In 5752, several weeks before the Rebbe suffered his first stroke, a middle-aged woman from Jerusalem joined the thousands of men and women waiting to receive a dollar and a blessing. A childless descendant of a long line of distinguished Rabbis, she asked for the Rebbe’s blessing that she be granted children.

The Rebbe responded with a smile and gave her three dollars: one for herself and two for the children to be born. Her joy could not be contained.

She returned home, put the dollars in a safe place, and waited.

She waited almost five years. In the interim, she shared the grief over the events of 27 Adar and 3 Tammuz. And she had her own private grief, for the Rebbe’s blessing had not been fulfilled.

Then, when she was nearly 50, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. At the bris, her husband told the story of the dollars the Rebbe had given for his children, and promised that they would receive them when they came of age.