"False dreams will speak", it is said in the sources, but what if there are those who are right. A question following such a dream was addressed to the ultra-Orthodox halakhic adjudicator Rabbi Yitzhak Zilberstein and brought up a story that is stirring up the ultra-Orthodox sector these days.
The following story was brought up in the halakhic file 'Way the Pillars and their Hoops', according to which one of the residents of the settlements in the Gaza Strip envelope is a Jew who has come to repentance, this Jew was close to one of the tzaddikim of the generation who passed away in recent years [the name of the Jew and the name of his rabbi were not shown in the file for several reasons that are kept with them, but the names were placed at Rabbi Zilberstein's door]. The same rabbi instructed the Jew to continue living in the settlement where he lived before he had come to repentance.
"Leave the place right now, it's a dangerous place"
On the night of Simchat Torah, which fell on that Black Shabbat, that Jew saw in his dream that his rabbi revealed himself to him and ordered him to take his wife and children and leave the place immediately, this was a place of danger, he warned. The Jew told the rabbi that usually he is not frightened by dreams and does not pay attention to them, what is more, it was Shabbat and a holiday and it did not occur to him to desecrate the Shabbat. The Jew turned over to the other side of his bed and went back to sleep.
But again his rabbi came to him and began to strangle him as he said, while shouting "Leave the place now, it's a dangerous place". That Jew woke up from his sleep drenched in sweat, he still felt the stranglehold on his neck and decided together with his wife to get up and run away. They gathered the children and left the settlement.
The rabbi's ruling: He did well to desecrate the Sabbath by virtue of the law of preserving the soul
After they learned of the terrible massacre that took place there, it became clear that it was a true dream. Now he turned to Rabbi Zilberstein with a question. Did he do right to desecrate the Sabbath on because of such a dream or not.
In the file, he brought the words of the rabbi who extended and discussed this issue, while mentioning the words of the Hida in his book 'Shem HaGdolim' in which he told a similar story, when the father of the Ra'ash (Rabbi Asher ben Yehiel) appeared to his widow in a night dream on Shabbat night and ordered her to flee from her place, a place of danger, and her life was saved from a massacre that happened there. At the end of his words, Rabbi Zilberstein decided that according to all the signs given by our sages, it was a true dream, and without a doubt, he was right to get up and go to a safe place by virtue of the law of preserving the soul.
