Rabbi Akiva Story - R. Uri Lati - TorahAnytime.com

Akiba was once collecting yes. He goes to a certain town and that certain town did not host any rabbis and they knew when a rabbi knocks on the door we're not opening up for any rabbis and Akiba had with him a candle to have some light in the dark. He had with him a hamore, his donkey in order to ride on and his teneul and his chicken, his rooster to wake him up in the morning. And he knocks on all the doors and nobody lets him in. And the says, "Where am I going to go right now? So I'll sleep in the forest." He sleeps in the forest. He kindles his light, his candle to have some light. And in the middle of the night, ladies and gentlemen, a great wind comes and extinguishes his candle. And he says, "Everything from Hashem is great. I don't complain." And a lion comes and he eats his donkey. And says, "Everything that Hashem does is good." And something else happens to his chicken. And says, "I'm not complaining. If this is what God wants, this is what God wants." And he's left with nothing. He's bare right now. He's left with nothing. The next morning he's about to go home and he hears there's a ruckus, the screaming from the neighborhood from that very same town. They wouldn't let him in. And he goes and he asks them what's going on. They say you don't understand what happened last night. Robbers came, thieves came. You don't ask what happened. They ransacked. They stole our money. They killed. Says, "Unbelievable. Look how Hashem is so benevolent. Look how Hashem is so kind. If my candle was still on, they would have sold my candle. They would have came and killed me. If they would have heard my donkey bright, they would have heard my donkey and came and killed me. And if they would have heard my chicken, my rooster, they would have came and killed me. Now I know that everything from Hashem is