw a yeshuah.”
Harav Chaim writes in his sefer Orchos Yosher in sha’ar Ruach Hakodesh that even in our days – as much as a person believes in a tzadik’s bracha – that it is how it is fulfilled.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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16 Responses
Assuming someone learns for 23 hours of a day (no eating or sleeping, and about an hour for davening), one would have to complete each daf in under 8 minutes.
There is something fishy with this story.
Bava Basra contains 349 amudim. Even learning 24 hours straight with no breaks for resting, eating or davening would still require each amud to be learned in only 4 minutes. In actual practice the average time per amud would have to be even less than this.
Even someone who is doing chazarah for hundredth time would find it very difficult to read and properly understand an amud of gemara in this time, let alone keep up the pace for an entire day. And needless to say speed-reading the gemara without understanding it is worthless (although for the Tanach there is merit in that too).
2 Questions:-
1) Does this Seguloh also work, if read English of Bobo-Bathro [be it Soncino or Steinzalt or Artscroll]?
2) Does this Seguloh also work with Bobo Bathro Yerushalmi?
3) Does this Seguloh work with any other Tractate?
“and the third sister became engaged on Tuesday evening to her brother’s friend who accompanied him to Rav Chaim and learned Bava Basra with him.”
I love you Hashem.
How is that physically possible ? 176 blatt in 24 hours? That’s 13.6 minutes a blatt.
Oy vey!
That Chasidishe shidduch crisis again!
I guess they didn’t listen to the people running around claiming that only Litvish have a shidduch crisis. Maybe those guys should publish their ads and letters in the Chasidic press telling them that they don’t have a shidduch crisis, only others do.
Facts can be stubborn things, hard to argue with though.
B”H they went to the Litvishe Sar HaTorah Rav Chaim shlit”a to put things in order.
They knew the right address.
They maybe learned mishnayos. That is still difficult but a lot more possible
מי כעמך ישראל. What truly believing Jews… I mean YIdden, we are.
I see a wonderful possibility here – “Daf Daka”. This can be a project for Agudath Israel in America, in which Yidden learn one Daf each minute. They can have a סיום הש”ס every few weeks.
I was told that Brochos is longer than Baba Basra in word count.
So counting the pages is not an accurate count. (Lots of tosfos)
Perhaps the YWN news desk can clarify this with their source?
its very simple how it was done.
It was split up amongst the bochurim. at least 3 ways. Its much more viable that way.
It could be that the two bochurim divided it up and each learned half.
They might also have included others in dividing it up.
The two bochurim learn together with my son in a certain yeshivah in Yerushalayim and I heard the story from him a few weeks ago. The facts are slightly different from those presented here but still wonderfully inspirational:
2 bochurim went to Rav Chaim. 1 had 3 older single sisters; the other one was “in turn.” The first bochur was told to learn Bava Basra in one day and his 3 sisters would soon all be engaged. The 2nd bochur got the brachah “Bu”h” (brachah v’hatzlachah). (Understandably, he was quite disappointed…)
They returned to yeshivah and the next day, bochur 1 sat and learned through all of Bava Basra and it took him 8 hours. The very next day, a shidduch suggestion came along for the oldest of the 3 sisters. A few days later was the tannaim. Then a few days ago, the 2nd girl got engaged to none other than the 2nd bochur. The 3rd girl will b’ezras Hashem soon have her yeshuah.
100% reliable story.
Yehuda26, see the math in the comments above. 8 hours comes to less than 1.5 minutes per amud. What kind of learning is that?
Perhaps your son could ask the bochur concerned how he accomplished this incomprehensible feat, and you could relay his response back to us.
yehuda26
“bochur 1 sat and learned through all of Bava Basra and it took him 8 hours”
“100% reliable story.”
You’ll have to explain more.
If Gemara, you’ve just sped up the pace from a blatt every 8 min. to a blatt in under 3 minutes. Not making the story more credible.
If mishnayos, then please say so clearly.