The Renovating Repairman | Rabbi Aryeh Leiser

Okay, ready? Okay, tie. One second, adjust. When you’re ready. One day, I was walking out of Shul, a friend of mine approached me. He said: I saw that you were on Vayimaen. There's a story I need to tell you. A story which changed my life. He said: I want to show you something. I want to show you the balance of my checking account. I said: Yossel, Yossel, I know you fix air conditionings. I know you have a large Mishpacha. I know what's in your checking account. He says: No, no, I really want to show it to you. He shows me his Chase checking account. There wasn't 100, there wasn't 200, there wasn't 300, there wasn't $400,000. There was $421,000. I said: Yossele, tell me your story. He says: You know, I'm an air conditioning repairman, and a lot of times, with my job, I have to deal with the lady in the house. I have to discuss the job with her. One night, I walked into my Chavrusa and I said, קדושים תהיו This is not the job that I want. He says to me: Yossel, do you know how to do anything besides repair air conditionings? I said: Yes, I do. I know how to renovate houses. So we both decided I'm not Yossel, the air conditioning repairman, anymore. I am Yossel who renovates houses. From then on, every call which came in I outsourced it to competition, to everyone I knew who fixed air conditionings. Two weeks later, maybe four, maybe six, maybe eight, I get a phone call from a friend of mine who just bought a house in Pennsylvania. He says: Yossel, can you renovate it? I renovated one, I renovated two, I renovated three, I renovated four. Then my friend tells me: Yossele, I want to teach you how to buy houses in Pennsylvania. Yossel then tells me, You know, I own 15 houses in Pennsylvania, and this is the rent money. He says to me, I felt such a connection to the Aibishter. Hashem never leaves someone alone, who's Kadosh v’Tahor. I felt the Kesher. I felt the Shaychus.