A government agency shut down a business, sending workers home until the premises were up to code. This went on for six months, with them taking their time to reinspect and ask for more things to be corrected. The owner had just gotten new machinery and informed his suppliers that the payments would come as soon as he got the okay to reopen. The owner accepted this from Hashem, and although urged by a mashpiah to write to the Rebbe, his policy was NOT to write anything negative that might cause the Rebbe agmas nefesh.
In the middle of this ordeal, his wife gave birth to a baby girl. He wrote to the Rebbe with the good news, and at the bottom of the letter, he wrote “Nun.Beis. [P.S.] Brocha l’parnassah.” The Rebbe did not answer this letter, which was strange, because mazal tov letters usually came fast. About five weeks after the birth, which was about six months after being shut down, the chief inspector met the owner at the premises and gave him the okay to reopen. Two hours later, his wife called that he received a letter from the Rebbe. He ran home, and the letter said, "Mazal tov for the good news, on the birth of your daughter." At the bottom of the letter, it said, “Nun.Beis. [P.S.] About the parnassah, k'atzas yedidim mevinim.” Although the crisis was over, he decided that if the Rebbe said it, he would consult yedidim mevinim. === To be continued.
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RABBI SHALOM BER MUNITZ
