{"id":98935,"date":"2022-11-20T04:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98935"},"modified":"2022-11-20T04:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:36:57","slug":"an-exact-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/an-exact-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exact Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Exact Exchange<\/strong><\/p>\n

I noticed a certain Rabbi out of the corner of my eye, entering and exiting our office a number of times, shame and humiliation written on his face. Finally, seeing no other choice, he gathered the courage to approach me. He asked that I raise funds for his yeshiva, which had been devastated by fire and was in desperate need of extensive funds in order be rehabilitated. I was filled with pain at his story, but sadly told him that I could not help him. I, too, had yeshivot to uphold and could not offer him financial aid at the time.<\/p>\n

But the man would not give up. He begged me, over and over, to help his yeshiva. All of Klal Yisrael are mutually responsible, he averred. Therefore, it was my obligation to help his yeshiva just as much as my own. Seeing his determination to receive some sort of donation, I finally capitulated. I offered him a certain amount of money, but stipulated that it would be paid in twelve installments. At the end of each month, his yeshiva would receive a part of the money. The rabbi was pleased with my offer. He thanked me profusely and went on his way.<\/p>\n

Approximately two hours later, I went home. At a very late hour, the phone rang in my house. It was a Jew from Canada, who did not realize the difference in the time: in his country, it was still daytime, so he did not hesitate to phone me. I was acquainted with this man, but had never received a phone call directly from him. But this evening (or day) he called to relate an amazing story.<\/p>\n

That morning, he checked his stocks. He saw that they had decreased and he was destined to lose a lot of money. He and his friends therefore resolved that if his stocks become stable again, they would donate one percent of their value to the Pinto family.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the natural order, his stocks took a turn for the better. They rose higher and higher until they were completely stable. He hurried to fulfill his promise and phoned to tell me about the sizeable sum on its way to me. When I asked what sum of money we were dealing with, he quoted the exact amount that I had pledged toward the rabbi\u2019s yeshiva.<\/p>\n

I clearly saw Hashem\u2019s hand at work. Hashem saw how much I wanted to help the man and therefore sent me the exact amount needed so that I could transfer the funds immediately<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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An Exact Exchange I noticed a certain Rabbi out of the corner of my eye, entering and exiting our office a number of times, shame and humiliation written on his face. Finally, seeing no other choice, he gathered the courage to approach me. He asked that I raise funds for his yeshiva, which had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":28111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}