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 had a doubt that perhaps their daughter would be engaged and that the chasunah would be held 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 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.
16. Some years ago, there was a Slonimer chassid in Tzefas named Reb Shlomo Gross z’l. He sold kerosene for his parnassah, but barely earned a living.
On the night of the Bas Ayin’s yahrtzeit, Reb Shlomo davened at the Bas Ayin’s grave. That night, the Bas Ayin came to him in a dream and said, “I appreciate that you davened at my grave, but why didn't you make a seudah for me?"
In the morning, Reb Shlomo Gross gathered ten people, and they made a seudah in honor of the Bas Ayin. He couldn't afford to make the seudah alone, but he put out a white tablecloth, and each person brought something to the meal. At the seudah, they discussed divrei Torah and stories of the Bas Ayin.
After the seudah, Reb Shlomo bought a lottery ticket and won a huge sum of money. 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.
Thousands of people had their yeshuah because they made a seudah in the Bas Ayin's yahrtzeit. We will bring just a few:
The Seudah
There is a renowned segulah to prepare a seudah in honor of the baal hilulah, the Bas Ayin. In the merit of this meal, comes great and wonderful yeshuos.
The Rebbe of Tosh zt'l (Avodas Avodah) said, "I know a family in Eretz Yisrael who needed a yeshuah and rachamim. They made a seudah in honor of the holy baal hilulah and were saved above the rules of nature."
On the 12th of Kislev, a tragedy occurred in Jersey City, New Jersey, when murderers entered a Jewish supermarket with weapons. There were casualties, r'l. We received a letter from one of the people who was saved:
