Amazing Divine Providence Story

0:06I have another guy. He wants to convert, so I told him he has to be in a Jewish community. I said, "Do you live next to a Jewish community?" The nearest Jewish people to me are a few hundred miles away, and... I have to travel somewhere. Well, I can't; I have to move somewhere else. So, how about I listen to this story. I'm telling you, for the last week, I've been repeating this story in my head a thousand times. I can't believe this happened. This guy travels over 3,000 miles, 3,000 miles, moves his whole family—wife, six kids—not so easy, and...

1:153,000 miles, what are you, out of your mind? 3,000 miles with six kids and a wife, traveling 3,000 miles to move to a Jewish community. Now, if that's not enough, you get to the first house and they say no, it's not available. You've just traveled 3,000 miles, prepared ahead, and get to the house, only to find out it's not available anymore. Where are you going to live? Okay, you get to the next house. A few days later, you're told you have to move. Why? Oh, we're selling the house. Yeah, but you say, "I just rented. We did a deal." But that’s what happens. Sorry, sir, you have to leave. You're moving out again. Third house. Going to the house, everything's broken. Sir, yeah, the government says that we have to shut down this location. In a month and a half, two months, maybe four or five houses. Now you're thinking this is all bad, right? You're thinking this is all bad. I got you. It's all bad. Wait till you see the end. He finally gets to the last house. The last house is a decent house, an okay house. It's not the house that he wants to stay in, not the house where he plans to stay, but it's livable until they find a house that's long-lasting. But as it would happen, since they haven't worked in so long, money is gone. You know, that's what happens in life; when you're not a kid and you don't work, there's no money.

2:46That's how life actually happens. By the way, life doesn't just appear. So now, money ran out, traveled 3,000 miles, moved to five different houses—all that stuff. Money is going out, and he tells this friend of his, who's the landlord. He says, "Listen, I'm sorry, but I don't think I'm going to be able to stay here any longer because I can't afford the place. I can't afford the place now." This friend... Landlord, he's not. He became friends just the last two weeks. He's Jewish. And his friend tells him, "Listen, don't worry about it. Just stay here. When's that shiur? When's that shiur Torah that you told me about? When's that shiur Torah you told me about that we went to last week?" He says, "Oh, it's Sunday, 9 o'clock. Let's go. Just stay in the house. Don't worry about the house." Let's go to that shiur. So now he brings a Jew to a shiur Torah. They're attending a shiur Torah, and some rabbi from New York who now lives in Florida happens to look like me. He talks about a few things. One of the things he discusses is intermarriage. And guess what? It's the first time in the Jew's life he's ever heard that intermarriage is not allowed.

4:11It's the first time in a Jew's life that he ever realized what kind of mess he's in. Now, just think about it this way: HaKadosh Baruch Hu took a non-Jew who wants to be a Jew, along with his family and six kids, over 3,000 miles from one coast to the next. Torture them for a month and a half, two months, house to house, as if they're going bar hopping. House to house, house to house. Why? So they could finally end up in one house that has a Jew in it. So they could tell the Jew, "Maybe you want to come to the shiur Torah?" And the Jew says, "You know what, maybe I should." And he goes to the shiur Torah, and he finds out he still has time. It's not too late. I could still do teshuvah. But I have to change now. That may seem like punishment at first, traveling all these miles away, trying going from house to house. By the way, that would tie in with all that happened last week, if anyone hasn't caught on yet. The reality is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu cares enough about each and every one of us that He literally goes to so much trouble, if you will.

5:32Just to make sure that every single one of you has an opportunity to do teshuva. Every single one of you has an opportunity to get the truth at least once in your life, so you don't go up to Shamayim. You don't go up to heaven and say, "I never heard that before, I never knew this." No one goes up to heaven saying, "I never knew this." No one goes up to heaven saying, "I never heard this." You know what they say in heaven when you get up to the Beit Din Shel Ma'alah, yeah, I heard this, but I didn't do it. I chose otherwise. You know what they say to you over there? We know. But there's no more Teshuvah there anymore, and that's what a Jew needs to think about. That's what even a non-Jew needs to think about—what happens after... HaKadosh Baruch Hu will decide the result of all of our actions already from the start. How are you going to get to that point? How are you going to receive that truth? How are you going to receive that reward or punishment? HaKadosh Baruch Hu will decide based on the different moves that you make in your life.

6:55Perhaps this Jew gives the car to someone and earns himself a merit that he'll hear the truth one more time. So Hashem says, okay, I need to get the truth to this guy in Florida. Now, he's surrounded by a bunch of liars that have beards. He's surrounded by a bunch of thieves that steal neshamot. How am I going to get this guy the truth? Okay, you know what? I'm going to take this other Jew from New York, I'm going to bring him to Florida for him. Then I'm going to take this non-Jew from Oregon, and I'm going to also bring him and his family over here to Florida. And then I'm going to connect them, and then somehow they're both going to talk to this guy at the same time, and he's going to find out, "Ooh, this is the truth." Now, is this mercy or is this punishment? If you didn't know. You would think it's punishment. Punishment for the person that drove 3,000 miles. Punishment for the person that moved from New York to here. Punishment for the person that was living a fake life and then found the truth. Punishment for everybody, because it all seems upside down. It all seems like a big problem, a big headache. But when a person considers what happens after this life and who is the One that's running the world,

8:12You see how all of these difficulties, all of these tribulations, are literally the ultimate version of mercy that Hashem has.