How it all began

My wife and I wanted to make aliyah since we got married, but finances were always an obstacle. I don't mean to live richly, just to pay for the move. Debt and tuition were killing us.

To get the process itself rolling G-d had to intervene. In November 2003 I had my first trip to Israel on business with Intel (for whom I worked in the US). It was my first time here. In the same week that I was here, my boss' boss, who is not Jewish, happened to be here as well on an unrelated matter. After spending a few days here he comes over to me in the hall way and asks: "Do you feel here at home?" I said, "Of course, I do". He said, "Want to move?". And so Intel arranged the relocation. It took them about a year to schedule it, but if not for them I doubt it would happen any time soon. We were coming employed and not just employed, really well employed. In addition Nefesh B'Nefesh helped with the bureacracy and here we are.

The Navi (Yirmiyah 3:14) says:
.שׁוּבוּ בָנִים שׁוֹבָבִים נְאֻם-יְהוָה, כִּי אָנֹכִי בָּעַלְתִּי בָכֶם; וְלָקַחְתִּי אֶתְכֶם אֶחָד מֵעִיר, וּשְׁנַיִם מִמִּשְׁפָּחָה, וְהֵבֵאתִי אֶתְכֶם, צִיּוֹן
"... I will take you one from a city and two from a family, and bring you to Zion."

So if I could not pick myself up, G-d had to pick me up by the scruff of my neck and move me. But I didn't know yet that His services were not free ...