Professor Ilan Eldar, a member of the Languages faculty at Hebrew University and one of Israel’s most influential figures on the Hebrew language, recently battled cancer for over a year, and thank G-d, recovered.
In an interview with the newspaper “Yediot Hamifratz” Professor Eldar said, “The people of Chabad prayed for me, and gave me a dollar from the Rebbe. So we can’t say that my recovery wasn’t also thanks to them…”
“When I became sick, one day the guys from Chabad in Kiryat Motzkin gave me a dollar from the Lubavitcher Rebbe,” said Eldar. “He blessed me, and prayed for me.”
In the interview, Eldar described how he underwent a bone marrow transplant as well as treatments, which made it hard for him to work and sit through meetings.
He also recounted that he began saying the phrases “Boruch Hashem” and “Be’ezras Hashem,” even though he never used to say them before.
“I am totally secular, but since my illness I began saying it,” he said.
and cancer runs in the other direction!
baruch hashem!