My name is Avraham. Baruch Hashem, my daughter is a kallah, and after we set a date for the wedding, we started talking to people who provide all sorts of services – the band, the photographer, the badchan, and so on. I contacted a well-known photographer who is very professional, in order to discuss matters with him, and afterward I said, “I would want to close with you now, but I must first speak to my mechutan.”
“No problem,” the photographer said. “I’ll wait till I get a final answer from you, and then we’ll close on this. At this stage I am not saving the date of the wedding for you, but you should know that it makes no difference. If min haShamayim it was decided that I should be your photographer, then it doesn’t matter when you decide to close with me, and if not – then nothing will help.”
“It sounds like you have very strong emunah,” I told him. “That’s why you’re so successful. You surely have stories about this.”
“Yes,” he said, and he told me something amazing: “You know that there are Yerushalmi families who are accustomed to doing things the way they were done in the distant past, and they set a date for the wedding only two weeks in advance. I know such a family. They want me to be the photographer at all their weddings, and you’ll be surprised to hear that I really am the photographer at all their weddings! They make up with me two weeks in advance, and it always works out for them that I’m available.
“And don’t think it’s only a photographer they manage to get. Even the hall is available for them. They always marry off their children in Tamir hall! Sounds strange to you that they succeed in finding an available date only two weeks before the wedding? To them it is not strange at all. They believe that Hashem will arrange it all for them, and He truly arranges it!”
Amazing.
