צא

And from that hour onward we did not stir from him. And that night — which was the night belonging to Friday, Erev Sukkos — I stayed the night with him. And that night he arranged a will before me: to give three hundred red coins [gold ducats] to his daughter Chaya — may she live — and the kesuba [marriage contract settlement] to his wife, and so on. And he said: and so on. And he said to me: "There is yet more to say." I answered him: "You need not say this — for you yourself will marry off your daughter." (For I did not wish to hear or take into my heart at all what he was speaking of regarding his passing.) He answered and said: "With Hashem Blessed be He all things are possible." (For such was his way in holiness — that he was never insistent about any matter with any person.) And he said: "These three years I have lived by miracle." (That is: the three years from the day this illness of the cough seized him until now — which span three years.)