“Ribono shel olam!!! What shall we do now?! I forgot the stroller and the pacifier of the baby at home, and now we are more than an hour away from home at a family event, how shall we manage?”
We had already arrived at the hall in honor of the bar mitzvah celebration of my beloved son. Some of the guests were already trickling into the hall to rejoice with us and to wish mazal tov, and the stroller and the pacifier that is attached to a fixed cloth diaper had remained behind. We arranged for a babysitter to care for him during the celebration so that we would be free to receive the guests with joy, but without basic means such as a stroller and a pacifier, it is impossible to manage...
I thought at least to buy pacifiers in a nearby store, but the pacifier without the diaper that is attached to it would not achieve its purpose.
I lifted my eyes to heaven in a request for salvation, although I did not see any possible salvation on the horizon.
Suddenly I noticed a message from a friend from my city who said in his message: “I am leaving shortly for the bar mitzvah, and if you forgot something at home, I would be happy to bring it to you.” I called him and told him that I had forgotten a stroller and a pacifier. But then I remembered that the house was locked and I had not left a key with anyone... He suggested bringing his own stroller. I thought that was half a consolation.
But then he called again and asked: “Perhaps it is possible to jump through one of the porches?” It was uncomfortable, but I answered affirmatively...
My friend drove to my building, knocked by the neighbors, jumped through the porches, and went inside. I guided him by phone where the items were and where the key was, which I had entirely “by chance” forgotten in the pocket of the vest. With it he opened the door and was able to take the stroller out of the house to the car. There is no need to describe the relief and the salvation that we merited from Hashem, and it completed the perfect event!!!
I asked him what made him even think to even ask such a question about whether we had forgotten something. And he answered that he himself did not know, and even felt a little foolish asking such a question, but something inside him pushed him to ask nevertheless.
I felt that in the merit of the fact that I accepted it with love and did not say a single word to my wife about the fact that we had forgotten the stroller, but instead calmed her and took the blame upon myself, perhaps in that merit I merited the salvation...
ח.מ.ד
