An inside look at those who spread emunah and bitachon
Where do you distribute the newsletters?
In Monsey; I distribute it in two different shuls and I also bring it to kollel.
What made you decide to do it?
I got tons of chizuk from the phone line, and the idea of the kvittel spoke to me very much.
Do you have a story of hashgachah pratis to share with our readers?
Something amazing happened to me. I got a call from your office, and they told me they would put a kvittel for me at the kever of Reb Shlom'ke of Zhville zy”a every Erev Rosh Chodesh. I decided to take on the distribution of the newsletters. At the same time, our family made an initiative for bentching. We took upon ourselves to always bentch word for word from inside a siddur.
The following Erev Rosh Chodesh, someone came up to me and asked if I needed money. To make a long story short, I unexpectedly received 5,000 dollars that day. My first thought was that this was a result of our kaballah in bentching, but afterward, I realized that it was the day when you put the kvittel at the kever of Reb Shlom'ke!
There's another story I wanted to tell. I've been living in Monsey for three years already. When we originally came, we found an apartment to rent and hoped to settle there for as long as possible. But two years later, the landlord informed us that they were demolishing the building in order to rebuild it, and that we would have to move.
We searched for an alternate apartment for a long time. It was difficult, but at the end of the day, it was all hashgachah pratis. The apartment we found was in a large building. One of our new neighbors was talking to my wife, and my wife mentioned that she had a brother in shidduchim. This neighbor laughed and said the previous tenant who lived in our apartment had a sister in shidduchim. She decided to match them up, and that's how my brother-in-law's shidduch was made!
Is there a message you want to relay to people who are considering distributing the newsletters?
I want to tell you that it's a wonderful thing. It's a great zechus to give chizuk to so many Yidden. I also heard amazing things on the phone line, but I feel you can accomplish so much more when it comes along .with the newsletter