An avreich from Modi’in Illit relates: I have the zechus of running a chessed organization, for which I often need to transport large things from one place to another. Various people who had trailers that attach to a car had agreed to lend me theirs, and each time I used a different one. At one point I realized that I could not continue this way, since I now needed to transport things for several days at a time. My organization had grown and needed its own trailer for permanent use. The time had come to buy one. The sum I was able to put aside for this was only 6,000 shekels.
I found someone who sells such trailers, and as it turned out, the amount I had put aside was truly laughable. The seller did not agree to go down from the price he’d demanded, and several days after our conversation I understood that my only option was to purchase the trailer for the full asking price and figure out afterward how to cover the debt.
I had misplaced the seller’s number, so I called a friend to ask him for the number. “What do you need such a trailer for?” my friend asked.
“For the organization,” I answered him.
“Ask Hakadosh Baruch Hu to send you one,” my friend advised after he’d heard my problems. “For example, one morning I was standing in the kitchen of my kollel, and I asked Hashem, “Please send me hamantaschen with poppy-seed filling; and what happened just moments later? My chavrusa arrived with poppy-seed-filled hamantaschen! Believe that Hashem can do anything and can send you everything. Just ask Him to do so.”
My friend’s words truly gave me life. They reminded me that I am not alone in this battle; my organization belongs to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, and He would certainly help me. I started davening to the Creator, Who is kol yachol, to send me a trailer for free.
A week later, once again I was looking for a trailer. I found one for sale and called to ask the seller about it. “I thought of selling it for 11,000 shekels,” the seller said, “but my son said we could put the price down to 9000 shekels.”
“I have 6000 shekels,” I answered the seller.
It seemed the conversation would continue as it did with the previous seller, but this time something else happened. The seller asked me, “What do you need this type of trailer for?”
I told him about my organization.
If so,” the seller responded, “I want to be your partner in all the zechuyos of that tzedakah. I’m going to lend you the trailer, and you can use it for an unlimited amount of time. I don’t think I’ll ever need it back.”
And that’s how it happened. I got the trailer for free, with the power of simple emunah and true tefillah to the Creator of the world.
