I clicked “Place Order” and exhaled slowly. Ordering materials for a new eiruv can get pricey

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ovid Hamelech (Tehillim 121:1) said it best, “Esa einai… I lift my eyes to the mountains, from where will my salvation come? My help is from Hashem….”

Sometimes, help is hard to come by. But Hashem has some very mysterious ways of providing assistance.

I clicked “Place Order” and exhaled slowly. Ordering materials for a new eiruv can get pricey, and this order for 750 U-Guards was no exception. I had just spent upward of $15,000 on these materials, which were due to be delivered to the Zucker home in Bayville, Florida, on the following Monday.

Speaking of delivery, there was more work to do. I clicked back onto my computer and reserved a forklift for that same Monday morning. There was absolutely no way anyone could unload 8 pallets of U-Guards, weighing in at 1,000 lbs each, without using a forklift to remove them from the delivery truck. The plan was for Rabbi Zucker to drive the forklift and deposit the U-guards in his backyard, where they would sit until I arrived on Tuesday and began using them. The plan was a good one, until things began to unravel.