So, I had the following marked to translate already from Shabbat.

It’s part of that same shiur I already stuck some bits up from, earlier in the week.

The next section is about Elon Musk, and the Banker Halperin, from Berdichev.

Read it, then meet me at the bottom for a small story of hashgacha pratit.

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Excerpt of a shiur from 17th Av, 5786, Parshat Ekev (July 31, 2026)

Now, Elon Musk went down to 700 billion.

This really broke me, he had over a trillion, and he went down to $700 billion. His shares collapsed, I don’t know what happened, where to invest in now.

This is $300 billion, that this could have been distributed to the yeshiva. If he would have brought [$100K], $100 to Shuvu Banim, so then this disaster wouldn’t have happened to him.

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Rabbi Natan said, there was one person, Halperin, if he’d only given a single kopek (penny) a single prutah – then he wouldn’t have gone bankrupt.

Back then, they knocked on his door, they said, now, now, he’s standing on the mirpeset (balcony). He was scared that the mirpeset would get broken, it’s written in Sichot, you need to  know the stories.

Now it’s 10pm, learn the stories until 11pm.

So then, he said, if he would only given us even just a single kopek, so then it will be OK.

This was Rabbi Natan, and Rabbi Naftali [who went to ask for tzedakah from the Berdichev Banker Halperin].

And if no, so then tomorrow, he is going to go bankrupt.

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So, they knocked on his door, they were collecting hachnasat kallah – to help pay for a bride’s wedding.

Who are you?

-We are Breslovers.

Breslov?! Breslov?! Yallah! Get away from here! Fly from here!! Get away!!

They said: Yallah, the unfortunate man. He lost out.

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Following day, he went bankrupt.

He was the banker for the whole of Berdichev, thousands of people lost their money.

If he had only given just one coin…

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If Musk would only have given just one $100 bill, then he also would [have been saved from losing so much money]…

[Turning to someone next to him, the Rav continues”]

Nachman, if he would only have brought me $100, he wouldn’t have gone bankrupt. Exactly after we left him, he went bankrupt, so he lost all of his assets.

Because he built a town, a majestic town – but they didn’t build the railway [to there], so he went bankrupt.

Nobody went to live there.

All of this, we need to know.

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Translated from Rasisei Tal, #81.

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So, just as I am getting around to translating this, I got a phone call from my friend at the Rav’s Kollel Chatzot, in the Old City.

The Rosh Kollel, R Meir Sa’adeh, is trying to marry off another child, and is still paying off the debts from marrying off previous children, so the situation is not at all easy.

They literally don’t have anything to put into this wedding, that typically is going to cost at least 50,000 nis, because that’s just how things are today, even in frum Israel.

She asked me if I could put something up, to see if any of the readers want to contribute.

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First things first – you can do that here:

https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/online/?mosad=7014431

Put in any amount you want.

Me?

Even though we have been struggling with the cast recently, I’m also donating to this, because even just giving a little bit to the right places is enough to ‘turn all the finances around’.

I’m not Elon Musk, nor Banker Halperin of Berdichev, but if it’s good enough for them, it’s also good enough for me.

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In the meantime, there is already more light on the horizon, and we all know, that giving tzedakah is a tried-and-tested way of opening up things that seem to have otherwise closed down.

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The timing of all this is just uncanny.

Re: Musk, here’s what the AI bot gave me:

Bottom line:
Current estimate: ~$871 billion.
Peak: ~$1.4–$1.45 trillion (in June 2026)
Maximum recent decline: >$600 billion from the peak, with a >$300B drop happening relatively quickly after the SpaceX IPO.

How the Rav knows all this…

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Here’s that link again, for Breslov hachnassat kallah for the Rosh Yeshiva of the Kollel Chatzot:

https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/online/?mosad=7014431

And may we just hear good news.

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PS: Yes, you can get a receipt from them that is tax deductible in Israel.

No, I am not working for them in any capacity, and I don’t get a pruta for any of this stuff.