In The Best Hands

Living Emunah By Rabbi David Ashear

One of the reasons we are supposed to feel calm and composed in all situations is because we are always in the best hands, the hands of our loving Father, HaKadosh Baruch Hu . During difficult times, internalizing this fact can help a person so much. A woman related that she had to travel from Minnesota to Lakewood for a family wedding. She was going to return by herself, while her husband was going to take her son to Denver Yeshiva after the wedding. They found flights to Philadelphia, and then they would take a taxi to Lakewood. When it came time for the woman to go back on Thursday, she assumed the flight was from the same airport that she arrived in, and so she called the driver to take her from Lakewood to the Philadelphia airport. Her husband had already printed out her boarding pass and she had it with her in her pocketbook. While in transit, she was very busy catching up on missed phone calls and messages and did not pay attention to the road at all. When they arrived at the airport, the driver asked her which airline and she told her. She then got out, went through security, got to the gate, and finally boarded the plane. She needed to check her ticket to see what seat she had. When she looked at the ticket, she couldn't believe her eyes. It said that the flight was leaving out of Newark airport in New Jersey. She wondered how they let her on the flight if she was in the Philadelphia airport. She then asked the flight attendant where exactly they were to which she was told, Newark. That is when she realized the miracle that Hashem just did for her. She asked for a taxi to take her to Philadelphia airport and somehow the driver decided, on her own, to take her to Newark, the airport she was really supposed to leave from. And she really had to get back that day because she needed to cook the entire Friday for the Sheva Berachot they were making on Shabbat. She thought to herself, we may think we are supposed to be heading in a certain direction, but it doesn't always work out the way we want, because Hashem is always steering us in the direction He knows we need to go in. She is currently going through a very troubling time with one of her children. She prays for salvation every day, but now she knows even more that Hashem is always leading her to the circumstances she needs to be in to get where she has to be in this world. Sometimes a person needs help but he doesn't know where to turn to get it. But what he may not realize is that Hashem has already been planning out his salvation. A man from Bet Shemesh related, one day he overheard a conversation between two people that learn in his kollel . One of them, we'll call Shmuel, said that the electric company did not send him a bill for a few months and then they sent him a bill for 6,000 shekel in one shot. He did not have the money to pay for it and was hoping that the electric company would allow him to pay in small increments. That night everybody left the kollel at about 11pm and the only ones left were Shmuel and the one telling the story. Suddenly there was a loud knock at the door. It was two Americans who only spoke English. They asked if there was someone there currently learning Torah. The man telling the story told them yes. They came in and saw Shmuel learning and they went over to him and handed him a thousand dollars cash. They said they were meeting with someone who suddenly said, in the middle of the meeting, he wanted to give a thousand dollars to a man who's learning. They told him they would find someone. This was the nearest Bet Midrash so they came there and gave the money to Shmuel who was learning. While they were there, they took out a few hundred dollars more from their own pockets and gave him more money. A minute later two people came in and sat down and started learning. The hashgacha of Hashem here was so precise, He caused those Americans to come to this kollel exactly when only Shmuel was learning so that he would get all the money that he needed to pay his electric bill. Hashem knows about everything a person's going through and is always taking the best care of us. If we could always feel that we are in His hands, it will help us in so many ways.