Prayer By The Kotel - R. Yaakov Rahimi - TorahAnytime.com

He's a wealthy man from Brooklyn, New York, and he flew to L A to sell. He wanted a car so with his son, he took his little son and his wife. As they're praying by the car so, the little boy says something very strange. What did he see? He saw a Yid davening by the car so, but crying hysterical. Crying and screaming to Hashem in an unusual way. So, the son, the little boy, wasn't sure like like what do you make of this? He wasn't sure what's going on in front of his face. What's this scene? See, he went to his father and he told him, "Daddy, there's a man crying like a baby by the car so. Can you go make sure everything is okay? Like what like what's going on?" The father said, "What do you mean? It's a Jew praying to Hashem. Leave him alone. It's none of my business. You don't just go ask, 'Hey, what are you praying for?' It's none of my business." But the son insisted, "Daddy, the guy is screaming and crying. What's going on? Please, maybe we can help him." The father said, "It doesn't work that way. Derech eretz, you don't just go approach a person while he's praying." The son runs behind the mechitza by the by the car so. He goes to his mother and he tells her, "Mommy, there's a fellow really crying and he's really screaming to Hashem. Maybe we can help him." She tells him, "Go to your dad. Why are you coming to me?" He tells her, "Dad doesn't want to approach him." So, she calls him and she tells her husband, "If your son is begging you for something and it seems that unusual, what does it hurt to approach the guy? Approach him. Okay." So, like a good husband, he listened to his wife and he approached the man. He taps his shoulder and he tells him, "Slicha, excuse me. Ayim efshar la'azor bemashehu? Can I help you with something? Hakol beseder? Is everything okay?" This fellow turns to him. This is this Yid that was crying. He turns to this wealthy Jew from Brooklyn and tells him, "I'm about to make a bar mitzvah for my son, but I have no money. I don't know where I'm getting my pair of tefillin. I don't know where I'm getting a tallis. I don't know." He was wanting to make a bar mitzvah. He told him, "I can't afford a suit for my son. Forget a hall. And I have no one to turn to. I don't have father-in-law. I don't have a father. I don't have brother-in-laws. I have no one to turn to. So, right now by the car so, I'm davening to Hashem, my father, to please please Hashem, "I want my son to be regular like everybody else. Please send me money. Please give me a pair of tefillin, tallis. Please get him a suit to be a regular bar mitzvah kid." And that's what I'm davening for. So, this Jew turns to this wealthy Jew and tells him, "How much already is a pair of tefillin? $500? $700? How much is a suit already in in Israel? How much does it cost already? How much are the the exchange numbers? And he says, 'Tonight, let's make a call. I'm going to pay for tefillin. I'll pay for tallis. I'll pay for a suit. We'll go look at some halls.' And that's what happened. That night, they spoke on the phone and they baruch Hashem, they went shopping and they got him a pair of tefillin and they got him a suit and he got him a hall for the bar mitzvah. So, when he told me this story, this fellow from Brooklyn, he said it like a agav. He said it like as if it's not a big deal. And I told him, "You know what you just said? That's a powerful powerful story. That's a nes. You have a Jew that when he walked to the car so, he had no clue where he's getting tefillin for his for his son. He had no clue he has no one to turn to. But he really davened to Hashem. He really prayed to Hashem. And what happened? Amazon Prime, boom, straight to him. Hashem sends him a pair of tefillin, a hall for the bar mitzvah. He gets a suit. That's the power of real real real tefillah.