Rav Gamliel Rabinowitz
Rav Gamliel Rabinowitz shared a story on Tiv HaHashgacha that someone shared with him: A man opened a centrally located store in the middle of a successful business area, but this store was not successful. After half a year of losses the store was closed. A new business grabbed the location, but he was also not successful and closed it after half a year. Other businesses took over, and they all had the same result. This went on for a few years. All the businesses in the area thrived, but this store seemed to have a curse hovering over it.
My friend who owns businesses in many places around the country and the world, decided to take the store and open a business there. However, he does not make even a small move without consulting his Rav. He heard that this store had a curse, and he asked his Rav what he must do.
The Rav went down to the store and looked around, and told him, “Open your business here and you will be successful, just move the Mezuzah to the other side of the doorway. The previous people placed the Mezuzah on the wrong side!”
My friend opened his business and was very successful, and I was amazed at how the Mezuzah brought Brachah to him. It taught me how important it is to consult with Daas Torah, because so many other people could have avoided the suffering they endured with their failed businesses if they had asked a Rav about the proper place for a Mezuzah!
Reprinted from the Parshas Vayechi 5786 email of Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg’s Torah U’Tefilin.
