Mrs. Greenberg, from Brooklyn, NY, every morning starts work at 9:30, and she always makes sure to leave early enough to be able to find parking. She has to circle many, many blocks, for a long time, in order to find parking. One day, she was running very late and she didn’t leave with enough
Mrs. Klein was cooking and baking for Chanuka and for Shabbos. All of a sudden, she realized that her oven was not turning on. Her oven was broken! She didn’t know what to do. She called a specialist who knows how to fix appliances. She explained the problem. She said, “I tried the circuit breaker,
R’ Greenberg said over that money was becoming very tight. He made a cheshbon that in order for him to cover his budget and all his bills and expenses, he needed an extra $10,000. He said to his wife, “Can you please do me a favor? Can you please explain to your boss tomorrow at
Mrs. Rosenberg made homemade pizza for her family for supper. One of her yeshiva bachurim came home later that night. She thought that he would already have eaten supper, but he said that he didn’t eat anywhere. He was hungry, and he also really wanted homemade pizza like everyone else. But there was not a
Morah Goldstein from Eretz Yisrael had to record a lesson on the phone for her class to listen to the next day. She only had time to prepare when it was already after 12:00 midnight. The school had given her a password to use in order to be able leave a recording on their phone
Reb Moshe Blomberg davened every morning in the same shul, so he kept his tefillin bag in shul. This shul is very makpid to lock up when the last person leaves. There is a night kollel there, and there is one man specifically in charge of closing the lights and locking up. There are just
Tzvi Tesser said that whenever he travels and he’s on the phone and passes by a certain spot, there is such poor service that without fail his phone just hangs up on him. He always has to wait for a minute or two and then call back. One day, he was passing by that spot,
Mrs. Rosenbaum had a doctor’s appointment for one of her children at 4:00. They left the house with plenty of time to get to the appointment, but when they got on the road, they realized that they were facing bumper-to-bumper traffic. Nowhere to move, nowhere to go. She knew that this doctor’s office doesn’t play
Mrs. Weiss went to the doctor to check out something that she was concerned about. The doctor said that she should go to the emergency room. When she got there, she saw it was jam-packed. Every seat was taken. She even had to stand. They said to her, “Enjoy your stay! You’re going to be
Mrs. Weiderman’s cleaning lady left her. She was trying to figure out where to find a new cleaning lady. She called up her friend and asked her if she had any extra hours with her cleaning lady, or if she knows of any extra help that she could have. Her friend replied, “Well, that’s what
R’ Miller said that one of his sons was acting out; he was full of energy. He was making a racket; he was making so much noise. He and his wife tried to calm him down. They were trying all different kinds of hishtadlus and different methods. They gave him positive attention, they tried ignoring
R’ Greenberg was having a lot of guests for Shabbos. However, he didn’t have an extra penny to his name. He needed 400 dollars to make Shabbos. He was trying to figure out where in the world he was going to come up with 400 dollars from. He didn’t have a penny in his bank
