The following account came through Rabbi Menachem Biniamin Fashkas, Shlita, who, in turn, heard it from Mr. S. M., owner of a printing press in New York. It should be noted that Mr. S. M. helps us a lot in spreading the Torah of the author of Zera Shimshon. This is what he related:
About thirty years ago I established my printing shop. Since then, baruch Hashem, this workshop provides me with an honorable livelihood. Many of the clients who come in are occasional, such as parties involved in a wedding or the parents of a boy who has reached Bar Mitzvah age who come to have their invitations printed. There are also permanent clients, such as businesses, institutions, companies, etc. Success in a business like this depends heavily on these regular customers. If I can attract and keep clients like these, I know I have a strong foundation to continue in business. Therefore, both I and all the workers of the press pay the greatest attention to these customers, we provide them with the best service, so that they are happy and remain faithful to our business.
One of our largest permanent customers, in fact the most important, orders print jobs from us in large quantities. Our dealings with this company dated from the beginning of our print shop, decades ago. In the last season, I realized that this company had not ordered any printing work from us for several months. Obviously, this made me incredibly stressed, and after a simple investigation, I got the disturbing tidbit. The person we were in contact with at the company, who ordered all the company’s printing orders, had reached retirement age and, in his place, a new, young and diligent manager entered. This new manager, after making his own inquiries and making price comparisons in the field of printing, decided to change the printing press and directed all the printing jobs of that company to another, cheaper workshop. This caused me great pain, because this company was our main column of support, our best client; he placed endless orders with us and paid immediately. I did not know what to do, and this situation seriously tormented me.
Precisely in that week in which I had learned of the change of manager of the company, the hilulah of the Tzaddik, Rabbenu the author of Zera Shimshon, was going to be celebrated. It is my custom each year to bear a generous portion of the printing costs of the special edition of the newsletter published by the World Organization for the Diffusion of the Torah of Zera Shimshon in honor of the hilulah, and this year (2019) was not different. In the workshop we were dedicated to the printing of the newsletters at a subsidized price that are distributed throughout Boro Park and, while I was dealing with the technical issues involved in the printing of the newsletters, my lips articulated a tefillah: “Ribonó shel Olam! Avinu shebashamaim! Notice how much I am concerned with the fulfillment of the request of the Tzaddik, who assured that the houses of those who dedicate themselves to his book would be full of everything good”. With this prayer in my mouth, I found myself pulling out one sheet after another from the printing machine, completely submerged in tefillah before Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
I had not finished saying my entire prayer and, virtually, with my lips still articulating said tefillah to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, I received a phone call from precisely that important client. On the other end of the line was that new manager, who called to notify me that he had a print order that he wanted to make, and it was an exceptionally large order. As he continued to talk to me and give me the details of the order, I was thinking about what kind of discount I could offer him and how to reach a middle ground in terms of price, for the company to continue its deal with us. But the new manager finished his words without even touching on the subject of price. All he asked me was, “By when will you deliver it to us?”
Simply wonderful!
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