Money, Money, Money | Rabbi Fischel Schachter

So here I am, I'm, like, three weeks away from a wedding of one of my daughters, and according to my calculations, I’m anywhere between $10,000-15,000 behind. So coming into Rosh Hashanah, so really there’s a question whether Rosh Hashanah you’re supposed to daven for money or not. Some say, the second day yes, first day not, but let me tell you, I blew it. I mean, the entire Rosh Hashanah I was just: Money, money, money. I'm telling you, תקיעה - Moneeeeeey! שברים - Money, money, money. תרועה - Money, money, money, money, money. תקיעה גדולה - Moneeeeeeeeeeeeeey! It was just, like, it was on my mind. Motzei Rosh Hashanah, I come home, I check the mail. There's a letter from the bank. I open up the letter and it says that because of an accounting, some kind of a mistake, the bank owes you money. We're going to send you a compensation check. And due to security reasons, it's going to come in a separate check, and we're not telling you the amount. And I was so excited. I grabbed my kids, we danced around the table. And I said: You see? בטרם נקרא אליך, even before you call out to Hashem, he answers you. And then my daughter says: Here, here's the check. We take out the check, and I tell my daughter, the Kallah, You know, even if it's not the whole $15,000, even if it’s only 10,000, even if it's only 5,000, but the point is, you see that Hashem is answering you. So tell me, how much is the check for? And she’s - Daddy, you want to know? -Yes! I still have it, it's about 20 years old. It was for... one penny. One penny? It cost them more to send the letter, it cost them more to have this person type up the letter. You want to know why I still have the check? I wanted to deposit it. They told me it cost 25 cents to deposit a penny check. So my wife came to me and said, Hashem heard you the first time. You need money. And at one point, it's like - You want money? Here, here’s money. I can give you money, okay? I know what you need. Trust me! Being able to trust Hashem when we don't see things in front of us is the key to our שמחת החיים. And the key to our שמחת החיים, say the Sefarim HaKedoshim, is directly connected to Shemiras Einayim. יראו עינינו, the Sefarim say, if we're careful what our eyes see, then וישמח לבנו, then we can be happy. Then you don't go around the whole Rosh Hashanah saying: Money! Trust Hashem. That שמחת החיים is everything. So Rav Don Segal, zol zei gezunt un shtark, said, Where do we daven in Shemoneh Esrei for Shemiras Einayim? And he said, And even though we're so far from Moshiach and we need it so badly, you can get a little bit of a glimpse of the future, a little bit of the peace and the מנוחת הנפש and the שמחת החיים. I have what I need. Hashem is keeping the rest for me. He'll give it to me when I need it. The key is ויראו עינינו. And you don't have to be perfect. Every little Nisayon, every little test of closing your eyes for a second. ישועת השם כהרף עין says the Bobover Rav, the Kedushas Tzion, the ישועה of Hashem can come just by the blink of an eye. When you blink your eye when you're not supposed to see something. And then suddenly it doesn't make a difference how much money we have. The point is how much Simcha is in your heart.