Rav Gamliel Rabinowitz related a story in Tiv HaHashgacha that someone had reported: My nine-year-old son excitedly told me a story that happened to him in the middle of the Haftorah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. He said, “I lost the place in my Machzor during Maftir. I looked for the place, but I could not find it. Suddenly, a fly landed on my Machzor, and I was about to wave it away, when I realized that it was standing on the exact place where the Ba’al Korei was reading! I was then able to follow along!”
I was touched by two points in the story. The first point was to hear the story from my son, in that he was able to see the Hashgacha Pratis of Hashem in the entire story, and how Hashem is running the world from the biggest to the smallest details. The second point is that he patiently waited until between the Haftorah and Mussaf, and only then did he tell me the story, despite being excited and wanting to tell me the minute it happened. I believe that this is the nature of most of Am Yisroel, not to speak during Davening and Leining!
Reprinted from the Rosh Hashanah 5785 email of Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg’s Torah U’Tefilah.
