Hakaras Hatov:
The incredible chesed that Chaveirim do:
a few years ago, driving from lakewood to Brooklyn i had a flat in Staten Island;
Car was a very old lexus, (tire nuts use a ‘key’ ; they were rusty;
a police car stopped and tried to help me , and was not able to remove the tire; but he did tell me some amazing stories about how chaveirim help him (while on duty) ; He knew he could call on them for help;
in short, the car eventually was towed to a Sears store in S.I. (on a Sunday) ; i figured they are pros. in short they worked on it for a couple of hours
and they were NOT able to remove the tire ; so they towed the car to their parking lot, and wished me good luck;
now it’s Sunday past 5pm , so i called chaverirm in Brooklyn; they advised they were very busy, but eventually they showed up around 8pm
they worked on it for 2 hours, and nothing was doing;
They were about to give up, and they decided to give it a last try; And then the tire finally came out, and they installed the replacement tire;
and went on their way ; ofc i sent a nice donation to chav. in brklyn , but in my mind this was priceless, so my question to besalel: if yoiu had a bad experience with ch. How many incredible situations when they provide amazing , selfless help , like my story can we count? So, would you like to encourage their service, or ask them for some money becasue of one bad experience? would you like to be able to call on them when in real need ?
What about hakaras Hatov?
