The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation shared a story. Eleven-year-old Boruch Liederman* loved his digital camera. On a family trip to Har Hermon, he snapped 567 pictures. On the way home, his younger brother begged to see the pictures.
“Not until they’re uploaded onto the computer,” Boruch said sleepily. Dozing off, he didn’t notice his curious little brother taking the camera. Boruch awoke to frantic conversation among his family.
“Where are the pictures? Did he delete them?” His siblings were desperately pressing the camera’s buttons, hoping to retrieve the missing pictures. Boruch took back his precious camera, only to discover that the memory card was gone! “It’s lost!” he cried, “and it must have happened when Tzviki took it without my permission!”
Seeing the fury on Boruch’s face, his older sister Rivky asked her father to pull the car over. Rivky was 27, kind and wise, and was still waiting for her Bashert. Rivky took Boruch for a walk alongside the road.
“I know how angry you are,” she said, “and it’s now that I need a favor from you. I once heard that if someone overcomes his anger, even when he’s right, he can ask Hashem for something really big.”
Baruch said, “I understand, Rivky. As a Zechus for you to get married, I’m going to control myself.” Boruch took a deep breath, and soon, a very calm Boruch and his sister returned to the car.
Two weeks later, Mr. Liederman received a call from an acquaintance. “An American Bachur who I learn with found a memory card on Har Hermon. I immediately recognized your family in the pictures. Here’s the Bachur’s phone number. His name is Eliezer.
Boruch and his father picked up the memory card from Eliezer, and he impressed Mr. Liederman as a mature young man with fine Middos, and perhaps he was a suitable match for his daughter. The Shidduch was arranged, and he turned out to be just perfect for Rivky. Shortly afterwards, the two were engaged! The lost memory card that led Eliezer to Rivky was Hashem’s clear message that nothing is lost, and everything is gained, by letting go of one’s anger, even when he is right!
Reprinted from the Parshas Behar-Bechukosai 5785 email of Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg’s Torah U’Tefilah.
