When 16-year-old Sari Gold­man, a new stu­dent at Bais Yaakov High School, fol­lows her teacher’s instruc­tions to write about how win­ning a lot­tery tick­et would impact her life, she nev­er expects to actu­al­ly win any­thing from the tick­et which her moth­er pur­chas­es for her assign­ment! It turns out that her teacher real­ly just want­ed the stu­dents in her hashkafa (Jew­ish out­looks and per­spec­tives) class to con­sid­er what would hap­pen if they won. She wants the girls to real­ize that win­ning would be too big a test from Hashem, and has the class read about all the cas­es where win­ning the lot­tery has ruined fam­i­lies’ lives. For the assign­ment, Sari has drawn up a con­tract detail­ing how the mon­ey should be spent, includ­ing fac­tor­ing in giv­ing a por­tion to maser, a tithe of 10% – 20% to char­i­ty. She and her fam­i­ly con­sult with their Rav about giv­ing enough tzeda­ka from the 147 mil­lion dol­lars lot­tery mon­ey she wins while stick­ing to her con­tract, and they use the mon­ey in good ways. The author writes humor­ous­ly about rela­tion­ships with­in Sari’s big fam­i­ly, as she shows how win­ning the wind­fall changes all their lives.