Reb Benjamin Loberbom,הי"ו, tells us about the wonderful awakening that took place in Yeshivat Mir in Jerusalem, and the miraculous outcome:
I have been involved in the distribution of the Zera Shimshon newsletters in Jerusalem for several years and, baruch Hashem, the newsletters can be found everywhere: in all the Batei Kenesiot, in the yeshivot and in the kolelim. So I want to give personal testimony of what I have seen in the public.
I constantly hear many warm reactions from members of the various congregations. People tell me that they cannot start Shabbat without first reading the Zera Shimshon newsletter. Readers tell me that there is something special about this newsletter; his words of Torah gladden the hearts and light up the eyes. The Zera Shimshon newsletter on the week's parshah has the merit of being among the most requested.
About a year and a half ago, after there was a particular awakening in the Jerusalem Mir Yeshiva to study the auspicious books of Zera Shimshon, some friends and I decided to form a special Zera Shimshon book study group at Yeshivat Mir. Since several Talmideh Chachamim par excellence, among the most select of the yeshiva, participated in this group, we chose the great Gaon, Harav Shimon Pereg, shlita, who was one of the leaders of other yeshiva study groups, to lead our private study group. Rabbi Pereg, as is known, is well versed in the books of Rabbeinu the Zera Shimshon, and his enthusiasm in studying the Torah of the Zera Shimshon is reflected in the wonderful shiurim he imparts. These make up a notable part of the Zera Shimshon shiurim that are heard around the world through Kol Zera Shimshon.
In our study group also participated a selection of young adults who each hoped to see soon his particular salvation. We set the study sessions on a fixed basis every week. The Zera Shimshon Dissemination Organization distributed thousands of Zera Shimshon articles and newsletters in the yeshiva, and many students joined the powerful awakening that had sprung up in the yeshiva.
Many other students joined the study even on Shabbat afternoons, to study from the book Toldot Shimshon on the chapters of the Pirkeh Avot.
Rabbi Pereg, shlita, told me that it was clear that such a great awakening experienced by the Talmidei Chachamim par excellence of Yeshivat Mir in studying the work of the Zera Shimshon, provided its author with great satisfaction. And, without a doubt, b’ezrat Hashem, we would be able to see with our own eyes the salvations that the author assured.
Indeed, so it was. Within a short time after the shiurim began, three of the young men participating in the shiurim got engaged in the same week! The first of the young men got engaged on Monday night, the second got engaged on Tuesday night, and the third of the young men got engaged on Wednesday night. The excitement in the yeshiva was indescribable. Everyone could clearly see the sign that demonstrated the reliability of the promise of the author of the Zera Shimshon, certified by the three-time repetition of the expected salvation that materialized.
Rabbi Pereg, shlita, advises everyone to comply with the emotional request of Rabenu, the author of the Zera Shimshon, to study his work. And, as we heard from various Gedolei Hador, shlita, this is very simple, because it is enough to establish a fixed shiur every day, even if it is only for a few minutes. In this way, one has the merit of seeing fulfilled in himself the author's great promise of “seeing sons, and sons of sons, wise and understanding; houses full of everything good; both wealth and honor will not cease to accompany their offspring.”
