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Every Delay or Cancellation

Every Delay or Cancellation

FromLiving Emunah By Rabbi David Ashear


Every Delay or Cancellation

FromLiving Emunah By Rabbi David Ashear

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
May 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Sometimes things don’t go the way we had planned. Whether it is a delay or a cancellation, it is generally frustrating to deal with. We must always remind ourselves that every delay or cancellation is orchestrated from Above. There is no question that whatever potentially frustrating experience we encounter, it's for our best. If we take a pause and recognize that it came from Hashem and calm ourselves down with that realization, it is a great avodat Hashem. Everything that happens to a person is a salvation for him, whether he sees it or not. Most times we are not able to see how, but on some occasions, Hashem does show us how those frustrating moments were really our greatest blessing. Rabbi David Amon, the Rosh Yeshiva of Noam HaTorah in Israel, told me two such stories that he knows first hand. The first happened with a friend of his who heads a different yeshiva in Israel. Last month he asked his wife to drop off the rent money to the landlord of his yeshiva building. The rent for his building is thousands of dollars per month, and for this particular month, he was paying it in cash. He handed his wife the envelope with the money and left to go to his yeshiva. His wife put the envelope in the glove compartment of her car so that when she went out later to do errands she would have it with her. Her young children at home were asking her to take them to the park. She told them, right after she dropped off the envelope she would bring them to the park. She got into the car sometime later and opened the glove compartment to take out the envelope, but it wasn’t there. Her heart skipped a beat. She searched the glove compartment through and through, but the envelope was gone. She told her children she was not going to the park with them until she found the envelope. She was too nervous to tell her husband about what happened, knowing how much fundraising he had to do to collect that rent money. She had the phone number of a rabbi who is known for his unique ability to tell people where their lost objects are located. She called the rabbi and explained her dilemma, barely able to catch her breath. The rabbi told her to calm down and everything would be okay. He told her, the money was still in the glove compartment. She assured the rabbi she checked every part of it. She emptied the entire compartment and it was not there. The Rabbi told her to call him back in an hour. She waited patiently and then called back. The Rabbi told her once again the money is in the glove compartment. And so, she went to check again. This time, she pulled out the entire glove compartment from the car and saw that the envelope had slipped through a crack and went behind the compartment. She was so happy to find it, she went to drop it off and then took her children to the park. When they arrived at the park they saw it was taped off with yellow tape and there were police everywhere. She was told, just a short time before this, there was an Arab there wielding a knife, and that’s why all the police were there then. This is when she realized, the entire delay of thinking she lost the money and waiting to find it, was saving her from being in the park with her little children when that man was going around looking to hurt people with his knife. The second story took place about six months ago. We all heard, Rachmana litzlan, about the two bus stop bombings that took place in Israel. Both were at very busy times in the morning. In fact, moments before one of those bombs went off, one of those bus stations was very crowded, and all of a sudden three buses came, one after another, and picked everyone up. There is a girls’ school that has nearly 1500 students, almost all of them go to one of these bus stops to catch their final bus that brings them directly to the school. And on a normal day, there would have been hundreds of them there at the time that the bomb went off. On this particular day, however, not one girl from that school was there. They had a tr
Released:
May 30, 2023
Format:
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