He donated a portion of it to the Slonimer Yeshiva and requested that the yeshivah use the funds to pay for an annual seudah in honor of the Bas Ayin.
Reb Shlomo Gross specified some conditions for the seudah- there should be a white tablecloth, divrei Torah and stories of the Bas Ayin should be discussed so the seudos would resemble the seudah he made on the day he had his salvation.
This tradition continues until today in the Slonimer Yeshivos and is still funded by a portion of the money Reb Shlomo Gross earned on the Bas Ayin’s yahrtzeit.
Those who find it difficult to prepare a seudah can make a l'chayim in the Bas Ayin's honor. There are many stories of salvations. Here are a few of them:
One of the gedolei hador shlita had a divorced daughter. For a long time, they couldn’t find a shidduch for her. On the Bas Ayin’s yahrtzeit, the gadol sent some of his students to Tzefas to daven at the Bas Ayin's kever and to make a seudah for the poor people of Tzefas. Two weeks later, his daughter was engaged.
The following happened in ז"תשע in Eretz Yisrael.
The tax department audited someone and discovered that he claimed personal expenses as business expenditures. As the investigation progressed, more evidence of tax evasion was revealed. He remembered the segulah of making a seudah in honor of the Bas Ayin, and he promised that if everything turned out well, he would make a seudas hilulah on the Bas Ayin’s yahrtzeit. Immediately after making this kabbalah, the agents stopped the investigation and said, “This time, we will let it pass. But next time we come, make sure we don’t find anything like this.”
A yungerman from Williamsburg couldn't fall asleep at night and went to a doctor to obtain sleeping pills. But the doctor told him to take an EKG.
When the doctor saw the results, he asked, “When was the last time you visited your cardiologist?”
“About half a year ago. Why? Is something wrong?”
“Something is terribly wrong. Make an appointment as soon as possible.”
“I'm busy for a few days... I will go to the cardiologist afterward.”
The doctor replied, "There is no time to wait. I will arrange the appointment for you.”
After a few clicks on the computer, he said, “You have an appointment tomorrow morning.”
The cardiologist examined his patient and saw that one of the main arteries was almost entirely blocked. The doctor wanted to perform surgery that very day, but the man pleaded that there was something urgent to take care of. He explained, “My bank manager warned me that my bank account would be closed if I didn’t deposit a large sum today.” As he was explaining his financial emergency to the doctor, his phone rang. It was the bank reminding him to bring the money.
The doctor said, “O.K., you can take care of the bank today. But tonight, at midnight, stop eating, and tomorrow, we will do the procedure.”
The yungerman immediately called a friend and asked him to lend him money. He told him about his financial emergency and his operation.
He added, “I performed so many segulos for wealth, and it seems none of them work.”
His friend replied, “Certainly, the segulos helped you. Just think about the miracle that just happened to you now. You went to the doctor because you weren’t sleeping well, which might have saved your life. Perhaps the segulos you perform are helping you in other ways, not specifically for parnassah.”
The point was accepted.
His friend added, “Tonight is the Bas Ayin’s yahrtzeit. Why don’t you light a candle and say some Tehillim in his merit as a segulah for a successful operation tomorrow.”
The yungerman replied, “You just reminded me that this morning, in beis medresh after Shacharis, people were speaking about the segulah of making a yahrtzeit seudah in honor of the Bas Ayin, and I mocked it. I said, ‘Last year, I made a seudah for ten Yidden, and did it help me? Throughout the year, I borrow from one person to pay off another.’ And then, someone in the beis medresh told me, ‘How do you know the segulah didn’t work? Perhaps you weren’t destined to live this year, and because you made a seudah in the Bas Ayin’s merit, you are alive today?’ Now it seems that he was speaking with ruach hakodesh. Perhaps my life was saved because of that seudah.”
That night, he made a seudah in honor of the Bas Ayin. The meal ended before midnight when he began his fast.
His surgery was successful.
In the year 5780, the bachurim from the Boyaner yeshiva made a kabbalah that if thirty of their bachurim become chasanim that year, they would make a seudah on the yahrtzeit.
That year, the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit was on Shabbos. On Sunday, before the yahrtzeit, there were 27 chasanim. Thursday night, the bachurim called me to tell me that the 30th bachur was getting engaged that night in Beitar. (They had to make quick arrangements to arrange a seudah in honor of the Bas Ayin on Shabbos. I asked them why they chose the number 30, and they themselves didn't know. But this is an example of the miracles that happen in the merit of the Bas Ayin.)
The following year, bachurim from Ahavas Torah, the yeshiva of Reb Tzvi Meir Zilberberg Shlita, made a kabbalah that if twenty-one bachurim become a chasan, they would make a seudah on the yahrtzeit. Twenty bachurim got engaged, but one of the bachurim left the yeshiva. A few days before the yahrtzeit, the 21st bachur became a chasan.
