After Sha’charis on Shabbos in our Sht’eble in Tampa, an older Israeli, named Asher motioned me over to his seat, waiting for Ki’ddush. We are good friends, and we share the same first name. “Rabbi Asher,” he said, “I want to tell you a story from many years ago, when I lived in Chaifa.”
Mrs. Fried* was with her family in a bungalow colony during the summer. One day, her son was playing in the playground, and he found a necklace. At first, she thought it was a cheap necklace. But when her daughter came home, she said that it was a very expensive necklace. She looked at the
Rabbi Golombeck was in the mood of a delicious, yummy, scrumptious supper. When he came home, his wife told him that she had been by his sister, who was having a special supper since she was having a lot of company. She gave Mrs. Golombeck enough to take home for the whole family! Read more:
R’ Freund* from England has a prepaid phone plan that he pays monthly. The service provider allows a certain amount of minutes for listening to hotlines, but when it comes to the Bitachon Hotline, he can listen as long as he wants! Read more: ‘A Life With Bitachon’
The Rabinowitz family was on their way to Yaffo. While they were on their way to the Kosel, some of the kids were thirsty, so they wanted to stop for a drink. One of the kids was saying, “No, I want to go already!” They stopped anyway to get the kids drinks, and a couple
Yosef Moshe Mizrachi has Baruch Hashem been married for many years and has a large family. He was schmoozing with his wife about how their shidduch came about. She had just finished a parsha right before his name came up. Someone redt the shidduch, but her mother said that they were taking a break. The
Binyamin Kaplan, Rabbi Golombeck’s neighbor, experienced a similar story to the one that Reb Chaim Kanievsky had with the grasshopper that showed up when he had a certain question! Read more: Hashem Fixes A/C!
It was Erev Shavuos, and the Teitelbaum family from Eretz Yisrael realized that their air conditioner wasn’t working. The Teitelbaums were staying home for Shavuos, and they really needed air conditioning for their Simchas Yom Tov! R’ Teitelbaum called the repairman to fix it. The repairman told R’ Teitelbaum, “Hashem must love you! I am
R’ Kahn* travels a lot, sometimes for seven hours straight, without getting out of the car! He said that what keeps him going mentally, emotionally, and physically with all the traveling is turning on Bitachon Hotline songs, and the words and niggunim go into his bones. They change him into a different metzius! Besides for
Rabbi Golombeck had a flood in his basement, and Baruch Hashem he saw so much Chesed and Hashgacha Pratis in how Hashem orchestrated every detail! His tenants had to move out due to the flood, but there was a young family in the same complex who had a baby a couple days earlier, so their
Rabbi Golombeck went to the va’ad of his Rebbe, Rabbi Yehuda Mandel. It was raining, so he wanted to drive. However, his wife needed the van, so she dropped him off. He didn’t know how he would get home. Right when the va’ad ended, he saw a Yid walking towards him. Rabbi Golombeck asked, “Why
Avishai Berkowitz from England was thinking that he would love to have the sefer of the Bais Halevi, the Kuntris on Bitachon. The next day, his chavrusa came to him and gave him a present! That exact sefer! He also heard about a book that came out about Reb Chaim Kanievsky zatzal, and he was
