One of the famous publicized stories after the attack of Simchas Torah is how a pair of tzitzis saved a group of soldiers. The story goes like this:
A yesomah from Eretz Yisrael approached Rav Chaim Zaid saying that she has 6,000 shekels in her savings. She wanted to use that money to buy pairs of tzitzis for Israeli soldiers. Rav Chaim took the money and bought 127 pairs of tzitzis.
When they approached the army base to give the tzitzis to soldiers, they were not granted entry because they had word that a terrorist was hiding somewhere in the area. Instead, Rav Chaim and his assistants were forced to throw the tzitzis over the fence to soldiers standing on the other side. And so they did.
When the bag with the tzitzis was being thrown into the base, a wind came and blew it in a different direction. Seeing something in the air flying toward him, the terrorist who’d been hiding in the area suspected that a grenade was being thrown at him. He ran out of his ambush, was spotted immediately, and was shot on the spot.
Reb Yaakov Rahimi repeated this story in English, and several weeks later, he got a call from a wealthy man in Florida. “I’d like to be the ‘father’ of this orphaned-girl,” he told R' Rahimi. “Let me know when this orphan gets married. I’ll cover the expenses of her wedding. Such an orphan! I want to be the one bringing her to her chuppah, and I’ll buy her an apartment in Yerushalayim as well!”
The girl is now engaged, and her wedding will be paid in full b’ezras Hashem, and she’ll have a beautiful apartment in Bayit Vegan! She took her life savings and used it toward a mitzvah, not knowing where her basic expenses would be paid for, and we all see how Hashem gave it back more than a hundred times! You never lose out from doing the right thing!
