As told to: Basya Lev
IT WAS LATE THURSDAY NIGHT and just as I was headed off to sleep, my phone started to ring. I went to check it and saw that my friend from Lakewood was calling. With great excitement, she told me she had found a worm while checking her barley. She knew I would appreciate her call because I had called her a few months before to tell her about my finding a worm in a dried apricot I had checked. We had spoken about how even though it is unpleasant to find a worm, it feels good to know there is a reason for checking our food. She said she’d put the barley on her counter and at first, the worm was curled up so she had almost missed it. She felt it was pure hashgacha pratis that she saw the worm. Then, out of curiosity, she put the barley with the worm in a container and filled it with water (the way I was taught to check). To her surprise, the worm did not float up to the top of the water. That next Shabbos, I changed the way I checked my barley!
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