On Erev Shabbos, Mrs. Shulman* was walking by a flower shop and saw beautiful flowers. She felt that it would be very special to buy them for Shabbos. But they were being sold at a price that was beyond her budget. She said to herself, ” Hashem can get me flowers,” and with that, she continued on her way home. Shortly after getting home, she heard a knock on her door. It was her neighbor, who was gifting her with beautiful flowers as a small gesture of appreciation for being such a kind neighbor! Read more: Bitachon #269

R’ Mordechai Martin went to the seamstress to get some clothing finished before Succos. The seamstress told him, “I’m so sorry. I am overloaded. There is no way I can get your stuff done before Yom Tov.” His natural instinct was to push her and try and get her to put him in before Yom Tov so that he’d have his clothing in time. Then he said, “No. I follow the bitachon hotline, and I did my hishtadlus, so I’ll just rely on Hashem.” He said to the seamstress, “Okay, it’s not a problem.” The seamstress was so shocked that he was so understanding of him. She said, “You’re the kind of person I want to do it for before Yom Tov. No problem, I’ll do it for you.” This is a powerful lesson in hishtadlus. People think they need to nudge and bother and pressure, but no. Hishtadlus is saying “Hashem, You don’t want me to do that. I’m leaving it up to You.” That’s the best hishtadlus. Read more: Bitachon #256

Mrs. Goldstein* was making a simcha and didn’t have the money to buy or rent flowers. She called up a flower gemach to borrow flowers. She told them the color she wanted, and they told her, “All the flowers of that color are lent out. We don’t know when they would be coming back.” Mrs. Goldstein said, “I’m going to go to the gemach later today, even though it will be after hours, and I’ll just have bitachon.” She went when the gemach was closed, and just then, someone came to return flowers they had used for their simcha! It was exactly the type of flowers that she wanted!! The Gemach was closed and she walked away with the flowers she needed! Read more: Bitachon #254

Mrs. Klein* went on a trip with her family and they lost their camera. They went to the front desk of the place and reported that they lost their camera. She started explaining to the receptionist that even though it has a lot of sentimental pictures on it, she believes in G-d, everything He does is good, so losing the camera must be good. She added, “I know G-d will help me find it, because He loves me!” The receptionist was amazed and said, “Wow, that’s a good religion. Can you tell me more about this religion? You sound so positive. I want to get involved.” And she told him all about Hashem! Read more: Bitachon #242

Mrs. Rubin,* a teacher in Lakewood, went to the doctor to check her sugar. He said, “It’s very high, it looks like you have diabetes, we’ll do the three hour test just to confirm.” Mrs. Rubin said that it’s her nature to get all nervous and panicky and to call her mother and say it’s so scary and frightening. However, because she heard on ‘A Life with Bitachon’ that Hashem always wants us to be positive and imagine the Yeshua, she decided that the Zechus for her to get a Yeshua would be to not call up her parents and friends that she would have called up, panicking. Instead, she would just stay calm and say, “Hashem, I’m perfectly healthy.” She took the three-hour test, and she was perfectly healthy. Read more: Bitachon #228