Q. Dear Rov and friend; As we spoke before, I had an accident last week. I tripped and fell into the street when stepping out from my home, hurt my head on the sidewalk and started bleeding. I was rushed to the nearest hospital, and then a true miracle happened. The prominent and also well connected physician treating me examined carefully the sides of my head also and noticed a lump on the left side on the back.
He urged me to have a biopsy done immediately, as I was already in the hospital and he pulled some strings to do so. It showed that it was a malignant life-threatening cancerous tumor already beginning metastases. The good doctor urged me to stay in the hospital and again with Hashem's and his help it was promptly removed. Do I have to recite Hagomel this Shabbat when I return home and go to shul, for the two miracles that happened to me?
A. Surprisingly Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion is that no 'Hagomel' bracha is required. However, great recognition to Hashem's favors should be done and not only good deeds should be carried out but a Seudas Hoda'a is recommended.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a.
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