True Medicine

Excerpt from the ongoing translation of Yimay Shmuel Part 1

My father, master and teacher (Rabbi Asher Yehezkel) told me that he heard from Rabbi Shmuel’s holy mouth, that one time during the High Holy Days there were many diseases in the city, may G-d have mercy, and on Rosh ha Shana before the blowing of the shofar, when he went to the mikveh, many non-Jews were gathered in the street in front of the synagogue – men and women with sick children, to ask him for treatment, and he was occupied at the time with (eshtonotav – translate), in awe of the momentous Day of Judgment, and he heard nothing of what they asked of him, rather he trusted in G-d, the true Healer, as he passed through the crowd, and told this one to drink soda water, and that one milk, and so on with simple answers, and he escaped them, and knew nothing of what happened to them. But after several days, he was brought gifts of many packages of tobacco. Then he knew that everyone had been healed with the help of G-d.