Beatachin in Action: The Missing Nickers
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There was a woman named Mrs. Wernick, Oleh Hashalom, in charge of the resource room at Beys Akhul. It was production night—the big event. For those who know, production night is chaotic, intense, and nerve-wracking, maybe even more stressful than the Nile itself!
A young girl, a little heavier than the others, had a costume that required specially made nickers. Ten minutes before the production, she realized she couldn’t find them anywhere. Panic set in.
She told my sister-in-law, who was a teacher at Beys Akhul, “I can’t find my nickers!”
My sister-in-law asked, “So what are you going to do?”
The girl calmly said, “Mrs. Wernick taught me that when you’re stuck, you write a letter to Hashem. So that’s what I’m going to do.”
With seven minutes to go, she grabbed a pen and paper and wrote:
“Dear Hashem, please help me find my nickers.”
Then she sat down and waited.
My sister-in-law was thinking, “She’s lost her marbles. We have five minutes before production!”
But sure enough, 30 seconds later, another girl came over holding the missing nickers:
“Are these yours?”
The young girl smiled and took them.
Pause and think: Who really was “crazy” here? The girl who wrote a calm letter to Hashem with complete faith in Divine Providence, or the rest of us running around like maniacs, doing everything we could but panicking and forgetting that nothing is truly in our control?
This is the essence of beatachin—trust. True trust doesn’t mean doing nothing; it means knowing that Hashem is orchestrating everything, and sometimes the best action is faith and patience.
The next time life throws a “production night” at you, ask yourself: are you the one losing your mind, or are you the one who truly trusts?
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