Beggar's Blessing: Three cousins got engaged within 12 days

Miracles are happening in our days too: The following story about three cousins who got engaged within a month became the talk of the day among Tzanz hasidim across the country. It begins on the night of Lag B'Omer at the kindling of the Rebbe in Netanya and ended last Thursday.

The cousins (last name withheld) sat together in the large hall of Kiryat Tzanz of Netanya and watched the kindling of the Rebbe of Tzanz. Towards the end one of them offered her cousins to go out to the bus that is leaving for Meron.

At the end of the hadloka, the three family members were on the bus, waiting in traffic jams and finally arrived at dawn at Mount Meron. At the drop off, after marching a few meters, they noticed an elderly woman collecting charity.

One of the three took a shekel from her pocket and dropped it into the box the woman was holding.

"Tizki lemitzvos, may you be engaged until Rosh Chodesh Sivan," the woman blessed her, and she replied, "Amen." The two other family members were moved by the brocha, and also dropped a modest contribution into the woman's box, and received a similar blessing.

The girls went home and when they related their trip experiences, they mentioned this story to the family too.

A week after Lag B'Omer the story began to take shape when one of them got engaged to a bochur from the Tzanz yeshiva. Just a week later another one also got engaged with a boy from the yeshiva. The story slowly circulated among the hassidim who awaited to see what will become of the third cousin.

Last Thursday, on the eve of Rosh Chodesh Sivan, a Tzanzer shadchan urged the father of a boy to hold a meeting that same day and end it with a "lechayim". Ever wondered what happened? Indeed at one-thirty at night, the night of Rosh Chodesh, the two sides closed and drank a lechayim.

In this way, the shekel of charity of the three cousins, became one of the most famous stories in the Hasidus.

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!