Welcome to the Daily Chizuk (encouragement). If a person is ready to despair, the Pasuk (verse) tells us: Yachel Yisrael el Hashem—Hope to Hashem for salvation; Ki im Hashem hachesed—because Hashem is full of kindness; veharbeh imo pedut—and Hashem has an abundance of redemption, which means Hashem has many ways to help, even ones that you could never think of. You may find yourself in a situation that seems very bleak, and there's no way out—be it with an illness, trouble with the authorities, or a Shalom Bayit (marital harmony) issue—and there really is no way out. But that's only as far as human calculation goes. But the Pasuk tells us, Harbeh imo pedut: Hashem has countless ways of bringing salvation that are totally beyond what you could have ever imagined in your wildest dreams.
A man told me the other day that he was by his friend's business when the customs department came in and charged them with a crime called transshipping. They proceeded to put yellow tape around the whole office and said this was their second offense, the business was going to be shut down, and they were all going to jail. The customs agent said, “It's the end of the day now. You can't do any more business, but they'll be back tomorrow at 9 a.m. to discuss further.” There was a rabbi in the office at the time, Rabbi Moshe Malka alav hashalom (peace be upon him), who passed away last year, and the businessman begged the rabbi for help. They said they would stop trying to cut corners and be more honest, but pleaded, “Rabbi, please help us get out of this.” The rabbi got up to pray for 45 minutes straight and told the people afterward, “Don't worry, the problem is solved.” They didn't believe it. They said, “That's it? Can't be?” The rabbi told them, “Come into the office tomorrow morning as usual, and the customs agents will not be back.” The businessmen were hopeful but skeptical. They came in the next day very nervous at 9 a.m., but there was no sign of the customs agents. 10 o'clock came, then 11 o'clock, then 11.30, and still no sign. Rabbi Malka came in at 11.30, cut the yellow tape, and said, “I told you to go back to doing your business as usual. They're not coming.” They said, “Rabbi, what did you pray for yesterday?” He said, “I prayed that they should all forget your names, they should forget your business, they should forget you did anything wrong.” And the man said, “It's been 18 years, and they still haven't shown up.” This is a clear yeshuat Hashem (salvation from Hashem) saying: Hashem, something they could never have imagined would happen.
I recently spoke to a Holocaust survivor. His name is Rabbi Kornreich, and he said he was the only survivor from his whole family. After the war, he had nothing left, nowhere to go, but he was determined to rebuild. He got married, and a few years went by, but they didn't have any children. They went to a doctor who asked his wife where she was during the war, and it turned out the Nazis gave her things that destroyed her reproductive organs. The doctor told them, “She will never have children.” The couple was devastated. Their only hope for the future was to build a family, and now it wasn't going to happen. The Rabbi said he started praying and praying, and going to tzadikim (righteous people) for Berachot (blessings), and after eight years, miraculously, his wife was expecting. He said he now has over a hundred grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Harbeh imo pedut.
Even when there's no way out, Hashem always has a way to bring the salvation. Have a great day.