At one stage in my life I experienced real financial difficulty. I did not know where I would find the next shekel, and I davened to Hashem from the depths of my heart to send me a yeshuah. I had no idea how the yeshuah could come. I had not done any sort of work for which I could suddenly be repaid a salary from long ago. Nor could I come up with an idea for some sort of side income. I was simply facing zero, and I knew that only the Creator of the world could help me.
The yeshuah came in a way that I could not have imagined. I got a call from an organization for tutors, and the head of the organization told me, “Your brother was learning with one of our tutors, so we took 50 shekels a month from your parents. This past year your brother was no longer learning with the tutor, but we mistakenly continued taking the money from the account. I wanted to ask you – what should I do with the money? Should I leave it as a donation to the institute or return it to your parents?”
In response to my question of why he was talking to me rather than to my parents, he said that this was the number he’d found.
I discussed this with my parents, and they told me, “Let the organization return the money, and you take it.”
This was amazing! The sum I received came at exactly at the right time, and I believed that Hashem would help me further.
Indeed, one day my mother called me and told me her neighbor wanted to pay tuition for two children who are learning Torah. She wanted our bank information in order to pay tuition for two of my children, which came to 500 shekels a month. I continued davening, and my mother’s neighbor decided she wanted to pay for all my children, not only for two of them, and another 300 shekels were added to her monthly contribution.
It’s not that I had asked her for anything. Such an idea would never have entered my mind. Hakadosh Baruch Hu put it into her heart to contribute to me. I simply saw tangibly how tefillah from the depths of the heart is accepted. Baruch shomeia tefillah!
