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If a person is in need of assistance from others but no one is around to help him, what should he do then? The answer, as always, is to pray. Hashem could put thoughts in other people’s minds to come and give us the help that we need, right when we need it. We have seen time and time again how Hashem has given people the immediate assistance that they were seeking. A Rabbi from Bnei Brak said he once came to the bus station in Yerushalayim , trying to catch the last bus that leaves from there to Bnei Brak at 1:00 am. When he arrived, he saw there were already about 200 people waiting. He thought to himself, even if 3 buses would come, there still wouldn’t be enough room for him to get on, which meant, in the normal course of events, he would have to stay overnight in Yerushalayim . The problem was that he didn’t have a place to stay. He walked a short distance away from the bus stop and began praying from the depths of his heart, saying, “ HaKadosh Baruch Hu , I know only You could help me. Please, help me get home so I can sleep and be able to serve You properly with my regular schedule tomorrow.” When he finished his tefila , a car pulled up next to him and a window rolled down. A passenger asked him if he needed a ride to Bnei Brak. He happily replied yes and took the last remaining seat in the back. While on their way, he was told how he was zocheh to such a clear hashgacha pratit from Hashem. A father and son were on their way to Bnei Brak with the son driving the car. When they passed the bus stop, they felt so bad for all those people waiting and decided to offer a few people a ride. The father told the son they could fit three in the back, but the son was nervous to squeeze a third in his small back seat and so they only picked up two. But, as they were driving away, the son felt remorse, feeling that maybe he could have taken a third, so they stopped next to that Rabbi, asking him if he needed a ride. Hashem answered his tefila on the spot. A different Rabbi told me, a couple of years ago on Chol HaMoed Sukkot, the roof of his sukkah totally collapsed. He has a very large sukkah and it would have taken him hours to restore. There was no one around to help him and it was a very big job. He turned to Hashem and prayed that He help him put the sukkah back together. An hour later, the Rabbi got a phone call from a man saying that he is from Lakewood, New Jersey and he came to Brooklyn for the day. He learned that it is proper to visit one’s Rabbi on Chol Hamoed and said he considers himself a student of the Rabbi, being that he listens to so many of his classes online. He asked the Rabbi if he had a few minutes to spare for him to come visit. The Rabbi was home alone that day and was happy to invite this man over. A half hour later he showed up and they sat in the Rabbi’s living room. The man asked the Rabbi if they could please sit in the sukkah. The Rabbi explained to him what happened. The man told him his job for two months a year is building sukkot and he would be happy to go fix it. When the man saw the damage, he told the Rabbi, “I know exactly what to do. I don’t need any help. You go learn and I’ll do the job.” Thirty minutes later, the sukkah was as good as new. What were the odds that of all the people in the world, a sukkah builder would call this Rabbi, asking to come to his house at that specific time? The power of tefillah is amazing and we should utilize it as much as we can.