Yehudit is a religious woman who lives in Sharon, near Boston, Massachusetts. After her father passed away, she decided to donate her father’s tefillin to a Jew in the Land of Israel. When the war in Gaza broke out, she resolved that the tefillin should go to an Israeli soldier, so she sent them to a scribe in Israel for checking and repairing, at her own expense. He then asked me if I knew of a soldier without tefillin who wanted to wear this beautiful pair every day. It just “happened” that at the same time, a soldier from a non-observant family named Yonatan turned to me.

From a small town near Zikhron Yaakov, south of Haifa, Yonatan told me that he was beginning to come closer to Torah Judaism and that he would very much like to have tefillin. Seeing this clear Divine Providence, I sent Yehudit’s late father’s tefillin to Yonatan by special delivery. Very moved and excited to receive them, Yonatan sent me a beautiful photo of himself adorned with the tefillin. I immediately sent it to Yehudit, and thanked her for her contribution – and she, too, was very excited at the prospect that her father’s tefillin would again be used for the special mitzvah every day.