Welcome to the Daily Holy Story.
Once there was a man and his wife, and they had a daughter who reached the age of marriage. They found a great Talmid Chacham (Torah scholar), and Baruch Hashem (Thank God), their daughter got engaged to the Talmid Chacham. Both families were very poor, but each family accepted the obligation to give $30,000 toward the wedding and the marriage.
As the wedding approached, the man's wife, the girl's mother, turned to her husband and said, “How would you get the $30,000? Do you have $30,000 hidden from me?” He said, “No, I have no money. What are you planning to do?” The Talmid Chacham said, “Hashem ya'azor (Hashem will help).” “How is Hashem going to help us? We have no money,” said the wife. “Hashem will help.”
The woman was not convinced, and she decided to go to Rebbetzin Elyashiv to pour her heart out. The Rebbetzin heard her and went to her husband, the Gaon (great scholar), Rav Elyashiv, and told him the story. Rav Elyashiv summoned the girl's father, and when he came, Rav Elyashiv asked him, “How will you get the money?” “Hashem will help,” Rav Elyashiv told him. “Maybe you should go to work in order to collect money, to get money to make the wedding.” The father told Rav Elyashiv, “No, no, no. I cannot do that. I cannot leave the Torah. I'm learning Torah my whole life. I cannot leave the Torah.”
Rav Elyashiv said, “Okay, maybe what you should do is take some letters from some great Rabbanim (rabbis) and go around collecting for your daughter to get married.” The Talmid Chacham told Rav Elyashiv, “Rabbi, I'm not built for this. I can't go around collecting money.” Rav Elyashiv saw that he had no way out with the man, so he told him, “You know, across the street is my yeshiva. Go to the treasurer, tell him to give you a list of the donors who give money to the yeshiva, and maybe you could write a letter to all these donors, and they will help you, perhaps.” The man agreed. He went across the street to the yeshiva, saw the treasurer, and told him what Rav Elyashiv had said. The treasurer started taking out a whole stack of cards with a list of the donors.
The man told him, “No, no, no, no. All I need is one donor. Just give me one donor. I'll write one letter.” “But maybe the donor won't answer you.” “Hashem will help,” he said. Sure enough, the treasurer took out the name of a donor who used to give $10 a month to the yeshiva and gave the name to the girl's father. The man sat down and wrote a letter: “Dear so-and-so, we are a very poor family, and our daughter just got engaged. We accepted upon ourselves $30,000 toward the wedding, and I don't have the money to marry off my daughter. Please find it in your heart to help me.”
He sent the letter, and his wife was worried. She didn't believe anything was going to happen. Two weeks later, lo and behold, a check for $30,000 from that man arrived in the mail. Everyone was amazed. This man put his trust in Hashem, and Hashem delivered $30,000 to him through his donor. The news started to spread that this man had received a $30,000 check from a man who gave only $10 a month to the yeshiva. The treasurer himself was amazed when he heard it.
One week later, the treasurer got on a plane, flew to America, and went straight to that donor. He looked at him and asked, “How is it that you, who gives only $10 a month to the yeshiva, gave $30,000 to this poor man to marry off his daughter?” The donor looked at the treasurer and told him, “You know, I've been married to my wife for over 10 years, and we had no children. One day, we prayed very hard, and Hashem answered our prayers, and we had a baby girl. We were so happy. Our baby girl grew up to be five years old. At the age of five, she contracted a terrible disease. She was admitted to the hospital, and the doctors were basically giving up on our baby girl. We cried and we cried, and we promised that if Hashem made our baby girl better, we would support a poor family who needed to marry off their children. Sure enough, Hashem performed a miracle, and our baby girl got better. On the day we got the news in the mail that our baby girl's disease was basically gone, I got the same letter from the poor man who needed to marry off his daughter, saying that he needed $30,000. So I went to the bank and asked them for a report of the balance of my savings account. They gave it to me, and it was exactly $30,000. I saw a sign from the heavens that this money must go to the poor man, and I sent them a check for $30,000 from my savings account.”
The story demonstrates to us how Hashem will always give somebody whatever he needs if he puts his trust in Hashem.
Have a wonderful, wonderful day.