The last thing one can call me is “lazy.” I arrive at shiurim and at davening on time, and also to the work that HaKadosh Baruch Hu arranges for me, whether it is difficult or easy, I do it with great diligence.
Baruch Hashem I have enough for my livelihood, but not enough to marry off children. Every wedding has its own miracles. I came to repair a lock in someone‘s door. The lock had a complicated magnetic mechanism. I told him that I did not manage to repair it, and that was after two hours of failed attempts. He wanted to pay me for my time, but I refused to take payment. He knew that I needed to marry off children and he said: “Just now I have a very large deal that is supposed to be closed soon. If the deal closes, I will give you hachnasas kallah, one fifth!!!”
A few days later he invited me for a cup of coffee and gave me a dreamlike sum, one fifth of the deal. This is not someone who knows me very much, simply HaKadosh Baruch Hu placed it in his heart to give me. On the day of the wedding, I was missing fifteen thousand shekels to pay that day for the orchestra and the hall... I did something I had never done and I violated the one rule I had accepted upon myself without a vow, not to take loans, and especially not loans without calculation, when I do not know at that time from where I will repay the money.
I stood in a gemach and requested a loan based on income that I was supposed to receive. But the owner of the gemach explained to me that I must bring people with pay stubs who would serve as guarantors for the loan, and also that it takes time to approve such a loan and not from one moment to the next... I said thank you and went on my way. HaKadosh Baruch Hu arranged for me a friend who lent me the money with a happy heart, but in my heart I felt bad about the loan. On the way to the wedding the accountant called me and told me that I am owed an income tax refund. The sum was unbelievable: fifteen thousand nine hundred and sixty!!! Hashem did everything so that I would dance with joy and with goodness of heart!!!
צ.א.ל.
