Someone related the following to me:
“Tell me the truth,” I heard the person in front of me in line asking the pharmacist. “Does this medicine, which you so highly recommend, really work, or is it just a placebo? I heard of several people who tried taking this medication but it didn’t help them.”
“If you don’t believe in the healing power of this medicine, then it certainly won’t help you,” the pharmacist responded. “If you believe in it, it will help.”
This Yid told me that he got an important message from overhearing this conversation: There are so many amazing stories about people who saw tangibly Hashem’s hashgachah and chessed, and I wonder why I don’t see this type of hashgachah too, he said. Why don’t such stories happen to me?
The pharmacist answered my question. If you don’t believe, then it will not work. Emunah unleashes and enables hashpa’os.
The Ohev Yisrael zy”a brings, in Parshas Noach, in the name of the heiligeh Reb Michel of Zlotchov: There are two definitions of emunah. One definition is the belief that this thing is correct or that it will happen. And the second definition is, as it says regarding Mordechai: “Vayehi omein es Hadassah,” meaning that he raised Esther Hamalkah.
He elaborates, explaining that emunah as reflected in the first definition will bring about the second definition. That is to say, when we believe in something, we raise it and enable it to become. If a person believes, he brings the hashpa’os upon himself.
Hakadosh Baruch Hu bequeathed to our generation a gift: the Hashgachah Pratis phone line. The facts show that people who are consistently connected to the phone line lead completely different lives.
It is exciting each time anew to hear statements that we’ve already heard thousands of times, such as, “It’s eye-opening,” and, “I feel I’ve been reborn.”
This applies in all areas. People open their eyes both spiritually and physically, regarding, for example, parnassah, and interactions both with their fellow man and with Hashem. People simply become aware that Hakadosh Baruch Hu loves them, and things become clear to them, like one brick set atop another, in a most precise way.
Because anyone connected to the phone line is connected to emunah, and anyone who believes in Hashem brings Hashem’s goodness upon himself.
Dear brothers, it doesn’t matter how long you listen. The main thing is to listen consistently. Schedule the Hashgachah Pratis phone line in your daily routine. This will be life-changing for you. Take the number, save it to your phone, and start seeing emunah with your own eyes.
Gut Shabbat
Pinchas Shefer
Parshs Korach - Chukat 5784 ■ Issue 142
