The miracle worker
Kretchenev- Hassidic hub
The Holy Tzadik Admor Rabbi David Moshe Rosenbaum of Kretchnev b.1925 was the son and successor of the Rabbi Eliezer Zev Rosenbaum and the son-in-law of the Rabbi Haim Mordechai Rosenbaum of Nadvorna. After escaping Auschwitz, he returned to Sighet and was appointed Admor. He moved to Israel in 1947 and settled in Jerusalem, then in Rehovot. In 1969 he travelled to visit his ancestors’ graves in Romania, collapsed and died. His body was brought back to Israel and buried there. He was known as a miracle worker, curing people with his own methods and prescriptions that would be honored in pharmacies around Rehovot. A rabbi once told a story when one of his family members consumed the medicine from the Rebbe from Kretchnev and was cured after the doctors have failed. The mystery of the cure created an awe on how a young Rebbe succeeded, never having studied medicine, to cure a person. The reply was that sometimes the rabbi’s blessing helps more than the medicine he gives.
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