HOSHANOS

Motzie Shabbos, the night before Hoshana Raba my uncle made arrangements to buy Aravos from a boy who was selling them. Not only was he selling them- he was also doing house deliveries. At Nine-thirty there was a knock at the door. It was the boy selling the Aravos.

"I'm going to buy eight of them," my uncle said.

"Sure,they are four dollars a bundle," the boy said counting out each bundle carefully.

My uncle handed the boy Thirty-two dollars and thanked him.

The next morning my uncle was counting each of the Aravos for the people in his family when he realized that he had nine bundles, the boy had given him an extra one by mistake.

"I'm going to bring it to Shul with me, you never know maybe someone forgot to buy."

My Uncle made his way to Shul, within minutes of entering Shul, a young man came running over to him,

"Hi, I'm so happy to see you! I just wanted tor return this Sefer to you, before I forget, I have to run now, have a great Yom Tov! I have a plane to catch and I totally forgot to buy Aravos. I'm going to see if I can still buy somewhere."

"Actually you can buy from me right here. I have an extra one, here you go. It's four dollars"

The man thanked my Uncle over and over again.

 When my uncle got home he called the young boy to tell him that he by mistake gave him nine bundles, but my uncle had sold it and he had four dollars for the boy!

The boy was so happy!