The Blogs: Story: The boy sits down and cries at the Kotel. G-d is about to send help

This is an incredible story Rabbi Aharon HaLevy tells from when he was a child.

There is a boy named Yoni.
From a young age, everyone believes Yoni would not turn out to be anything special.
He is not known to be the most talented child.
His emotional intelligence and his ability to relate to friends is non-existent.

He is scattered with no interest in learning.

His future is bleak.

As expected Yoni starts falling between the cracks.
He starts disappearing from class.
He is kicked out of one school after another.

He sinks to levels no one thought he could sink to.

He reaches rock bottom.

Decades pass, a boy named Yanky walks into Rabbi HaLevy’s Office.

Yanky tells Rabbi HaLevy:

“I heard that you can help me.
I am a Yeshiva bochur (student) who has not done well.

I have questions about G-d and Judaism that
I want to ask you about.”

Rabbi HaLevy tells him:

“Great, no problem.

Who sent you here?”

The searching bochur tells Rabbi HaLevy his story:

“I have had a very difficult past.
Through all of these difficulties
I reached a point where I was about to break.
I felt I was headed to a place of no return.
I did not know where to go next.

So I went to the Kotel (Western Wall).
There I sat down and cried.

I cried about my situation.
I cried about my loneliness.
I cried that I have no home.
I cried that I have no friends.
I cried that I am crushed and have no place to run.

I saw no future and was on the verge of
putting an end to it all (G-d forbid).”

Yanky sits and cries at the Kotel not knowing what to do.

Suddenly through his tears he notices a man who comes up and sits in a chair next to him.

He is not an old man, somewhere in his mid-30’s.

He is watching Yanky and then starts a conversation.

The man says:
“I noticed you seem emotionally drained.
Is there anything I can do for you?”

Yanky says:

“I wasn’t really interested at first,
but his smile and his interest looked so authentic.
It looked real.

I felt maybe I should speak to him.”

The man tells him:

“If you are worried about the fact that
you are crying in front of me,
do not worry!

I have a degree in depression.
I have a PhD in crying.