‘Solutions belong to Hashem’
I live in an area where there is no regular transportation, and therefore I very often travel with rides, and almost every time I have wondrous stories of hashgacha. [Of course, one should not take any instruction from here to take rides.]
Once, I stood at an intersection for an hour and a half trying to stop a ride in the direction of Meron. A moment before I despaired, a car stopped that was traveling exactly toward Meron.
The driver was a bit naive, but along the way a conversation developed about putting on tefillin. He explained to me that he had been in a shiur, and the Rav said that one must check the tefillin, and if the tefillin were not checked at least once in seven years, then the tefillin are invalid.
He finished his words with a chilling sentence: “Since that speech, I stopped putting on tefillin for several years.” I was shocked, and I put a Rav who rules halachah on the line, who said that he should certainly put on the tefillin even if he did not check them. I explained to him that apparently he did not properly understand the Rav in the lecture that he heard.
He immediately accepted upon himself to put on tefillin, and I also connected him with a Heaven-fearing avrech [young, married man] in his area who would help him bring the tefillin to be checked by a Heaven-fearing sofer.
Now I understood why the ride had been delayed for so long. Everything had been worthwhile in order to merit a Jew with the mitzvah of tefillin...
After some time, I once again found myself stuck waiting for a ride for a long hour. I became impatient and frustrated. But this time I remembered the story with the tefillin, and I immediately calmed down, for I already knew that there is a reason for the delay, and certainly HaKadosh Baruch Hu has His reasons...
At last, the long-awaited ride arrived. I did not see any special story, but I understood that one does not need to understand everything, and to Hashem belong the solutions! ע.ש.
