With thanks to Hashem, I bought a nice apartment which needed to be renovated and expanded. I hired an Arab contractor who gave me a quote for the entire renovation, and we parted ways. However, because of the war that broke out in Israel, Palestinian workers were not allowed to come into my city, and I had to hire workers at a hire price than the first contractor which caused me to completely go over my budget, until I was left with quite a few things that I had to forego.
I accepted the judgment with love, and thanked Hashem that I managed to finish the renovation at a time when many others were completely stuck and the money that they planned to spend on renovations they spent on rent, since their apartments are in the middle of construction and everything is at a standstill and their temporary rental has become quite permanent...
One thing was hard for me, that I did not have money left to build a garden storage room [shed] for all the boxes and things that needed to be stored.
My friend, a Jewish contractor, who helped me finish the job in the house, checked and found it would cost me 16,000 shekel. I explained that I did not even have a penny, “Then grab the art of our ancestors in your hands and start praying to Hashem to send the money for the storeroom!”
His words left his heart and entered mine, and I understood that this was the only option I had to do. I prayed from the heart.
Not two days passed and the unbelievable happened! I found a friend outside shul who was doing minor repairs, and I shared my situation with him. He was stunned and said, “I have here in the building next door a dismantled shed just the size you need, do me a favor and take it away. It is bothering all the neighbors!!!”
In return for a few shekels, he built the shed for me that was the exact size that I wanted, to the inch!!!
It turned out that the neighbor who built it in their building harmed the neighbors. He wanted to compensate the neighbors by building a shed in the public area of the building of his own good will, but some of the neighbors objected to the shed which took up public space, so he had to take it apart and clear the area!!!
A shed this size costs 10,000 shekels. It turns out their garbage was my gold!!!
נ.מ.
Vayechi
