The death from a serious illness at the age of 16 of a student at the Ponivez Yeshiva for Young People, Eliyahu Stefansky, son of the head of the Torah B'Tefara Yeshiva, the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Stefansky, caused great shock and sorrow among his friends and family.
When the Hegrail Steinman was told about his passing and his immense perseverance even while on his deathbed, he expressed the verse about him: "My uncle went down to his garden to graze in the gardens and to pick roses. And according to the Midrash, God, blessed be He, saw the attempts of the young men of Israel, and went down to his garden to pick roses. They are the good children - roses.".
And he added: "Everything the Blessed One does is for the benefit of humanity, everything is only for the good, because if not for the good, what is the benefit in it? We find that all the troubles are only for the good, everything is for the good...""
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When the Hegrai'l was told that the yeshiva students, and especially his friends, were very upset by his passing, and asked what they could do to strengthen themselves, he said: "If they are upset by his death, that in itself is already a strengthening, because unfortunately, recently the death of a yeshiva has become a trivial matter for people, and they are not waking up. And indeed, a good reception for strengthening, among young people certainly - talk, talk, and talk.".
When they said that the friends who had accepted various kabbalahs and hoped for his healing were now broken when they saw the extent of the rift, the Grail quoted the Gemara Rosh Hashanah, page 16a, which states that when, God forbid, there is a sentence with an oath, nothing is of any use. "But one should know that nothing is lost, and if the things did not benefit his healing, then now this itself has become a merit for the elevation of his soul, since all these mitzvot were done for his sake, and it is a very great merit for him.".
