oomis – I’m curious to know what your stories of hashgacha are…any specific ones come to mind?”
I posted them in the past, would not want to bore anyone here by rpeating the entire megillah, but VERY basically, my father O”H was zocheh to amazing H”P in the army, where he was in the Intelligence division and captured a Nazi whose villa was filled with paintings (of his family) that had been painted over klafim of Sifrei Torah. The first one that my father O”H found, was painted over the klaf containing his own bar-mitzvah Parsha, PArshas Shemini.
Parshas Shemini (Toras Hakohanim)has since that time been a recurring theme in my family, which is a family of Kohanim. All the male children in the family who had at least one grandparent on the other side who was a Holocaust survivor, were born either on Parshas Shemini or on one of the two other Parshios that my father found that day (Acharei Mos and Kedoshim), all from three separate Sifrei Torah. In addition, my mother O”H was herself born to one of those Parshios, and was nifteres on Shabbos Parshas Shemini. My daughter reached the age of bas mitzvah bo bayom on Shabbos Shemini a couple of years later.
There are other stories as well, but perhaps another time.