Singer Gad Elbaz has shared the story of how he managed to return to the United States, where his family lives, after his lawyers warned him he had no chance of renewing his visa.
Elbaz explained in a video that for nine years he had been entering and leaving the US on an artist visa, which he renewed every three years. When the time came to renew it again, his legal team told him the application would be denied and advised him to remain in Israel for a full year before submitting a new request.
With his entire family and life in America, Elbaz turned to his rav, Rav Shlomo Yehuda Bari, better known as the Yanuka, and laid out the situation. He expected the rav to reassure him, but instead, Elbaz recounted, the rav asked him how his father was, and then how his mother was.
"I go by my rav's advice," Elbaz said, describing his decision to submit the application despite the legal warning. After his interview, he was told: "Okay, we have good news, you can enter."
"A miracle beyond nature!" Elbaz said. He is now traveling to the Chabad Kinus Hashluchim and plans to continue his work spreading Yiddishkeit in the United States.
