“They Knew About the Match Before We Did”: Jerusalem Mother’s Shocking Story Moves the Rabbanim Committee

We all know this quiet pain up close. The older man who has still not found his match, or the woman who watches her friends build homes while she is still waiting to cross her own private sea. Every broken match breaks the heart, but for generations the Jewish people have believed there is one place that can open all the gates, the grave of the divine Tanna Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel in Amuka. In the offices of the Rabbanim Committee, they are already used to hearing stories of salvation, entire binders filled with thank-you letters from brides and grooms. But the phone call received this morning from Gitti, a grieving mother from Jerusalem, managed to shake even the most veteran operators. Less than a year ago, Gitti faced a difficult trial. Three of her children were still at home waiting for their matches. The eldest son had long since passed the age of 26, after him a successful 24-year-old daughter, and another fine young man, 22. The years went by, the proposals came and went, and the tension in the home grew until it became unbearable. “I reached a point where I could no longer bear to see their pain,” she says in a trembling voice. “Then I saw the Rabbanim Committee ad about the prayer gathering in Amuka, led by Maran HaGaon Rabbi Chaim Feinstein, shlit”a. Usually I’m not someone who looks for segulot, but when three children are waiting at home, a mother’s heart can’t take it anymore.” She called, donated, and gave the three names. “I thought to myself that at most it would be an enhanced act of charity, and I asked the Holy One, blessed be He, to open the gate for us.” What happened next was beyond nature. Less than 30 days after the prayer gathering, a new proposal arrived for the eldest son. This time, unlike before, things moved at lightning speed, and before long the first plate was broken in the home. But the miracle did not stop there. In the winter, exactly two weeks after the wedding of the eldest son, another joyful announcement was heard in the M. family home, the 24-year-old daughter became engaged. The second plate was broken, and the home filled with the light of joy and gratitude. The reason the mother called the Rabbanim Committee offices דווקא this morning is the most moving of all. “Tonight,” she says with uncontrollable excitement, “we hope, with God’s help, to close the third match for the youngest son.” This morning, when she saw the ad again for the hillula in Amuka, she understood the magnitude of divine providence. “Suddenly I understood that the whole chain started there. The first name, the second name, and now the third one is also being finalized בדיוק on the day of the hillula! I felt I had to tell this.”