’The sheet, on time‘ עלון בזמן
Every Thursday evening I collect Tiv HaKehillah sheets in various languages and distribute them in the shuls of my city. On Wednesday, my married son came to my home with the sheets. I asked him why he brought them today, since I always collect them regularly on Thursdays. He replied: “I do not know!!!”
On Thursday I went to visit a patient at Hadassah Hospital, and since I already had sheets, I took a few to place there as well.
After Shabbos, a friend called me and said he had a case of hashgacha pratis that concerned me, and he told me the following:
“I was with my father in the hospital on Shabbos. In the morning my father woke up and asked me to check when the latest time for Krias Shema was. I took out the booklet that gathers various sheets together and began to flip through them to find the latest time for Krias Shema. Among all the sheets, I did not find even one that listed the time for Krias Shema. My father was disappointed, and I did not know where to check. Suddenly I remembered that I had taken from the shul in the hospital a Tiv HaKehillah sheet, and that one includes the times. I pulled the sheet out of my pocket and told my father the times for Krias Shema and also for the latest time for Tefillah, and my father was very pleased!!!
I became emotional and told him that I am the one who placed those sheets in the shul, and now I understood why my son had collected the sheets one day earlier—so that your father would have the time for Krias Shema!!!”
ר.י.
