My father shlit”a worked very hard on investigating a certain topic in Torah. He collected sources and cited them one after another, arranged clearly and skillfully. He included questions, halachic decisions, and everything else. Baruch Hashem, after much toil and hard work, he completed his work and the sefer was published.
A while passed. One day a Yid from Beitar phoned me, and he was very emotional. “Did your father write the sefer?” he asked, mentioning the title of the book.
I told him, “Yes, my father wrote that sefer; he totally invested himself in it.”
“You can tell! You can truly see his investment. What a sefer! What work! What editing! Listen, it’s a true find, this sefer, a feast for the eyes. Anyone who deals with this topic must learn the sefer. It brings all the different aspects together in an amazing, organized way. Please give him a tremendous yasher koach in my name. May he be zocheh to continue bringing merit to Am Yisrael and to increase the honor and glory of Torah!”
The name of this Yid rang a bell. I asked my friends if they’d heard of him, and then I realized that this Yid who had praised the sefer so highly was a great talmid chacham who had himself published several sefarim. I called my father, very excited, two hours before Shabbos, and told him about the warm praises for his sefer that I had heard from this chashuveh talmid chacham.
My father told me, “You called right on time. I was just feeling really down. I thought to myself, Why isn’t the sefer selling? Why don’t more people buy it? Maybe the public doesn’t like it? And then Hakadosh Baruch Hu sent me ‘regards,’ specifically today, telling me how someone is enjoying the sefer so immensely. You truly revived my spirit.”
I saw tangibly how Hakadosh Baruch Hu sends the right words at the right time. Even the most concealed emotions are revealed and known to Him, and He sends words that will heal and soothe.
