On this occasion, the Lererke Maya Ajzen shares the story “Seven good years or seven happy years” written in Yiddish by Y.L. Peretz.
A poor shipper is on a Thursday waiting for customers in the market to earn something to buy what is necessary for Shabes. A “daytchl”, a modernized Jew, approaches him and tells him that he is predestined for 7 years of wealth and that he can choose when he wants them … at that moment or the last 7 years of his life. … he asks his wife and she tells him immediately … and there is no argument from the daytchl, (which is actually Eliyohu Hanovi), to make him give up ….
After 7 years of bonanza returns the daytchl to warn him that he will be poor again … and finds him in the same place in the market, just as poor and the shipper tells him that for him there has been no change in all those years , go and talk to his wife who was the one who took care of managing the money. The daytchl speaks with her and she tells him that she only took the money for Toire’s studies of the children and if God has anyone who uses the money that gives it better …..
After a moment the Almighty decides to keep the money forever with them …
