My name is Hila S. of Netivot, and I want to share my story with you and your donors…
For eighteen years, I led a picture-perfect life. I was pretty, popular and intelligent, at the top of my class socially and academically. No one had a doubt that I’d be one of the first in my class to get engaged and be a radiant young bride.
Chazal teach that shidduchim are as difficult as Krias Yam Suf, and I learned this the hard way. I turned twenty-two, twenty-four and twenty-eight… I davened my heart out, traveled to kivrei tzaddikim in Eretz Yisrael and Europe, and visited Gedolim and Rebbes to receive their brachos. I tried every segulah in the book, but nothing worked. At 30 years old, I was still single. My heart had been broken time and again, and I was beginning to doubt that I would ever find my zivug…
One day, I was reading an article about Rabbi Yeshaya’le of Kerestir zy”a and was deeply inspired by the chessed and miracles that he performed during his life. I felt a powerful urge to do something l’iluy nishmaso, and on the spot, decided to donate a generous sum of money to Yeshua V’Chessed as a zechus for a shidduch.
Exactly one week (!) later, I received a call from a shadchan that I was acquainted with, and this time, her suggestion sounded like everything I’d been waiting and davening for. The inquiries went quickly. We met, and less than two weeks after I’d donated to Yeshua V’Chessed, my tefillos were answered, and I was a radiant bride—all in the zechus of my donation to Yeshua V’Chessed!
