Turn On the Light

Let me tell you, my sister, a short story that happened to us. My husband, may Hashem protect him, built a study hall, and downstairs, below the study hall, he built a mikveh. But he only started building the mikveh, and didn't continue, because he didn't have money. So he locked it up tight so, God forbid, children wouldn't enter, and thus many years passed, and the mikveh wasn't ready... why? No money!

One day I'm sitting with my husband, and I ask him: Why isn't the mikveh in operation? Why? For the men to immerse, but also because I need to immerse dishes... Why do I need to send the kids far away?... He told me - I have no money, it's not simple, you need money for it. I told him: "Listen, my dear husband. Go to the mikveh, turn on the light there". He says to me: "What light? There's no electricity there!...". I told him: "Go turn on the light in your mind. Go inside and start imagining. Tell yourself: here will be tiles, here will be this and here that, etc.".

He listened to me, went to the mikveh, took the key, opened the door, went inside, took a walk around the mikveh and started imagining, tiles here, tiles there... this will be here and that there. In short – he turned on the light in his mind.

That very day a good friend of my husband, who is a very wealthy man, came to him. They sat together, and the friend asked: Tell me, what about your mikveh? My husband tells him: it needs money... And he told him: let's go there. They arrived, he saw the mikveh – and *Baruch Hashem*, he took the project upon himself.

My husband was so moved. "What luck that I listened to you, my wife! I turned on the light there, and the light turned on!".

Do you understand? Everything you want – you need to turn on the light.

I want to share with you an email I received. A woman writes to me like this: "Good morning to dear Rabbanit Hagit Shira. I must share with you, last Friday I heard your lesson, 'Happy Thursday'. I'll note that I am a religious woman, with a head covering, but the matter of covering everything is a bit hard for me, so I leave a bit, like a low cover, it flatters me a lot. I heard from you the importance of covering all the hair, and I said to myself – wow, how hard it is. I'm with a cover but I'm just leaving a bit, what's in it? You emphasized the matter of the livelihood and blessing it brings, and I told myself: On Sunday I'll go to work with full coverage without the part in the middle. It was hard for me, but that's how I went and it's crazy what happened...".

What happened to her? – Next week *b'ezrat Hashem*.