What was once considered unbelievable has recently been renamed believable.
It’s a kindness of Hashem to this final generation that things that used to be in the realm of the unbelievable have become believable.
To date, the monthly Hashgachah Pratis Magazine for the entire family has been coming out for a full year. Today it is forty pages long and filled with true stories of Divine hashgachah that touches all of Am Yisrael.
When we started the magazine, people wondered: How will you fill an entire booklet with real content? You have material enough for a biweekly newsletter of four pages, but now you’re jumping into the creation of a full-length magazine?!
And as always, the answer is that we cannot do anything; there is only One Who can, and there is only One Who does. And therefore, everything becomes possible.
If people used to think that remaining calm during wartime was in the realm of the unbelievable, today thousands of families who are subscribers can testify that it is possible, and it is believable.
There are statements that can inspire you even when you’re hearing them for the hundred-thousandth time. When a Yid says, “My house has been transformed from one extreme to the other,” that is exciting each time anew. People invest their entire neshamos, their money and their kochos into the chinuch of their children, into bringing peace and serenity into their homes. Every Yid would invest everything he has in order to create a good-quality home. If Hakadosh Baruch Hu has given us the zechus to bring light into their homes, then every inspired reaction to the magazine is worth at least a million dollars.
This is a gift that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has given our generation, the generation that so desperately needs this protection and this light.
When the State of Israel was established, and many Yidden fell in battle, R”l, the Chazon Ish told Hagaon Rav Meir Greineman that the only eitzah is to protect your home, and the only way to do so is by bringing emunah in hashgachah pratis into your home, by talking about and telling stories of hashgachah pratis.
And today, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is sending the treasure of hashgachah pratis into every single home, through the Hashgachah Pratis initiative, and especially now, through the Magazine that is appropriate for all ages.
Let us turn to Hashem and tell Him: Your mercies have helped us until now, and Your loving-kindness hasn’t left us. Do not abandon us, Hashem Elokeinu, ever! May we merit that emunah seeps into every Jewish home, and that every person declares Hashem as King of the entire world.
Gut Shabbat
Pinchas Shefer
