Rabbi David Pinto | Just in Time for Shabbos

I would like to tell you a story that happened a few years ago, when I was in Caracas, and I had to come back to France via Frankfurt-Lyon. That was on Thursday. Unfortunately, the weather was bad, so we left Caracas late. And where I was sitting, it was next to a lady. And it was very, very, very, very, very hard to me that I have to sit all night next to that lady. And sometimes she wanted to talk to me. I did myself that I don't understand her language. And then the time came that I had to sleep, to extend the seat, to lie, but I couldn't, because that's what she did, as well. Can you imagine, חס וחלילה, like, two people, a man and a woman lying like that? So I had to stay sitting all the time, all night. I arrived to Frankfurt late. I knew that I’m going to miss the flight to Frankfurt-Lyon, but I had to run to change the terminal. I run, I run. I arrive at the gates. They told me: You see? The plane is leaving to Lyon. Too late. We can’t... There is nothing we can do for you, but there is in two hours another flight. But I said: It's Friday, Erev Shabbos, Shabbat. How can I do it? I was very, very, very sad. What am I going to do in Frankfurt all Shabbat? I asked the people there, And there is no way that you can get me there? She said: No, you see the plane is moving. I said: There is no way that I can get to that plane? So they start laughing. They said: The only way if the plane has a problem and it comes back. I said: What happens if it comes back, would you let me in? They said: Yes. They started laughing. That's means it's impossible. It's just a thing that never happened. I said: Hashem, all night I didn’t sleep, all night I closed my eyes, all night I focused myself only thinking Torah, so that I will not have any bad thoughts. Hashem, do something for me. I have to be in Lyon, in the Yeshiva, for Shabbat. And I was sitting, watching the plane moving, and suddenly, five minutes, ten minutes, the plane is not moving. I looked at them, they looked at me. Problem in the plane. The technician had come in and the plane has to come back. After ten minutes exactly, they tell me: What you did so that the plane come back? I said: I did nothing. It’s Hashem. All the way, I was thinking, what helped me, that I would take the plane, it’s Hashem Who did. Hashem is the בעל הבית. When you watch your eyes, Hashem changes everything. Even a plane that is supposed to take off, it was perfect, Hashem can do something that it will come back, you’ll get in and you’ll fly. When I arrived to Lyon, I arrived half an hour before Shabbat. That was my story. All this because וימאן, because all night, Caracas-Frankfurt, I watched my eyes, so that חס וחלילה I will not have any bad thoughts.