A remarkable moment of hashgacha pratis occurred last night at the Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen hosted by Bais Shmuel-Chabad in the lower level of the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights.
Leading the farbrengen was Rabbi Shais Taub, who spoke about the Alter Rebbe’s arrest and imprisonment and the deeper meaning of Yud Tes Kislev as the “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus.” After recounting the historic events, Rabbi Taub said he wanted to share a modern-day Yud Tes Kislev story.
He then told the story recently reported on COLlive.com, of how an 8-year-old student at Oholei Torah, inspired by a card promoting the Chayenu subscription drive, ended up helping a 50-year-old man put on Tefillin for the first time in his life.
As soon as Rabbi Taub finished the story, one of the attendees stood up and announced that he was the boy’s uncle and the one who had actually wrapped the Tefillin on the man in the story. Rabbi Taub immediately invited him to retell the story from his own perspective, which he did, and then he shared a photo of the man putting on Tefillin, bringing the entire room to life in a moment of unmistakable hashgacha pratis, the kind that only seems to happen at a Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen.
Watch this special moment:
Watch the full farbrengen:
