Yonah K. was driving one day, listening to a shiur from the Manchester Rosh Yeshiva, R’ Yehuda Zev Segal z”l. He was jarred from his spiritual reverie by the blaring of a car horn and instinctively slammed on his brakes. As he did so, a pickup truck careened around the corner and flew through the intersection without slowing down, just a few feet in front of our stunned driver.
Thanking G-d for saving him from a very dangerous collision, Yonah suddenly realized that there were no other cars on the road. “Then who blew the horn?” he wondered.
He had an idea, and rewound the tape. There, in the middle of a speech given fifteen years earlier and over 3,000 miles away, he heard a very insistent car horn honking.
At the time, the person recording the lecture may have been annoyed that his recording was “ruined.” Yonah can attest, however, that the interruption in the shiur was just as G-d intended it to be, and that the horn was heard right on time.
