In the beginning of the summer zman, I was broke. I had no money – not in the bank and not available in my credit cards, and I had to pay my son’s babysitter and buy a sefer that I needed for my learning in kollel. Then I came across the newsletter with the words of Rav Yehuda Mandel shlit”a, one of the mashpi’im on the phone-line. He spoke about complete bitachon in Hashem and brought all types of examples from Yeshivas Novaradok. I said to myself, Maybe I should try this. Although I am not on the level of Novaradok, I could certainly take something small from there nonetheless.
I kept thinking deeply that Hashem is kol yachol, and I trusted that He would send me the sums that were so necessary for me. Hashem knows exactly what I need, and I was sure He would send it; it didn’t matter exactly how. I started walking in the direction of a bookstore to buy the sefer I needed, even though I had no money, but then I realized that it was almost 3:30 and I had to hurry to kollel. I switched directions and headed for kollel.
When I arrived, the rosh kollel came over to me and gave me a sum of money that was enough to both pay the babysitter and buy the sefer!
It had never before happened that I received my kollel stipend at the beginning of the month. I saw tremendous hashgachah pratis here!
