Today we will share two beautiful Hashgacha Pratit stories about bringing back someone who was about to be lost. In the first story, a boy writes a Thank You letter to his parents on the day of his wedding, as is customary for many people. “ If you remember, ” he wrote, “ there was a time when I was in high school, when I wasn't learning very well, and I was falling out. Dad came and gave me a speech, and in a week or so, I turned around. You thought that's what caused me to turn around. But let me tell you the real story: I was really dropping low. I was hanging around with not the best of friends. We had actually bought tickets to go on a trip, and we were just going to have some fun. So what caused me to change my mind? Back when I was in sixth grade or seventh grade, we were making a siyum on a perek in Gemara called Hamafkid, and all the children were supposed to bring something for the siyum.” He reminded his parents how on that day, his mother was making a cake for a Sheva Berachot, and since she was baking anyway, she decided to make something nice for the siyum. So she made two cakes. One beautiful, seven layer cake, which was intended for the Sheva Berachot, and a more simple cake, which was for the siyum. But when her son opened the fridge that morning and saw the beautiful cake, he couldn’t believe what his mother had made for his siyum, and he took it to school. When his mother realized what happened, she considered going to the school to switch it. But when she thought about how excited her son was, she decided to leave it. Her son came home that day and said, “ Wow! All the other kids bought licorice and minor things, and I bought this unbelievable cake!” And he was so proud of himself. He wrote that the morning that he was about to go on this trip, he went into a bakery and he saw a seven layer cake in the window. And it hit him, how strongly his mother felt about his learning and how special it was. He just couldn't bring himself to do it, so he told his friend he was not going on the trip with him. And everything turned around. What an unbelievable story! Look how Hashem orchestrated that, through a mistake, the seven layer cake ended up going to the siyum, and then the boy saw a cake like that on the day of his trip and turned around. Of course, he needed a zechut for something that like that to happen, but I'm sure the parents prayed hard. In story number two, there was a girl from Crackow who was Holocaust survivor. When she realized that her whole family was lost, she went off the Derech and moved to Paris. There, she met a nice man who went through the same story. He was devastated by the Holocaust, and gave up everything. They got married and lived their life in Paris, but after a few years, she decided she wanted to go back to her hometown of Crackow to see what it looked like. So they went. When she got to the marketplace, she was walking around and suddenly she looked stunned. Her husband asked what was going on. She said, “ Don't you see, there's a Shas over there, and it's holding up the table? How can we let that Shas be like that?” So the lady told the man behind the table that she wanted to buy that Shas. He said the Shas was not for sale, because he sold little toys, not books. She persisted and said she wanted the books. He told her if she wanted, she could buy the entire table. So she bought the entire table, as her husband stared at her asking, “ What are you doing? !” She answered, “ That Shas is my father's Shas. Every day, when my father came home from work, he would sit down for 15, 20 minutes and learn with a tremendous delight. How can I see it sitting there on the floor? I have to buy it.” So she took the Shas, cleaned it off, and they brought it back to Paris. She started thinking and thinking. And then she told her husband, “ You know, my life is empty now. I want to go back to the original, religious life that I lived before the war. I want to turn around. I know when we got married, we didn't have this plan. So it's up to you. You can decide to go with me or not ” In the end, he joined her and they moved to Eretz Yisrael, where they built a beautiful family. Another beautiful Hashgacha story, showing how Hashem can take an item like a seven layer cake or Shas, and use it to bring somebody back, when they're about to be lost forever. What unbelievable Hashgacha! And again, obviously these people had to have the zechut make these things happen. Have a wonderful day.