The young man Y. V., from one of Benei Brak’s important yeshivot, recounts his anecdote:
Some time ago, one fine day my shoes disappeared. They were very expensive shoes and that caused me enormous sadness. At first, I searched in my room in the yeshiva dormitory, and since I couldn’t find them there, I started looking throughout the yeshiva; in the Beth Hamidrash, in the classrooms, in the dining room, in the backyard and by the dormitory. However, I did not find the slightest trace of my expensive shoes.
Since I knew that it had been difficult for my parents to buy shoes like those new ones, I continued my search, while making all my friends and acquaintances participate. Obviously, they, too, dedicated themselves to the search, and furthermore, they added all the other youth of the yeshiva to the important mission. Even so, the shoes did not appear.
In the middle of the search, one of my friends told me: “You already made your effort and did your part. Perhaps you should make your spiritual effort now and study from the book Zera Shimshon. That way you will have a spiritual help to find what you lost.” I didn’t have many options left, so I accepted his advice. I went up to the Beth Hamidrash, took the book Zera Shimshon, and began to study from it, to be worthy of the blessing of its author. About twenty minutes passed and, in the middle of my study, one of the young men from the yeshiva arrived carrying in his hands what I had lost. My shoes were finally found!
What had happened was that the cleaner, who was new to the job at the yeshiva, innocently thought that the shoes that were found next to the bed in the bedroom should be put in the lost and found room, which is far from the yeshiva. It hadn’t occurred to me to look there. And by the merit of studying the auspicious book Zera Shimshon, the friends who were in the search came to that place and found my precious shoes.
