14. Here is an example of yeshuos that come when one’s emunah is perfect, which we heard from the baalei hamaaseh:
In Kislev, ב"תשפ, a family read in our kuntreisim about the great benefit of studying the holy sefer Bas Ayin, and that this study is mesugal for all types of yeshuos. This family had two older daughters who were anxiously waiting to find their bashert. The family decided that they would study Bas Ayin every Shabbos, and they hoped that in this merit, their daughters would get engaged.
This went on for about a year. One day, the older daughter told her mother that she wanted to take her out for the day. The purpose of the trip was to get a break from the heaviness they felt at home due to their circumstances – two older daughters, without a shidduch. The mother agreed and took a day off work, and took a bus up to Tzefas. When they arrived in Tzfas, they discovered that it was the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit. It was the 12th of Kislev! They hadn’t realized that when they set out on their outing. Of course, they went to the Bas Ayin's kever to daven that there should be shidduchim in their family.
It wasn't easy to get to the kever of the Bas Ayin that year due to the heavy rains. But with siyata dishmaya and Hashem's wonders, they got to the kever around ten minutes before shekiyah. They poured out their hearts there and made a kabbalah that when they became engaged, they would return to praise Hashem for the miracle.
As soon as they left the cemetery, they waited for the bus to take them back home. While waiting for the bus, the father/husband called to tell them that someone had just called him with a shidduch offer. It took just a few days, and the shidduch was finalized. Needless to say, they continued studying the Bas Ayin. A few months later, the second daughter was engaged, as well.
Now, we come to the part of the story related to our subject. At the end of Av, they traveled to the kever of the Bas Ayin to praise Hashem for the miracles that occurred to them and davened there so that the next daughter in line should also find her bashert. They made a kabbalah that they would return during the week of the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit to praise Hashem when the salvation comes. And because they believed so much in the salvation, they added that if this daughter's chasunah will be scheduled for the week of the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit, they would return some other time to the kever to praise Hashem for His salvation.
A shidduch offer came immediately, and the chasunah was scheduled for the 16th of Kislev. This story shows the strength of pure emunah. They were davening at the end of Av, and they already suspected that perhaps their daughter would be engaged and that the chasunah would be scheduled during the week of the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit! But they had already seen the miracles that this tzaddik performs, and they trusted in Hashem that the salvation would come quickly. They believed that it was feasible that the chasunah would be in Kislev, and so it was.
Now we will tell a story of the opposite extreme, to what occurs when there isn't emunah. Fifteen bachurim sat together and made a kabbalah that if they got engaged by the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit, they would make a seudah in his tzaddik's honor. Indeed, fourteen of them became chassanim before the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit, ב"תשפ. One of the bachurim laughed at the idea; he didn't believe that this segulah (of making a kabbalah to make a seudah in honor of the bas Ayin) could bring yeshuos. Indeed, this bachur was the only one in the group who didn't get engaged. This bachur told us this story, and with tears, he begged that we write it to increase emunah among Yidden, so he should have a kaparah.
A story related to our topic occurred with the Bas Ayin himself. He went with a group of people to daven at kivrei tzaddikim in Tzfas. When they came to one of the kevarim, he heard one man say to his friend, "Who says that this tzaddik is actually buried here?" The Bas Ayin turned to him and said, "Whoever doubts a mesorah accepted by Klal Yisrael is an apikores." We tell this story to remind all those who think they are wise and ask questions, 'Who said?' and the like, that this cools off the emunah.
