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I was broke, but I pledged $36,000

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Berel Solomon

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I left my family business and I went to go start my own company from absolutely scratch right before Rosh Hashanah the rabbi came to my new office to pledge me as he does every year and when he walked into the room his face turned white he was used to seeing me in a big fancy office with a big mahogany desk with a big Corner View and that year he walked in and I was alone in a dingy office sitting on a ten dollar Walmart chair and those white folding tables that year I was expecting the rabbi to go easy on me he sits down at the table and he says to me this year I'm not going to ask you for 18 000. but this year I will ask you double to at least six thousand I went into a trance the rabbi froze in front of me it was just me myself and God [Music] and at first I was angry I was saying to myself how could he do this to me he knows that I'm starting fresh he knows how hard it is how could he ask such a big ask but then I thought to myself if this is all true then God is not going to hurt me for giving charity and you're talking about need of a slave nor that Jesus glass needless yet only Jesus came out of the trance one single tear ran down my cheek and I said one word okay foreign I said it's up to God it's not my problem I'm gonna do my best and I'm gonna commit but at the end of the day it's up to him to make sure it happens [Music] soon definitely times that you're in business I absolutely exploded it was an incredible Year from Zero to Hero overnight the type of growth that I had was not normal and by the end of that year I was able to fill every single dollar of that 36 000 pledge