She had just turned seventeen. No one understood why the father rushed to make this shidduch. He had recently married off a daughter, and there was another kallah in the home. Why did he rush to get this daughter engaged, and why so young? But the answer is that the Bas Ayin was pushing things around in heaven so that this bachur would have his yeshuah.
I heard a similar story from a chosson who was already quite old. It was hard for him to find a shidduch (due to a specific problem). In the year א"תשפ, two weeks before the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit, he was at the Bas Ayin's kever, and he made a kabbalah that if he will be engaged before the yahrtzeit, he will return by the yahrtzeit to praise Hashem, and he will host a seudah. Ten days later, he became a chosson.
There is a benefit in this ניסא פרסומי, revealing the miracles that occurred and נפלאותיו בכל שיחו, to tell the wonders that Hashem performs because, in addition to the obligation to praise Hashem for all the kindness He gives us, there is also the benefit that others should learn of these miracles, and learn to do the same. Many of our Acheinu Bnei Yisrael need yeshuos, and when they hear of the miracles that occurred to these baalei maaseh, they will also want to do something similar, and they too will merit salvations, soon, and they will emerge from darkness to light.
An example of this is from the story we wrote above about a family in Tzfas who found an apartment and sold their old apartment after making kabbalos to make seudos in honor of the Bas Ayin. When this salvation occurred, the wife in this story told her mother about it. Her mother had older children in her home. She hadn't done a shidduch in ten years, and several children were waiting for their shidduch. She performed this segulah, and in one year, three of her children got married and established their homes.
We can also learn from these stories that the Bas Ayin is standing and praying for Bnei Yisrael to help them. And therefore, open your mouth wide and ask for great things. Don't be satisfied with small requests; you can ask for a lot, and Hashem will grant it to you, as it states (Tehillim 81:11) ואמלאהו פיהו הרחב, "open your mouth wide [to ask for a lot], and I shall fill it."
A yungerman was walking around Meah Shearim (where there are many second-hand stores), looking for a store that sells second-hand washing machines. As he went from store to store, he met up with Reb Motel Rothman Shlita. The yungerman expressed his financial hardships to Reb Motel, and he told him about his washing machine that broke, and that he couldn't afford a new one.
Reb Motel tried to convince him not to buy a second-hand machine because you never know what problems will suddenly come up. But the yungerman insisted that he couldn’t afford a new machine. His only option was to buy a used machine.
Reb Mottel Rothman told him, “Today is the Bas Ayin’s yahrtzeit. Many miracles happen through the tefillos said at his grave. Let’s go there, and b’ezras Hashem, you will have a yeshuah.”
Throughout the trip, this yungerman had one thing in mind: washing machines. He was debating whether he should buy a new machine or a used one, and if he bought a new one, he contemplated where he could get the money, which size and brand to buy, and so on.
Finally, they arrived at the tzion, and each person there prayed and expressed their personal needs, aspirations, and desires. They davened that Hashem grant them salvations in the merit of the holy tzaddik, the Bas Ayin.
Then they went to Meron and davened at Reb Shimon bar Yochai’s kever. It was then time for the celebration. They went to the supermarket in Meron to buy food for the yahrtzeit seudah, which they planned to conduct in Meron.
As they left the supermarket, the yungerman’s cell phone rang. A while back, he had given tzedakah to an organization, and was entered into a raffle. They called to inform him he had just won a brand new washing machine!
Reb Motel Rothman says he also had a yeshuah on that day – a far greater one. Because he davened for more important matters than a washing machine. The lesson is: When the gates of heaven are open, and we can ask for whatever we want, we should be wise and ask for great things. We shouldn't limit ourselves. There's no limit to how much Hashem can give us.
