My name is Yonatan. I have a petting zoo, which is my source of income, with animals that attract visitors who enjoy watching them, petting them, and being calmed by the eternal boredom that only animals are capable of living with.
One day, a Yid called me with an interesting request: “I have hamsters at home. We bought them when they were small and cute, and the children enjoyed caring for them. The hamsters grew and started biting. Maybe you could do me a favor and exchange the grown hamsters for small ones?”
I agreed. I was happy to do the Yid a favor, and he quickly arrived with the cage in order to make the exchange. He looked around, saw my nice petting zoo, and asked, “What are you planning on doing about the rain that’s supposed to fall tonight?”
“Rain? What rain?” This was in Iyar of this year, and it did not occur to me that it would rain.
“I heard on the weather forecast that it’s going to rain,” the Yid updated me.
He completed the exchange for which he had come, and in addition to the hamsters that he left me, he left me with some very important information. It was going to rain! On that day I received a huge delivery of hay – food for the goats. It was a large quantity, for which I had paid a thousand shekels, and it was meant to provide the goats with food for a full year.
The goats eat only dry, crispy hay. If the hay is damp or soft, they’re not willing to eat it. The hay was exposed, and if not for the hamster exchanger’s update, it would never have occurred to me to cover it.
I stretched nylon covers over the entire thing, and indeed, throughout the night it rained in torrents, but the hay remained completely dry and unharmed.
I wanted to do a chessed without any payment or financial gain, but in the merit of this chessed I was spared a huge loss.
