A Dream-Driven Debt Payment: A Journey Beyond

Mrs. Ella Kliger, of blessed memory, passed away a few weeks ago, and just before her passing, she asked one of her sons to settle her debt with a dentist located on Shmuel Hanavi Street in Jerusalem.

"My mother passed away on Shabbat Parashat Beha'alotecha 5780, and the funeral was held on Motzei Shabbat Kodesh," shares her son, Rabbi Moshe Kliger, a resident of Beitar Illit. "On Sunday, I woke up from an afternoon nap due to terrible tooth pain, it felt as if my head was about to explode. 'Moshe,' I hear my late mother say, 'You're sleeping peacefully, and I owe the dentist.'"

"I immediately went out of the room to find the phone number for the dentist," continues the son. "For four months, my mother lay in the hospital; during the week of her passing, she spoke to me about money kept at home and requested that we give it to charity, and that 200 shekels from it be used to pay the dentist."

"With the intense tooth pain, I realized there was no avoiding it. It had to be dealt with immediately – I called the dentist's office urgently, causing him to leave a patient in the middle of treatment, and asked him to check his records to see if there was any debt in my mother's name, Ella Kliger z'l."

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The dentist was surprised: 'Your mother was always very organized, always paid on time.' Nevertheless, he checked and confirmed that indeed, 'there is a small debt of 200 shekels.'

I asked him to forgive the delay, assuring him the matter would be resolved immediately. I quickly called my son studying in a yeshiva in the 'Beit Yisrael' neighborhood and asked him to go to the dentist's clinic on Shmuel Hanavi Street and pay the debt as soon as possible."

"Fifteen minutes after I woke up with that sharp pain, the debt was paid. And magically, the tooth pain immediately vanished."

"My mother was fortunate that the day after her passing, she was already taking care of a financial obligation from above," Rabbi Kliger sums up. "This act is a reminder from the heavenly court about the seriousness of the sin of theft."

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