HaShem's Idea Is Better Than Yours, A Personal Money Miracle Story (6 Minutes)

1:37Hashem, why do I care about money? But the world has 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. So anyway, my wife tells me, "Honey, we need $6,000 by tomorrow." I said, "Okay, honey, so pay it." She goes, "Honey, we don't have it." I said, "Okay, so how much are we missing?" She said, "The whole $6,000." I said, "Okay, so Hashem..." Now 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. Listen, we're trying to do His will. He brought us this far, what, to destroy us? Not a moment passes. Me finishing the sentence was sitting with my wife, both of us having full emunah (faith) in Hashem 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, reminiscing that not too long ago, this amount of money was like lunch money. Now, there was no money to pay bills. Not a moment passed when I received a phone call from an unidentified number.

2:57for the, I don't know, maybe first and 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 a lot of strange people in the world, so you can't just pick up any phone call. And I pick up, and the guy on the other end says, "Hey, I've been looking for you all the time." Oh, he's Israeli. Why do you have everything on my phone now, Hashem? Who is this BeIgav? Oh, it's Dudu! Dudu BeIgav. Oh, you remember Dudu from back in the day? Eight years ago. Eight years 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 $5,000 that I gave him magically evaporated into thin air. Now he calls me. I thought, okay, maybe he's actually going to do it. I said, "Yeah, it's my bank," and then I send him a text, "Thank you." He hangs up the phone.

4:13Moments later, or perhaps an hour later, I get a text saying all the money has been deposited. I look at my bank account online and see this $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 law of God. 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 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. Your thoughts are not My thoughts. I thought, okay, maybe I'm going to rob a bank. Maybe I'm going to beg for change. Maybe I'm going to ask my brother for a loan. Maybe I'm going to ask my father. You consider all these different things, thinking, "Oh, I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that." So many different options come to mind. But Hashem says, "None of these are My options. I'm going to give you the money from eight years ago that you forgot about." The money you forgot about, that's the one I'm going to give you.

5:27something extraordinary occurs, they will rationalize it logically rather than acknowledging it as divine intervention. Miracles require faith to be recognized. Amazing things happen that are beyond the natural. You're always going to make an excuse. No, no, he was probably in town, and someone told him about you. So 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. So we're going to rationalize miracles. Oh.