Hashgacha Pratis means that Hashem the Creator and Sustainer of the entire creation is orchestrating everything in the world according to his plan. Everything has a purpose and everything that happens only happens because of His will. Hear more on A Life with Bitachon. Read more: What is the definition of Bitachon?
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 of minutes later, they found out that had they continued on, they would have been in place where a terrorist was shooting! Read more: Techias Ha’Maisim on a Light Bulb!
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 person who redt the shidduch persisted, so her mother said she would make one phone call, and if he says it’s the catch of the century, then we’ll agree to go ahead. They took the resume, made one phone call to Rabbi Golombeck, and Rabbi Golombeck said that he was the catch of the century! Read more: Question Answered!
Mrs. Taub had to bring a package to the post office. As she was driving, she wondered how she would manage. She knew it would be difficult to find parking, and she didn’t really want to schlep her baby into the post office. She decided to leave it up to Hashem. As she was driving, she saw her landlord, Mrs. Stern,* standing at the side of the road. She pulled over to ask what was wrong, and Mrs. Stern told her that her car just broke down. She asked her if she could by any chance get a ride home with her. Mrs. Taub told her that she is on her way home, but she is just stopping by the post office. Mrs. Stern* said, “Oh, sure! Let’s work together! I’ll bring in the package. You don’t have to park or have someone watch your baby!“ Hashem orchestrates an amazing and perfect world! Read more: Bitachon #69
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 booked solid and it is Erev Yom Tov. Normally, there would be no chance I could help you. I really don’t have any extra time. Hashem arranged it that I just arrived at a house to make a repair, and nobody is answering the door. I’m right next to your house, just waiting here doing nothing, so I’ll just come to you first!” After he fixed their air conditioner, he went back to the job he was really supposed to be doing! Read more: Hashem Catches Child
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 making him upbeat and happy, he sees so much siyata d’shmaya and so much more bracha in his life. He gave an example. He said that he has two floors in his house. His 5-year-old kid was playing ball on the top of the stairs, and he tripped. He fell all the way down both flights of stairs, and the bottom is tiled. R’ Kahn “happened” to be standing right there, and his son fell headfirst into his lap! He caught him before he hit the floor! He took it as a lesson that Hashem is always there to catch us! Read more: Flooded with Hashem’s Chessed
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 basement was empty. Rabbi Golombeck’s tenants were able to stay right across the street for the first week! Second, Rabbi Golombeck was planning on redoing the whole basement to make sure there wouldn’t be any mold, and the insurance company was willing to give enough money to cover all the damages! Otherwise, they would have had to pay thousands of dollars! Thirdly, the Golombecks had to find a new place for their tenants as it would take a month to fix up the damage. Fortunately, they found a Chosson/Kallah apartment available for rent down the block, completely furnished, and they said they could use it for as long as they wanted! Hashem took care of everything! Read more: Hashem Arranges Every Ride
R’ Schuster* recently got new tires because the old ones were worn out. A few days later, he was driving, and a deer ran out in front of his car. He was able to make a shortstop, and he didn’t hit the deer. If he hadn’t gotten new tires four days earlier, his car would not have stopped so well, and there very likely would have been an accident. In addition, the car behind him wasn’t driving so closely behind him, so they were also Baruch Hashem able to stop in time! Hashem is watching over a perfect word! Read more: Hashem’s unrelenting Kindness!
Mrs. Alpert, R’ Avigdor Miller’s einkel, once called me up to ask what Kabbalah she could do to bring more kavod shamayim to the world. She was already doing so much, but I told her to tell one person a day how she saw Hashem that day. She said she’s been doing it, and people love it and have been asking for more! She shares stories with them, and they share with her. She has a hotline, and today, she said over a story. She went from store to store shopping. After she finished, as she was walking out of one of the stores, she stuck her hands in her pocketbook, and she realized that there were no keys. She usually doesn’t even check her pocketbook ahead of time to see if she has her keys; when she gets to her car, she looks for them. Hashem just put it into her brain to check, and she saw she was missing her car keys. She had no idea where it was, and she had a lot of packages with her. Then she remembered the last place she had them. She is a teacher, and she went to the candy store to get candies for the kids. She had her keys in her hand as she was counting out the candies. She went to check, and it was right there! She saw the chesed Hashem! If she had gone to her car without checking for her keys ahead of time, she would have carried all those bags to the car, and then she would have had to go back inside. Also, Hashem reminded her where it could have been! She didn’t remember that she had her keys then. It was just Hashem putting everything in her brain. She said that Hashem showed her chesed after chesed and that He is taking care of her. Amazing Hashgacha Praitis! [R’ Zevy Golombeck] Read more: Chesed Hashem
The Greenberg* mishpacha went overseas and they were sleeping in a hotel. They left their hotel room and closed the door behind them, and they realized that they had locked the keys inside the room. They only had one set of keys. They were trying to figure out what to do. Just then, they saw a Yid walking by. He said, “I’m a mashgiach here in the kitchen, anything I can help you with?” They said, “Yeah, our key is locked in the room.” He said to them, “Oh sure. I know exactly who is in charge of where the second key is to your room.” He was able to help them find the right person to help them! Hashem organized everything perfectly! Amazing Hashgacha Pratis! [R’ Zevy Golombeck] Read more: Parking on Hashem!
