While on a family trip, my wife lost a number of very valuable pieces of jewelry. We searched, unsuccessfully, in every possible place. We decided to donate toward the dissemination of emunah as a segulah to find the missing jewelry. To our amazement, immediately after we donated, we found the jewelry! It seemed that one of our small children had put it deep into one of the bags and had forgotten all about it. We were very excited when, just after making the donation, we found the jewelry in a totally random place.
I live in the United States. Several hours before Yom Tov I received a phone call from the electric company; they told me that I had a debt and that if I would not pay it immediately, my electricity would be shut off within half an hour. They demanded that I come to Manhattan to pay in cash, but this was impossible before Yom Tov. The solution they offered was to buy a prepaid credit card, and that’s what I did. I purchased a credit card for $280, and I paid the bill. Only afterward did I realize that something was off. I called the electric company immediately and found out that I had fallen prey to a phone scam.
The interesting point of the story is that all that time, from when I received the threatening phone call and even after I realized it was a scam, I was completely calm. I did not feel pressured from the threat to disconnect my electricity, and not when I discovered that it was a scam, either. This serenity comes from my consistently listening to the hashgachah pratis phone line, which strengthens me in emunah and bitachon that everything is from Hashem, and this stood by me throughout the nisayon.
