Small Miracles

"You're not in your office?" he asked in puzzlement.

"No, I'm on an emergency call a few blocks from my home," the doctor answered.

"But I just dialed your regular number," the incredulous rabbi insisted.

Then the doctor looked down at the phone from which he was speaking. The numbers were precisely the same as his office phone except for one, in which the number was one digit off! By inadvertently dialing one of the numbers incorrectly, the rabbi had actually dialed the "right" number!

Later, after having been taken to the hospital, the rabbi was told that his life had been saved only because he had reached the doctor in time.

Wrong number. Right party.

--Rabbi Paysach Krohn

Text from:Halberstam, Yitta and Leventhal, Judith. Small Miracles for the Jewish Heart: Extraordinary Coincidences from Yesterday and Today. Avon: Adams Media Corporations, 2002. 17-18. Print.

This is an excerpt from one of the first stories read during a recent Penn State Hillel event. A small group of students got together one evening to read some of these Small Miracles and to discuss the meaning of fate, destiny, karma, miracles and coincidences.

Adam, the facilitator of this event said, "this event was awesome, thought provoking, awe inspiring, deep and meaningful. I got a lot out of it." Mike, another participant, thought, "I thought this was a great way to delve into deeper meaning than a typical college night would usually entail." We look forward to holding similar events in the future to continue our discussion based programming that this year has been full of.