I few years ago, based on the advice of Rav Gamliel, I accepted upon myself to daven three times a day and with a minyan. I accepted this upon myself no matter what!!! My daily routine changed. Everything revolved around the Tefillos and minyanim.
But one day I found myself laying in bed at 3:00 AM and I thought to myself and I was not sure if I had davened Maariv or not? I wanted to believe that I did. I reviewed the evening until then and I realized that I had not davened Maariv. I decided not to give up and forcibly pulled myself out of bed despite the great fatigue, went to Shtibelach of the Ramah in Beit Shemesh with the hope that there would be a minyan, but aside from two homeless men sleeping on benches, I found no one. I waited about half an hour, hoping for a minyan, but to no avail.
I said to myself, if I am already up and made an effort to stand up to the challenge of davening with a minyan, I would see it to the end, and I decided as a last resort I would travel to Yerushalayim to the Kosel Hamaaravi to try to find a minyan, thinking that by doing this I had tried every possible effort, and if I had to daven by myself, at least it would be at the place of the Mikdash. I went to the car, and suddenly before I even started it, a group of boys got off a bus shouting, “Maariv Maariv!!!” I was shocked by the sight, not sure if it was true or if I was dreaming while awake.
It turned out that the young men were returning from a trip on behalf of the yeshiva, and the Rebbe told them to strictly adhere to the halacha and not daven on the minibus, or at a stop on the road, but rather, only in a shul. Therefore, they came to Shtibelach to daven in shul. The amazing thing is that there were many shuls along the way, and they could have stopped at any one of them, but HaKadosh Baruch Hu heard my Tefillah and sent them in a special way so that I could daven with a minyan!!!
ב.ש.
