15. We have an example of yeshuos that come when one’s emunah is perfect from the following story that 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, and they were waiting anxiously for them to get engaged. 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 said to her mother that she wanted to take a trip with her. The purpose of the trip was to take a break from the heaviness that they were feeling due to the circumstances at home. The mother agreed and she took a day off of work, and they took a bus up to Tzfas. 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 to their 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. And 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.
If you ask, how does one enter the heichal of the Bas Ayin and merit to reside in his shadow and draw from there handfuls of salvations? The first answer is to believe with emunah sheleimah in the greatness of this tzaddik. Reb Yehoshua of Belz zt'l explained the pasuk (Bereishis 30:1-2) בנים לי הבה אלקים התחת ויאמר ברחל יעקב אף ויחר ,אנכי מתה אין ואם אנכי, "Rachel said to Yaakov, 'Give me children, and if not, I am dead.' Yaakov became angry with Rachel, and he said, 'Am I instead of Hashem, Who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?'"
When Yaakov said אנכי אלקים התחת, "Am I instead of Hashem?" Yaakov was explaining to Rachel that there is a difference between when a person goes to Hashem for a salvation and when one goes to a tzaddik. Hashem can help him even if his emunah isn't perfect, but a tzaddik can only help when the person truly and fully believes in the tzaddik. Rachel said אין אם, "and if not..." this is a sign that she doubted whether Yaakov could bring her salvation. She didn't completely believe in the tzaddik's abilities, so Yaakov couldn't help her. He told her כי אנכי האלקים התחת, "Am I instead of Hashem? Hashem can help you even when your emunah is weak, but I can't."
This is as the Chozeh of Lublin zt'l taught on the pasuk (Devarim 28:6) וברוך בבואך אתה ברוך בצאתך אתה, "You shall be blessed when you come, and you shall be blessed when you depart," that when one believes in the tzaddik when he comes to him, he can bless him with salvation, and he is guaranteed that it will also be בצאתך אתה ברוך, that he will be blessed when he leaves and he will receive a yeshuah.
