The Captor Who Became a Captive
A noble who imprisoned the Raavad later found himself exiled to the very city where the Raavad was staying.
Near the end of the Shevet Yehuda, the author records a short account from the life of the Raavad. In the year 4932 (1172) a nobleman named Alzud had the Raavad placed in prison.
The following year, 4933, war broke out between the nobleman and Count Roger of Carcassonne. The count prevailed and took Alzud captive. His punishment was exile to Carcassonne, and he arrived there at a time when the Raavad was living in that very city.
The author of the Shevet Yehuda saw in this the hand of Divine providence. The man who had once held a tzaddik in chains now stood in the same city as a defeated prisoner, and the tzaddik stood there free.
The Meiri tells that the Raavad reached Carcassonne after leaving Posquieres during a war, and that the townspeople, seeing the great man among them, asked him to settle. He agreed, and in Carcassonne he wrote his Hilchos Lulov.
Source: Shevet Yehuda (Rav Shlomo ibn Verga), closing passage on Rav Avrohom ben Dovid and the nobleman Alzud; Meiri, Magen Avos, on the writing of Hilchos Lulov in Carcassonne.
In this account the Raavad is not the one who turns the tables; events do it. If someone has treated you unfairly this week, whether at work, in the family or in your community, choose not to plan your answer. Take one hour to do something useful with your day, learn a page, call a friend, or give tzedakah, and leave the judging to Hashem, who sees what you cannot.