HaShem Can Help you in Unthinkable Ways

1:40You think of a solution? That's not what I'm thinking. Whatever solution you think is gonna happen most likely is not gonna happen. Stop giving me ideas, because my idea you can't think of. You can't think of my idea. I'll give you an example. I tell people that I live a life of miracles. I And we see it all the time. Anytime someone has an emunah issue, I tell them, listen, call me. If it's really urgent, call me. Most people call me and it's not really urgent, but they tell me it's urgent, which is the reason I don't ever pick up the phone until I know for sure it's urgent. There are too many phone calls. I mean, I love people, but there are too many phone calls. But you just can't talk to every single person that calls you, or you're never going to actually get to studying and actually prepare for the shiur. It's going to be the same shiur every week, no progress, 50 weeks in a row, the same shiur. So, yes, the phone calls. One time we had bills come in, you know that happens once a month. We were still living in New York, and my wife told me...

3:02We need six thousand dollars by tomorrow. I said, "Okay, good, so pay it." I stopped looking at the bank account. After losing millions and millions of dollars, you tend to not want to look at the bank account anymore. I didn't realize there's zero in the bank. My wife knew there's zero in the bank. So, I was focusing on learning my Torah. I was focusing on... Hashem, why do I care about money? But the world needs money, so what are you going to do? It happens. This thing called a bill shows up every month. Even though you tell it, don't come back, don't come back, it keeps coming back. It's always on time, same time every month. Anyway, my wife says to me, "Honey, we need $6,000 by tomorrow." I said, "Okay, honey, so pay it." She goes, "Honey, we don't have." I said, "Okay, so how much are we missing?" She said, "The whole $6,000." I said, "Okay, so, Hashem, what are we going to do?"

4:02Now it's your problem. What am I going to do? It's your problem. We start talking, my wife and I, I'm talking, I'm like, listen, Hashem made enough miracles for us. We're trying to do His will. He brought us this far, what, to destroy us? Not a moment passes. I was sitting with my wife, both of us, Baruch Hashem, had full emunah that things were going to be okay. We had no idea how, but we knew things were going to be okay. We were laughing at the situation that just not too long ago was like lunch money. Now there's no money to pay bills. Not a moment passes, and I get a phone call from an unidentified number. For the first and possibly last time in my life, I actually pick up the phone. I usually don't pick up the phone if I don't know the number. There are many strange people in the world, so you can't just pick up any phone. But I picked up, and the person on the other line says, "Hey, I've been looking for you." Oh, he's Israeli. "How are you? How's everything?" I respond, "I'm fine, Baruch Hashem. Who is this?" He says, "Oh, it's Dudu." "Who's Dudu?" I ask. "Oh, you remember Dudu from 8 years ago?"

5:27Years I haven't heard from this guy. He's like, "Listen, I'm really, really sorry that I never paid you back the money that you lent me. Please give me your bank account. I'm going to the bank now." Eight years he didn't answer a phone call, eight years he disappeared, eight years the five thousand dollars that I gave him magically evaporated into the sun. Now he calls me. I said, okay, maybe he's actually going to do it. So I said, yes, it's my bank. I sent him a text and he's like, thank you, thank you. Then he hangs up the phone. Moments later, or maybe an hour later, I get a text from him saying, "Oh, the money is deposited." I look at my bank account online and I see there’s $6,000. I gave him five, and he gave me six. I call him back and say, I'm sorry, I can't take interest; it's against the laws of the Torah. This guy that I'm connected to now, I can't take interest. He goes, I know. I watch. I watch you. I see you online. I see some of the things you do. I see some of the zikui harabim you participate in. You send a book to my friend and this and that. I want to give you a thousand dollars as a present to help you do zikui harabim. Exactly six thousand dollars shows up in the bank.

6:51Your thoughts, not my thoughts. I thought, okay, maybe I'm gonna rob a bank. Maybe I'm gonna go beg for change. Maybe I'm gonna ask my brother for a loan. Maybe I'm gonna ask my father. All these different things. You ask, oh, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this. All million and a half different options. Hashem says it's not even one of my options. I'm gonna give you the money from eight years ago that you forgot about. You forgot about the money. I'm gonna give you that money. The money you forgot about, that's the one I'm gonna give you. someone witnesses something extraordinary, they will attempt to rationalize it through natural explanations. Amazing things happen that are beyond the natural. If you don't have that belief, you're always going to make an excuse. For instance, if a person doesn't believe in God's providence, they'll likely dismiss events as coincidence. No. No, he was probably, he's probably in town and someone told him about you. Though we're gonna make an excuse and rationalize the miracles. Oh, it's raining red. Yeah. No, it's probably the air, you know, it never rained red before, but yeah, it's probably the air from the pollution. People will rationalize miracles this way. Amazing things happen that are beyond the natural. You're always going to make an excuse. No, no, he's probably in town and someone told him about you—though we're going to make an excuse and rationalize the miracles. Oh, it's raining red? Yeah, no, it's probably the air. You know, it never rained red before, but yeah, it's probably the air from the pollution, though we're going to rationalize miracles. Oh.