Baruch Gordon had a power outage. The electricity company told them that the electricity would be restored at about 11:30. He said, “That is with teva! With Bitachon it will go on before 8:30!” At 8:06, the power went on! Read more: Bitachon Babysitter
R’ Taub was owed a lot of money. He kept reminding the person who owed the money, but the person was not paying him back. At first, it was very frustrating and upsetting. Then he said, “Okay, forget it. The point of having money is so that I should have menuchas hanefesh and simchas hachayim.
Miri* was supposed to have a test the next day, but she was busy helping her mother, and she didn’t have time to study. She did not want to get a bad mark, so she said, “Hashem, You know it’s not up to the teacher to give a test, it’s up to You! The next
R’ Roth* wanted to get his Tallis cleaned for Pesach. He went to the cleaners, but they told him that they were not doing anything else before Pesach. He left and said, “Hashem, it’s not up to them, it’s up to You!” When he got home, they called him back and said, “We thought about
R’ Roth,* a chashuve Chassidshe Yid from Monsey, said that his son’s long peyos got tangled in a fan. Everyone was trying to help him get it out. It was so painful, and they didn’t know what to do! After five minutes of trying, R’ Roth said, “One second. We didn’t say Hakol Yachol! Who
Mrs. Greenberg* was having company, and her house was flying. She didn’t have the strength to clean it up. On top of that, she also had to make supper, and her kids are very active, so she had to be busy with them. She was so overwhelmed and didn’t know what to do. She said,
Mrs. Stern* went outside to wait for the school bus. She realized that the bus had already left! She was thinking, “Uh-no, that means I missed the bus; what’s going to be?” Then she said, “Hashem can provide me with a ride in many ways. I’m going to have bitachon.” Just then, the bus came
Mrs. Weitz* was looking for an empty apartment for her son and his family for Shabbos. She made many phone calls to all different people that she heard were going away for Shabbos, but none of the apartments were available. She thought to herself, “What should I do? I did so much hishtadlus, but I
R’ Bloch’s clicker for his car was not working. He tried this and that and then he said to himself that he must need a new clicker. He was about to go get a new clicker, but then he said to himself, “One second. Maybe I just need Emunah and Bitachon. Do I think you
Rabbi Golombeck’s nephew, Shimon Stein, missed his bus to cheder one morning. He lives very far from his cheder and his parents weren’t home. He was trying to figure out how in the world he was going to get to cheder. Then he said, “One second. Who takes me to cheder every morning? It’s not
R’ Kaufman has a Shabbos mode oven that he was never able to figure out, so every week, his wife does it. This past week, his wife forgot to do it. She had bentched licht already, so it was too late. He had to do it, but he had no idea how! He said, “Hashem,
R’ Klein,* a therapist was working with a child who had many, many delays. The parents weren’t seeing any progress. They said to the therapist, “We don’t understand. You’ve been working with our child for such a long time, but he’s still in the same place. There’s no progress and he still has so many
