How do you prevent diseases? Rabbi Steinman: Eat breakfast bread

May 14, 2014   

A Jew suffering from several types of illnesses, such as a herniated disc and more, asked the Grail Steinman this week: Is there a good kabbalah he can accept upon himself, in order to prevent himself from illnesses and to recover from them? The Rosh Yeshiva's answer was: "Be sure to eat breakfast. As explained in the Gemara Bava Metzia, page 17b, the virtue of a morning meal is as great as a cup of water." The Grail's associate, who also serves as his companion, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schneider, testifies: "Several times our Rebbe instructed me not to set out on a journey - even when going out to perform a mitzvah - without first eating a morning meal." Rabbi Schneider also tells about the Grail's attitude to dream interpretation: "Our Rabbi tells us that the Rabbi of Brisk ztk"l would do a lot of dream interpretation, and immediately after our Rabbi became a bar mitzvah, he would ask that the three of us, our Rabbi's father, and another neighbor who was supervising the Talmud Torah, join him in doing a dream interpretation for him. Recently, our Rabbi, who said this, brought an explanation for why he was so particular about dreams, since his little daughter - about seven years old - had passed away, and before her death he had a dream, and Mini then began to be very afraid of dreams. And when the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Shapira asked our Rabbi if he had ever done a dream interpretation during his lifetime, our Rabbi thought and said: Maybe once! And our Rabbi said that on the 15th of Nisan, before the passing of Maran Chazo"a ztk"l - more than seven months earlier - he had a dream about something like that.".