To illustrate what I said before that Hashem helps before he helps, I'd like to tell a story of Rabbi Yitzchak Berdichever. There was once a chasid that came to the Berdichever, and he told him that he was a rich man, but now he lost all his money. He did bad deals and he lost all his money, and besides that, he has a lot of creditors, he owes a lot of money, and he has a daughter that he has to marry off, and he's in a very bad situation, and the truth is no one knows that yet, but soon people will find out that he went bankrupt, and then the creditors are going to come and pressure him, etc., etc. What should he do? So the Berdichever says to him, \"I think you should buy a lottery ticket, and you'll be helped with a lottery ticket.\" So the chasid says to him, \"I definitely believe and I'm guaranteed that what the Rebbe said will happen, but who knows when it'll happen? The seder, especially then, if you win a lottery ticket, then it takes many long time till you get the money, and therefore till that'll happen, the בעלי חובות, the creditors will come and bother me, and what should I do with my daughter?\" So the Berdichever promised him that Hashem will get him money even before he wins the lottery. So the chasid actually went and bought a lottery ticket, and then on the way home, he stopped off in an inn and he slept over there. That same night, a poritz also passed by and slept over there. At night, this poritz had a dream that in this inn that you are in now, there is a Yid who has a lottery ticket that's going to win a lot of money, and therefore you should try to change your lottery ticket for his. He didn't care, but he fell asleep again and slept had the same dream again. He woke up, he told his attendant to go find out, is there a some Yid here? And if you find him, call him, I want to speak to him. The attendant went, found the Yid, and he brought him to this poritz. So the poritz asked him, \"Do you have a lottery ticket?\" He says, \"Yes.\" So the poritz says, \"I also have a lottery ticket. Let's change, let's exchange. Give me yours, I'll give you mine, and I'll give you a few dollars, a few ruble, whatever it is for it.\" And the Yid said no, cuz in his mind he knew that the Rebbe said that he's going to win, so he didn't want to give it away. So he said, \"I'm going to give you more than you said.\" He said, \"No.\" Finally, he went up all the way to a thousand, I don't know, golden coins or something, and the Yid said, \"No, I'm not exchanging it.\" The poritz got up very angry and told his attendant to force it out of the Yid's hands, to take away the lottery ticket. So he went, forced the lottery ticket away from the Yid, and he gave it to this poritz. And then the poritz said to the Yid, \"Even though I took it you by force, but since I did mention to you that I would give you up to a thousand golden coins, I will give it to you.\" So he gave him a thousand golden coins, and he left. So the Yid was upset, but he took the money that he gave him, and he left, and he said, \"גם זו לטובה, this is going to be for the best.\" The meantime, he had money to marry off his daughter, and he had enough money to live. And then, when it came to the the lottery, his the one that he had that the poritz gave him was the one that won the lottery. So he went back to the Berdichever, and he told him what happened. So the Berdichever said, \"I saw that your matzav is bad, so I had to send,\" he said, \"the בעל החלומות,\" he called him, \"the one that's in charge of the dreams, to convince this poritz that he should change his lottery ticket for yours because I saw that his lottery ticket is going to be the one to win. And the reason I made it that you should get extra thousand before that, because if you remember, I promised you that before the yeshuah will come, before you'll win the lottery ticket, you'll have a yeshuah before that too. Not such a big yeshuah, you'll have a small yeshuah. So now you had a small yeshuah that you had a thousand golden coins, and then the Eibershter brought you the big yeshuah that you won the lottery ticket.\" So the chasid went home, and he became even a bigger rich man than before.

One of the big Polish Rebbe's, when he told over the story, he said like this: this is the pshat in the pasuk where it says Hashem told יעקב אבינו, כי לא אעזבך עד אשר אם עשיתי את אשר דברתי לך. \"I'm not going to leave you till I do what I promised you, what I said to you.\" And he asked a question: what does he mean that I'm not going to leave you till I keep my promise, but after I keep my promise, I am going to leave you? So what does he mean I'm not going to leave you till I keep my promise? So he said this is what he meant. The fact that he's going not leave him for sure, but he said even before my promise is done, before the real yeshuah comes, I'm also not going to leave you. I'm going to give you a ישועה קטנה. So now also we have to hope for the big yeshuah, the big yeshuah is Mashiach is going to come very, very soon, but we have bitachon that the Eibershter will bring a small yeshuah. Right away he'll bring, even before Mashiach comes, which you hope will be very, very soon, but he'll bring a small yeshuah that till he's going to help, he's also going to help.