I’m a Chasid of the Noam Elimelech, who teaches us in
B’shalach, Parshas Ha’mon, that no Jew should ever have to work,
if we have proper faith. We would all be zoche to ‘lechem min
hashamayim’ - dollars from heaven.
So since the 21st of Adar is the Rebbe’s yartzeit, I decided to ask
Hashem for a million dollars, work-free. That day I was in Crown Heights and
went to daven in 770, quietly begging Hashem, “Please, Tatty, give me 1
million dollars!”
I finished Shmona Esrei and suddenly a young man approached me, saying,
“Your music is amazing! It’s mamash like Hashem is speaking
through you. It’s like nevuah!” Suddenly, he pulled out three $20
bills and said, “Here, I want you to have this, because I love your
music.”
I said to him, “Come to my car and I’ll give you an album.
It’s too hard for me to take without giving.”
At the car he said, “Drive me to the ATM machine, I want to give you
another hundred.” I told him that just today I started praying for a
million dollars, work-free. “So,” I asked myself, “is this
how Hashem is gonna give it to me?”
I drove him to the ATM machine and I prepared a bag of discs for him. He
gave me the money. He really didn’t want anything in return, and he
added, “I just gave you $200.”
Right there, I said to Hashem, “Ribono Shel Olom, I can’t do
this. This is too hard. If this is the way I have to get the whole million, I
just can’t take it! Please, give me the million without having to take
from ANYONE, just from YOU, Tatte, only from You!”
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