One of the great Torah expositors related his recent experience:
A short time ago, an emotional phone call was received at the offices of the World Organization for the Dissemination of Torah from Zera Shimshon. On the other end of the line the voice of one of the greatest Torah expositors and speakers in the Land of Israel was heard, who called to thank and praise Hashem for the miracles he had the privilege of seeing thanks to Zera Shimshon. This is what he told us:
Baruch Hashem, I have the privilege of earning my living by giving lectures and dissertations on Torah, which I give to congregations and assemblies. I say that I am privileged, because in every dissertation I present, in which I call to the awareness on matters of Torah, kindness, fear of Hashem, and much more, I feel the enormous privilege of being counted among those who provide merit to the public. And even though I am forced to receive payment for it, because I must earn a living, still, with each dissertation I thank Hashem again for this privilege that has been my portion.
In fact, with enormous help from Heaven, for more than three decades I have been traveling from Beit Midrash to Beit Midrash, from one Dinner to the next; and from there to yeshivot, colelim, seminaries, groups of people who have returned in teshuvah, and much more. But I don't remember that I ever had a period like this: for several months I had hardly received invitations to give lectures. Apart from the pain of seeing this great privilege of providing merit to the masses diminished, my livelihood was also greatly reduced because of this, to the point where I came to a state of having only bread and depending on tzedakah. Oh, who would have believed it!
One day, while debating whether I should just go and offer my services to the institutions and beg them to invite me, or whether perhaps it would be better to remain silent, I met one of my close friends. This man has a good spirit and is accustomed to studying Zera Shimshon. As soon as he saw me, he shared with me a vort, a brief special insight drawn from the words of Zera Shimshon about that week's Torah portion. Then he said to me, "You have great power in your mouth. When you connect to a vort (Torah idea), you have the power to connect thousands of people to this vort." I immediately recognized the opportunity presented to me from Heaven and said: "If I see that in the next few days I am invited to lectures, which has not happened recently, I will begin to study the book of Zera Shimshon regularly, and I will publish his Torah words to many, including the great men of the generation of whom I am close and with whom I speak in study."
And, indeed, the incredible happened. That week I was invited to two lectures on the same night, and, baruch Hashem, I managed to combine the two lectures so that I could give both of them on the same night. A few days later, I was invited to a special conference abroad. And so, from that day on, I went back to the rhythm I had when I was invited to conferences as I had always done.
