A man once approached the Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan zy”a and poured out his heart, saying that he had lost his entire fortune and was left penniless and in great debt. He said that he saw no natural way to get out of his predicament and that he was so desperate that he was even thinking of taking his own life, r”l.
The Rebbe was very upset to hear such words. He said, “How can you talk like this?”
He got up, walked over to his cabinet, took out a large sum of money and gave it to the man. The man was shocked and said that his intent was not to ask the Rebbe for money, and he refused to accept it.
The Rebbe said, “I order you to take it.”
As he handed him the money, he added, “A few minutes ago, did you ever think you’d get such a large amount of money in such a short time?”
The man said that he had never dreamed he would. The Rebbe then said, “You see that you can get money in unexpected ways. You must believe that Hashem can always help you in ways that you couldn’t even imagine!”
And so it was. The man merited to see salvations in a number of unexpected ways and his life changed for the better.
