Too much has happened which I regret not having kept track of and in getting more involved in blogging both publicly and privately I wanted to re-start my journaling of hashgacha protis in my life.

There have been many many many more instances of hashgacha protis than what I will list below over the past few years… especially with regard to our marriage, the birth of our daughter Adina Rachel Levin… my immediate family mkareved… but here are a few to start that I can remember… hopefully I can keep this up!

The Hunt For a Job

 When Kayla Miriam and I got married we were unemployed for over 3 months… all of a sudden around Rosh Hashana time… after she had completed tehillim … I was approached walking home from shul and asked if I could come in for an interview! I got the job that week…

The next year… same time… I decided that sales wasn’t up my alley for the long term so I set a date to leave my job and look full time for a marketing position. I interviewed for over a month and just as the date, Sept 1, approached… Ari Sirner referred me to Isaac Chinitz who referred me to Razorfish… they brought me in after a phone interview and hired me that week… all within a few days… and my starting date: Sept 1st.

Davening for Parnasa

I have davened for parnasa since leaving Yeshiva… to pay off our debt, be able to give more ma’aser, to give Kayla more time to be with the baby and not have to work. I recently started to read Garden of Emuna (A book I cannot recommend enough for frum yiddin - link below), had an incredibly inspiring Pesach with the Schwarzmers and am counting the Omer with assistence from My wife’s Rabbi’s sefer Sefiros by Rabbi Haber and Rabbi Sedley. My second day back at work I was pleasantly surprised with an adjustment of my position to allow me to make a little bit more money!

Tzedaka

I’ve always been told that whenever someone approaches me for charity, I have to give something even if it is very little (I assume this is only if I have something to give… but then again it’s probably my responsibility to keep some change or small bills on me all the time for this mitzvah!). Recently I resolved to follow this to the best that I could and started to give… a lot of this is thanks to Garden of Emuna and the idea that money and people collecting all come from Hashem. This morning Hashem gave me a little surprise.

Even though I know I’m going to give… I still get nervous and rummage through my wallet when I see people collecting at Shul. Today I only had one 1 dollar bill and saw one collector. I was nervous because I didn’t know if there would be more people coming in later but I offered my dollar to this person anyway. Without me motioning or anything he took out three quarters and gave me them as change! Two more collectors came and I gave each a quarter leaving me with a quarter to give during the part of davening where it is customary to set aside tzedaka! It really brightened up my entire davening and I couldn’t refrain from giggling to myself a few times.

Whoever this collector is… Thank you!…you should be blessed with enough parnasa that you become someone that people come to for tzedaka! And may Hashem give you extra points for brightening up my davening and emuna!

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