Avromi, a 10 year old boy from Lakewood, New Jersey, saw his father leave the Shabbos table and go to bed because he was feeling sick. Avromi immediately started saying Tehillim for his father, having in mind his uncle as well, who was very sick. By the time his father woke up, he was feeling much better and Avromi had already completed 100 Kapitlach!! [Heard from Avromi’s father] Read more: “Hashem’s Many Messengers!”
Yaakov, a 6-year-old boy from Spring Valley, New York, was playing outside with his bike, when suddenly he saw Hatzalah trucks turning into his street. Yaakov did not run to investigate what was happening. Instead, he went into his house to say tehillim for the person that needed emergency help! What makes this story even more special, is that Yaakov is still learning how to read, and it takes him a long time to recite a kapitel tehillim!!! [Heard from Yaakov’s mother] Read More: The Ten Year Old Doctor From Lakewood
They were chosen by Hashem to be His messengers to bring His divinity into the world. They teach all of mankind that there is a Loving and Caring Creator for the World. Am Yisrael continues to fulfill this mission to this day. Hear more on A Life with Bitachon. Read more: What is the definition of Hashgacha Pratis?
Someone accidentally broke Mrs. Adler’s* glass table. It cost around $700-$800 to fix and she did not know how she was going to replace it. She said to Hashem, “I don’t know how I am going to replace it, but you have a plan!” The next day, someone came to the house and said, “I see you have a set of chairs from an old dining room set, I would like to know if you would like to sell them to me.” Mrs. Adler* gladly accepted since she was any way planning on trashing them. The man then paid her $800!! Read more: Bitachon #82
R’ Goldberg from Eretz Yisrael was making a siyum for his kollel, and he was at the local supermarket buying a lot of stuff for the siyum. He told the cashier what he was buying the stuff for. The cashier said that he wants the zechus so that he will pay for it! He just swiped his card and paid for everything! What an amazing nation! Read more: What makes Am Yisrael Unique?
Rabbi Golombeck was in Santander Bank waiting in line, and there was a Heimeshe Yid behind him. Rabbi Golombeck told him, “I know time is precious to every Yid, but you should just know that I’m going to be very quick. I am making one transaction, and I’ll be out before you know it.” The other yid said to Rabbi Golombeck, “You know what? I appreciate you telling me that so much. I’ll tell you why. You show that you care about me and you care about my time. You realize that we’re waiting in line. Some people could take a long time, they can make five transactions, and it could take 10 minutes. Now I’m calmer because I know it’s going to be just a couple of minutes. You gave me more menuchas hanefesh. You didn’t have to tell me this, but you made me feel so good.” You see how important it is to think of ways to make people happier and more than that, because he said thank you so much, it made Rabbi Golombeck feel so good that he did something good! Read more: Undamped Simcha
Hillel Akilav is a talmid of Rabbi Golombeck. His yeshiva had an off-Shabbos for Purim, so he went home to Queens. He spent his Purim going from hospital room to hospital room leining Megillah for every single person who wanted. He did house calls, went to sick patients, and even went to nursing homes! He said that he leined for so many people that day that he couldn’t even keep track of how many people it was! Can you imagine? That’s how he spent his whole Purim day! While he was in the hospital, a non-religious family heard him leining Megillah for somebody else. “Can you also read the Megillah for us?” they asked him. “We don’t want to miss out just because we’re not religious. We know this is what Hashem wants us to do. So we want to do it. We want to make Hashem happy.” He leined for a non-frum family because they didn’t want to feel left out by not doing a mitzvah!! Read more: Just in Time!
R’ Eliezer Hess gives a Daf Yomi shiur in Roberts shul. After Shacharis on Purim, he was collecting in the shul. Someone in the corner of Shul gave him some money, but at the time, he didn’t chap how much he had given him. Afterward, he checked the amount and saw that he had received a thousand dollars in cash. He was surprised by the amount and realized that he had forgotten to say a proper thank you; he hadn’t realized that it was such a large sum of money. He didn’t even know who the person was; he had never met the person in his life. He went over to the gabbai of the shul and asked him if he knew who that person was that had been sitting in the corner. The gabbai said, “No, why?” He said, “I want to thank him! He gave me $1,000!” The gabbai said that he would check the video cameras of the shul. They checked the video cameras, and the gabbai said, “Oh, he is the son of someone who lives a few houses down.” R’ Eliezer wanted to show his hakaras hatov. He went to the man’s house and told him that he wanted to speak to his son because he wanted to say thank you. His son came to the door, and R’ Eliezer said, “Thank you so much! You don’t even know me, and you gave me a thousand dollars!” The son said, “It’s matanos l’evyonim, what’s the big deal? And I forgot, I only gave for myself. I have to give for my wife. Here’s another thousand!” Read More: Am Yisrael is Amazing
Mrs. Schwartz needed help taking care of her kids before Pesach, cleaning up, and juggling errands; she had so many things she had to do. She was thinking that she really needed a mothers helper. But where was she going to find one? She knew that Hashem always helped her with everything else in life, so Hashem could help her now! The next day, she got a phone call from the local school that they were making a new Chesed program, and they wanted the girls to go to homes to help out. “Would you like to sign up? Do you have interest in having girls come to your house to do chesed?” She said, “Are you serious? It’s exactly what I need!” Read More: “Am Yisrael is the Most Amazing Nation!”
One day, Rabbi Golomeck didn’t eat lunch, and he was a little hungry. His daughter Esther, who’s in first grade, came home from school at about 3:30 and went to get an orange. She peeled it, separated the pieces, and gave it to Rabbi Golombeck. “Here, Tatty, enjoy it!” He said, “Who told you to do this?” She said, “I just thought about it on my own!” Read more: Hashem Povides, Am Yisrael Shteigs!
Mrs. Strauss* didn’t have much extra money, but she really wanted to be able to help other yidden, so she opened a chair gemach. Someone called her up and said that she’s making a simcha and needs a certain amount of chairs. Mrs. Strauss remembered someone had borrowed chairs a few weeks before and had not returned them, so she was short seven chairs to lend to the simcha. She had no idea who had borrowed it. She said to Hashem, “You know where they are. In order for me to help another Yid, I need to find out where they are.” Shortly afterwards, someone called her up and said, “ I just remembered. I borrowed chairs from you, and I never returned them. Can I return them?” Just like that! Hashem put it in their brain to return it when she reached out to Hashem! Read more: Am Yisrael is Amazing!
R’ Halpert* heard about a Jewish child going to public school. He went to the parents and asked them why they didn’t send him to a frum school. They told him that they would be happy for him to get a Jewish education, but it’s too expensive, and they couldn’t do it. This yungerman said that he took it as his achrayius, that every month he fundraises to pay this child’s tuition! Klal Yisrael is the most amazing nation! Ayom V’nora! Read more; Thriving Bitachon Kollel!
