36 | APRIL 7 • 2022 

PASSOVER

With great enthusiasm, the 
Pozepov family took on differ-
ent mitzvos, kosher, Shabbos, 
mikvah … But sadly, soon 
after that, the young Pozepov 
father was diagnosed with 
cancer and given only a 5% 
chance of survival.”
Distraught, the family 
turned to their friend, Rabbi 
Mendel Baumgarten. Here 
they were taking on all these 
mitzvot in order to become 
closer to God and this is how 
He was repaying them?
Baumgarten had a private 
audience with the Lubavitcher 
Rebbe soon afterward and 
told him about Pozepovs. 
“The Rebbe opened a 
drawer in his desk, took out 
a whole shmurah matzah 
that had clearly been there 
since Pesach and said, ‘This 
is the bread of healing, let 
him wash, say hometzi, eat it 
and bentch afterwards.’ Rabbi 
Baumgarten passed on the 
message to and he followed 
the Rebbe’s instructions,” said 
Rabbi Bergstein. “I saw Mr. 
Pozepov a few years later; he 
had surpassed the doctor’s 
predictions. He was at his 
children’s weddings; he lived 
to see many grandchildren.” 
So even though Rabbi 
Bergstein had never actually 
heard of the custom of put-
ting shmurah matzah over 
doorways, the concept was 
certainly not foreign to him.
“This special matzah which 
is made just for the sake of the 
mitzvah has power to give us 
all kinds of blessings, including 
cures,” Rabbi Bergstein said 
with a big smile. “Does it for 
sure always work? I know it 
did at least once.” 

— Rochel Burstyn, contributing writer

For more information or if you would 
like to have shmurah matzah, contact 
Rabbi Bergstein at (248) 613-1809.

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