I accompanied a family whose infant suffered very, very much due to a complication of a rare illness that knocked the family off its feet emotionally, physically, and financially, as a result of long hospitalizations and an inability to work and provide for the household as usual.
When they returned home after a period of hospitalization and prolonged treatments, I heard that they needed a short vacation. I could not refuse, and I approved for them to book a getaway for the entire family for Shabbos, with food and comfortable, restorative lodging. The inn called me, and I transferred to them a payment of thirteen thousand shekels (13,000) on behalf of the family that so greatly needed it.
My wife heard me paying the large sum and said: “Fine, for medical needs you give what you have and what you do not have, but since when do you send a family on a vacation?!”
I explained to her that my heart felt that they truly needed this vacation, and I was not capable of saying no!!!!
On Motzaei Shabbos I closed a real estate deal that brought me in a sum double the investment, but not merely double, rather thirteen times the investment.
I immediately showed my wife, and she reconsidered and accepted it, and announced that she would no longer have comments about my acts of charity!!!
Every time I perform acts of kindness I see special Heavenly assistance, but this time, when it involved activating the attribute of mercy beyond the letter of the law, HaKadosh Baruch Hu sent us thirteenfold, in order to emphasize the measure-for-measure!!!
ח.מ.
