Living Emunah

Salvations in an Instant


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The salvations of Hashem can always come in an instant. Our belief and hope in Hashem's ability to help us is a very important part of our service to Him. It never matters if it looks like we can or cannot be helped, and it never matters how long we have already waited. Hashem can always bring salvations in the simplest ways. A woman related that after twenty-one weeks of pregnancy, her doctor suddenly told her that she was at high risk of giving birth too early for the baby to survive. She reached out to Jewish organizations for help in finding a specialist, but they were unable to find anyone for her. The community organized a tehillim group on her behalf, and a couple of weeks later her doctor transferred her to a hospital closer to her home, which he believed had a better team of doctors to handle her specific issue. Once she was admitted, the first doctor she saw told her that she was in the middle of conducting a research study on the very condition she had. She explained that this woman was a perfect candidate to try a procedure that had never been done this late in pregnancy. No other hospital in the country would have offered her this procedure. Baruch Hashem, it was performed successfully, and the baby was born perfectly healthy after a full nine months and two days. The hospital, which was literally a five-minute drive from her house, was the one that Hashem brought her to in order to save her baby. A man related that he had a tenant living in his basement for five years. The first three years were good, but then one day the tenant became angry with them and stopped paying rent. For the last two years, they suffered a great deal of aggravation from him. He turned the basement into a disaster; it became completely unrecognizable. It was an illegal apartment, and since the tenant knew that in the laws of New York they often side with tenants, he took full advantage of the situation. On one occasion, he even called the police and had their twenty-year-old son arrested, claiming that he had scratched him — which was completely fabricated. The hot water tank was accessible only through the basement, and out of spite he repeatedly shut it off. The police told the family they were not allowed to enter because he was living there. This past year, from after Yom Kippur until after Sukkot, they had no hot water at all and had to go to neighbors to use their shower. No one was able to help them with this. All the lawyers they contacted said that the tenant had the upper hand and that they would have to comply with whatever he demanded. Recently, this man decided to strengthen his belief in Hashem's power to help him. He worked on his emunah, bitachon, and tefillah. The tenant, wanting to aggravate them even more, called HPD to complain that he was not getting hot water. The next day, inspectors came down to check the property, and when they saw that it was illegal, they told the tenant he had to vacate within two weeks. They posted a notice and left, but he tore it down. Two weeks later, they returned with the police and the Red Cross. It took three hours to remove him because he resisted, but in the end they succeeded in getting him out. Everyone told the man they had never heard of HPD removing a tenant like that. Here, Hashem used the tenant himself to bring about their salvation and remove him. Another man related that he had been without an income for a couple of years, and with a large family his situation had become very difficult. He had sent out his résumé to over twenty companies and received little to no response. Recently, he accepted upon himself to add a significant amount of hours to his Torah study. After that, the salvation came quickly. The very next day, he ran into a friend who had no connections at all in the business world. He was a rabbi in a yeshivah and certainly did not seem like a useful resource for finding a job. But the man said to himself, Hashem is the One who gives me parnassah — it does not matter whom I ask. He told this rabbi that he was looking for a job. The rabbi replied that he knew of a company that was desperately looking for someone, and he made the connection. Within a week, the man had the job. Salvation can always come in any form. It is up to us to believe it and to feel it in our hearts.
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Living EmunahBy Ashear, Rabbi David

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