I am so excited about a phone conversation I had yes- terday with a certain Yid.
“Is this a good time to talk?” he asked me. “I want to tell you something really special.”
He sounded overjoyed, and I was sure he wanted to talk about some lottery he’d won, or some dramatic story he had to tell.
“Yes, I have time,” I said.
“Three years ago,” he said, “I lost my wife, and I want to tell you what openly revealed hashgachah pratis we had at the time.”
Had I heard right? Perhaps I was confused. But there was no point in asking a person in the middle of a story whether I’d understood him correctly, so...I just kept quiet and listened.
And he went on to relate the incredible hashgachah pratis that he and his children had seen both through- out the time she was ill and after her passing, l”a.
“We saw how Hakadosh Baruch Hu accompanies us every step of the way. He is with us, and He does ev- erything for our good.
“Before Sukkos we were uncertain regarding her ill- ness, and our family decided that on Sukkos we’d make the effort to be happy and to forget all about the concerns and all the heaviness of that time. We would add simchah, and as it says in the heilige sefarim – “He who is happy on Sukkos will be happy all year long.”
In Chodesh Av of a subsequent year, his wife passed away. One of the relatives asked, “We were so happy on Sukkos – what happened to the segulah that one who is happy on Sukkos will be happy all year long?”
All the children responded together: “It’s true, we were really happy all year. Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us the strength to accept all of it with simchah.”
Again and again, we see that a good life does not de- pend on money, or on riches, or on anything else. It depends only on emunah.
Stories keep flowing into our phone line about Yidden whose lives changed completely when they connected to Hashgachah Pratis, and especially when they sub- scribed to the “Magazine for the Entire Family.” This is something that transforms one’s life.
Under the headline of the magazine are the words: “To simply live well.” This is not a slogan; it’s a reality. People can transform their lives, making them so much better – to simply live well. How simple it is.
This is the place to thank Hashem for two full years that we have been zocheh to publish this (Hebrew) magazine, and for the thousands of families who have subscribed.
I warmly recommend it. Try it for yourselves. It brings light into a home; it brings a good life.
Gut Shabbat
Pinchas Shefer
