Excerpt from the ongoing translation of Yimay Shmuel Part 1
My father also told me that he heard directly from him, that immediately after the earthquake, there was among the survivors a very great and honored man, one of the leaders of the community. He had an only daughter who was gravely ill, and he had given her medications which were of no help. Everyone knew that by feeling her pulse, Shmuel would know the disease precisely (I heard from my close relative Rabbi Shmuel, brother-in-law of our friend the Ri, who heard from his father, that they said about Shmuel that in the wisdom of the pulse, he was the second Rambam, and knew more than eighty principles of this wisdom). But he would not touch a woman under any circumstances. However, this honored man and his wife beseeched him and wept before him, that he feel their daughter’s pulse, and he acquiesced, and with a thick handkerchief he felt her pulse. He promised them that this was no disease, rather she had become pregnant with a male child, and thus it was.
My father also told me that he heard directly from him, that immediately after the earthquake, there was among the survivors a very great and honored man, one of the leaders of the community. He had an only daughter who was gravely ill, and he had given her medications which were of no help. Everyone knew that by feeling her pulse, Shmuel would know the disease precisely (I heard from my close relative Rabbi Shmuel, brother-in-law of our friend the Ri, who heard from his father, that they said about Shmuel that in the wisdom of the pulse, he was the second Rambam, and knew more than eighty principles of this wisdom). But he would not touch a woman under any circumstances. However, this honored man and his wife beseeched him and wept before him, that he feel their daughter’s pulse, and he acquiesced, and with a thick handkerchief he felt her pulse. He promised them that this was no disease, rather she had become pregnant with a male child, and thus it was.
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