Crazy Story - R. Meir Simcha Sperling - TorahAnytime.com

This is a true story. I have a whole bunch of witnesses to this story. And it might seem very simple to you. Might be like, "Okay, very nice." But this story blew me away. This story literally blew me away. I saw it live. I was there. It happened to me. And I I it's like the more I speak about it, I shared it with a few people, a few groups of people already. And it's the more I think about it, the crazier the story is. Just open your eyes and see that Hashem is in your life. So, exactly one week ago, Tuesday night, I took I went my my wife and I went to a certain park, marine park, went to marine park to walk around to walk around, spend some time smooy anyways, we were there and uh as we were there, one of my sisters was there also. I was like, well, lo and behold, like, what are you doing here? What are you doing here? No, what are you doing here? Okay, so it's very cute. She was there and and we were talking and um at one point we were on one on one side of the park. She was actually there with some of her children, some of my nephews. And we and we so we were on one side and she wanted to walk around. So she asked us if we can stay with uh her her son, my nephew, while she walks around one time, no problem. Okay. So she goes and she's walking around maybe two times, whatever it was, and we were on the other side of the park. Okay. She comes back a few minutes later, maybe 10, 15 minutes later, and we all start heading to the car. As we're going to the car, she notices that her key is missing. Her key is I'm saying, anyone who doesn't know what a key is, it looks like this. This is what it looks like. So, a key, I don't know how big this is, not not that big. Okay. So, I guess it was like hanging on a chain or something. Like she was holding like this while she was walking around and this metal piece right here fell off and she didn't notice. Okay. So, how do you get home? So, it's a good thing they had a boat. I'm joking. So, anyway, so we're like, okay, what are we going to do? It's impossible. It was almost at times. So, it's getting dark. The park is a mile long, right? It's a a huge circle for those who know what Marine Park is. And how in the world are we finding a key that's this big in the park when it's getting dark? Where do you drop it? You were just walking around for 15 minutes. Where? I'm saying it's it's a mile. There's grass everywhere. There's cement. There's two tracks. There's people on bikes. There's dogs. There's this. There's that. How in the world are you finding this key? You're not. But let's do. So, let's try to retrace your steps. So, where did you go? I don't know. No. So, we try we figured it out. We It was us two them two. It was a few people. So, like let's we'll all walk on the path. You have to look in the grass cuz it could be that if it did drop somewhere, somebody kicked it, a bike hit it, it ricocheted off, this that, whatever. You go in this one, you go in that one. We're all walking different parts. And we're looking down and we're saying like it's it's probably not likely that we're going to find this. I mean, a small little tiny black key when it's getting dark in a a mile park. Probably not. Okay. So, we're walking. We must have spent I would say maybe 15 minutes walking. No, not 15, maybe a little bit less. looking around and deep down I guess we thought we're for sure going to find it. We're for sure not going to find it. I'm not exactly sure what it was. It was one of those two thoughts 50/50. You know what I'm saying? And um and we're like, "Hashem, please help us. Like, we got to get home." Like maybe it was stolen. Maybe somebody found it and is trying to find the car. Now it's going to get stolen. Anyways, about halfway through. So, I remembered that I had my wallet on me and in my wallet I keep the amarb, right? Remember that? We had a story with this a long time ago with my wallet. So I was like one second. I told my sister I said maybe maybe just say it three times. You're putting it in Hashem's I'm saying everything's in Hashem's control but over here you're saying that everything is until opens up your eyes. Everything is lost. We have no idea what this key is. It could be long gone. We're probably not going to find it. But there's a to say this and whatever the point is is definitely going to enhance your when you're when you're literally saying everything is blind. Meaning everything is considered hidden and it's blind and you're blind. You can't see it until himself opens up your eye. And when he opens up your eye, then you're going to be able to find it. Say it. Say it three times. You never know. And you give somebody to Bal right. And and who knows, maybe we'll find it somewhere in this mile park. Anyways, she said it three times and we're like, "Okay." She gives it to me. I take my wallet. I put it in my pocket or in my backpack, whatever it was. And we start walking. Okay? You could ask all the people who were with me if you don't believe this. 10 seconds later, not 20, not 3 minutes, not a half hour, not 2 days, 10 seconds. Literally, I walked five steps. And it happens to be I was walking in the grass. I was like walking in the grass. Even though she was walking on the path, maybe got kicked. 10 seconds later, there is the key right in front of me. I stopped. I'm like, I got it. Here it is. how you doing? We got it 10 seconds later. And I said, "One second." So, right away, I wanted to like find out like what are the statistics that that could happen. So, I checked into it and it turns out it's very, very, very complex. It's like one in a who knows what type of chance to find it. You're not going to find it with this type of darkness and this and that to find it 10 seconds after you say it in the grass. She wasn't in the grass. She was walking on the on the cement. This is a little bit into the grass. Like, nothing made sense. Nothing made sense. What only what made sense was that who decided that you did this level of now and there's a sigula. So now I'm going to put the key right in front of you and now your eyes are going to open. You're going to see 10 seconds later there was the key. And I was thinking to myself, if this doesn't tell me that is watching rabbi say it's a big park. It's a mile. It could have been anywhere and it could have fell 20 minutes before then and it was right where we stopped to say this right there. That's not a coincidence. Doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. And I was thinking like if this is Hashem's way of telling us that he's with us. Yeah. You're not going to understand everything. But I just wanted to give you a little kiss to show you that I'm with you. I'm watching you. You just put your trust in me. I'm your father. I know a million a billion why everything in life is what the way it is and we're all going through things. And I told my sister then I told my wife also. I'm like, it's an amazing thing. Like, if you needed in your life, if you're going through stuff, which we all are. You needed to to believe Hashem is there. That's it. We got it. We have everything we need. 10 seconds after we said it, we found it right there. A small little tiny black key. If that does not tell you that Hashem is watching your every move and he's guiding you, then what does? And that's what I took from the story. Open your eyes because you could have said coincidence. Okay, whatever. Fine. In that park, that piece of grass was sticking up and that's why you were able to find. No, no, that's not why. It's because we said Hashem will help us. And let's let's say this we're talking about we're trying to bring out our holy, right? We're we're trying to do the right thing here. And if the was that we lost the key and the and the car gets stolen, whatever it is, okay, then that's we're not going to understand that either. Meaning, we're not going to send anything. has billions of it's a whole world. But this was a message that he was there and and he wasn't just there by that. He's there by everything. He's here right now and he's helping me talk and he's helping you listen is everywhere and who loves us and who is guiding us and he watches us and he's setting everything up for us. We just have to do the best that we can. If the best that I can is to retrace my steps and to do myas and maybe I'll find it. If my ashalah says is to say this, okay, then that's what I'm going to do. And then everything is up to Hashem. And then Hashem 10 seconds later says, "Okay, here you go. Here's your gift. You got your car back." And just remember that I'm here. I'm not always going to happen like this. It's not always going to be that a second later everything's going to I'm going to win the lottery. There's still a lot of bills and we still have to do a lot of but I'm here. Don't forget. And there's a plan. So it was just a a major major story for me and it gave me so much. And I was there. I was watching it. And I was selected.