There once was a chasid named R’ Fishel Meir Salka who made his living as a wagon driver. He would transport people in his elegant wagon on short and long trips, and he made a good living doing this job.
A group of chasidim once hired R’ Fishel Meir to take them to Ziditchoiv for Shavuos, where they would spend the yomtov with their Rebbe, Rav Isaac’l of Ziditchoiv zy”a. They set off on the journey before the Shabbos prior to Shavuos, which was Parshas Bamidbor, and R’ Fishel Meir also spent that Shabbos in Ziditchoiv.
Rav Isaac’l himself served as the baal koreh, and, therefore, R’ Fishel Meir greatly desired to have an aliyah. Before Shabbos, he gave the Gabbai and nice sum of money and asked him to give him an aliyah, telling him that it didn’t need to be an especially prestigious aliyah, and even a “hosafa” would be okay.
The Gabbai did call R’ Fishel Meir up for a hosafa. The aliyah ended with the words of this pasuk “22,000”, and he read the word with a motion that “the Parshah will end here.” This puzzled all those who were present.
Upon returning home, R’ Fishel Meir got involved in business. By the next Shavuos, he had amassed a fortune of 22,000 gold coins. Everyone could see that this was a result of the bracha the tzadik gave him during Kriyas Hatorah. R’ Fishel Meir became a close chasid of the Rebbe, and he would travel to him every Shavuos.
