I was part of a team that would bake Challah and take Challah from the dough for the sake of a single girl to be matched up.
So, while I was on the team, each week or so I'd get the name of a single girl and be asked if I was baking enough that week that I was taking Challah with a Bracha. The way it worked is that the organizers wanted a minimum of forty bakers each week.
One week I baked up bread with about five pounds of flour and I took Challah with a Bracha, and said out loud that I was doing this for the girl whose name I mentioned.
I covered the bread for protection as was my custom with wax paper after I removed the bread from the oven. Wax paper is opaque, but as the bread cooled the moisture escaping from the bread made white blotches on the wax paper and those spots were even more opaque.
As I removed the wax paper later to take two breads for Lechem Mishneh that Shabbos night I happened to glance at the wax paper.
The girl's name was written in white "ink" on the paper. The blotches of moisture were in the shape of letters in a straight line.
I showed the wax to a number of people who were able to read the girl's name without prompting.
I showed it to a student of mine about ten years old at that time. "I've never seen a miracle before!" he exclaimed. That's when realized this Segula had led to a Nes.
I didn't preserve the wax paper properly. Eventually humidity erased the letters. They were about an inch high, I think, and in a script reminiscent of that used by a Stam Sofer.
The girl had a four or five letter name (it contains a Vuv and I don't recall now if the Vuv was included.) Following her name was the word Bas, daughter-of.
Who dreamed up this one about the stone?
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It's sad that people feel it necessary to mix religion with mumbo jumbo.
ReplyDeleteNot to be picky, but should the Talmid Chachah be INSCRIBING the special tefillah, not just describing it?
ReplyDeleteWhere is Rav Yaakov Emden when you need him?
ReplyDeleteTrue story.
ReplyDeleteI was part of a team that would bake Challah and take Challah from the dough for the sake of a single girl to be matched up.
So, while I was on the team, each week or so I'd get the name of a single girl and be asked if I was baking enough that week that I was taking Challah with a Bracha. The way it worked is that the organizers wanted a minimum of forty bakers each week.
One week I baked up bread with about five pounds of flour and I took Challah with a Bracha, and said out loud that I was doing this for the girl whose name I mentioned.
I covered the bread for protection as was my custom with wax paper after I removed the bread from the oven. Wax paper is opaque, but as the bread cooled the moisture escaping from the bread made white blotches on the wax paper and those spots were even more opaque.
As I removed the wax paper later to take two breads for Lechem Mishneh that Shabbos night I happened to glance at the wax paper.
The girl's name was written in white "ink" on the paper. The blotches of moisture were in the shape of letters in a straight line.
I showed the wax to a number of people who were able to read the girl's name without prompting.
I showed it to a student of mine about ten years old at that time. "I've never seen a miracle before!" he exclaimed. That's when realized this Segula had led to a Nes.
I didn't preserve the wax paper properly. Eventually humidity erased the letters. They were about an inch high, I think, and in a script reminiscent of that used by a Stam Sofer.
The girl had a four or five letter name (it contains a Vuv and I don't recall now if the Vuv was included.) Following her name was the word Bas, daughter-of.
Did she find a shidduch?
ReplyDeleteNot right away. I checked online a few years later because I had found out her last name. She had married.
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