By Rabbi David Ashear
Boruch* went through a rough divorce, after which he felt all alone in the world. He had recently become a baal teshuvah, and no longer kept up with his old friends. His small family resided far away. He lived alone in a basement apartment and did not have a single person he felt comfortable going to for a Shabbos meal.
Boruch tried to focus on improving himself and learning as much as he could. He discovered a network that sets up people in different homes for Shabbos. Soon he was eating in a different home every week and meeting many new people. Through this hachnosas orchim network, he met one new acquaintance who set him up with a 29-year-old woman who lived in Eretz Yisrael.
Boruch met her numerous times. He couldn’t believe there was someone in the world who understood him so well, someone he could relate to and feel comfortable with. Tears filled his eyes as he described this young woman to a confidante, exclaiming, “Hashem is so kind!”
Boruch became engaged to this woman, and has been freed of his chains of loneliness. He found someone to share his life, someone who lived almost six thousand miles away! Everything changed in the blink of an eye.
Everything changed in the blink of an eye. By orchestrating a few phone calls, Hashem brought two people together from opposite sides of the world to establish their own home. (Excerpted from the ArtScroll book – “Living Emunah on Shidduchim)”
Reprinted from the Parshas Lech Lecha 5785 email of The Weekly Vort.
