An Eretz Yisroeldike Yid
Refuah
Rav Avrohom Dov of Avritch, author of the Bas Ayin and a talmid of Rav Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, was visiting Zhitomir. He went to see the Toldos Aharon, Rav Aharon of Zhitomir, who was also a talmid of Rav Levi Yitzchok, and he found Rav Aharon lying sick in bed.
Rav Aharon was very glad to see him. "I will only be cured when I drink water that came from Eretz Yisroel," he explained. "I know that you are planning to travel there. In fact, your thoughts are already there, and as we both know, wherever a person's thoughts are, that is where the person is. Please, Rav Avrohom, take a mouthful of water and place it in a vessel. It will be just like water that came from Eretz Yisroel. I will drink it and be healed."
And so it was.
The Avritcher wondered how Rav Aharon could possibly know of his deep longing to move to the Holy Land. He had not told his plans to a soul. It was only a thought in his mind, and yet Rav Aharon knew all about it.