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Black Friday Jewish style - Get ready - the 9th month | 9th day | 9th hour - Abundance of blessings

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Rabbi Alon Anava

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Now, before I start, since we're talking about miracles, I must remind you all that this coming Shabbat is a very special day. Not only because it's Shabbat, because the holy books explain, and I did a long video about that last year, that on the ninth month, on the ninth day, on the ninth hour, the gates of mercy in the heavens are open for 9 minutes. So, one needs to calculate where they are exactly when the 9inth hour starts. And it's not the ninth hour that is on the clocks. It's nine ninthly hour. So depending on the location where it is, it can be 50 minutes, can be 45 minutes, can be 55 minutes. Depends. It really depends between the distance between sunrise and sunset. Now I'm not going to talk about how you get to the calculation. I have it on my website. Now I'm just going to remind you that if you calculate where you live, what is the beginning of the 9inth hour? Then you have nine minutes where you know that the gates of mercy in the heavens are open. This year it falls on Shabbat. So that magnifies that a thousand times. And I'm not saying it to sound good. That's what the Benes says. Benish says everything you do on Shabbat is a thousand times power. You read one chapter of Tim on Shabbat. It's like as if you read a thousand times the chapter of anything that you do on Shabbat is magnified a thousand times. Why a thousand? I don't know. And but that's what the Benishai says. And we know that what I do on Shabbat, if I say on Shabbat, the prayer after eating the meal, it's like saying it a thousand times, like as if I said it a thousand days. So everything I do on Shabbat is quadruple. So same thing here. So the ninth month, ninth day, ninth hour this year falls on Shabbat. [snorts] What I recommend you can go to my website and a see how you do the calculation. It's very very simple and also on the web pages major cities in the world that I wrote uh the hours but over on that page you'll find the prayers what to say what needs to be done everything. I highly recommend to take advantage of of that because uh ironically it comes very close to black Friday. So it's the same concept of black Friday by the way. Black Friday which I don't know who invented the name and but the concept behind black behind black Friday and for years it was only known in America. If you were tell European Black Friday, they don't know what you're talking about. But nevertheless, now it became more popular. So Black Friday is get whatever you want for 90% off, right? That's the the the the concept, 80%. Don't argue on the percentage right now, but you can get goods, services, and so forth for a very big discount. and everybody goes and waits outside the Best Buy and steps of other people to get the PlayStation for $3 less. So, but that's the idea. So, who do you think invented Black Friday? Walmart? No, Hashem in invented Black Friday. Just doesn't call it Black Friday. He calls it different times. So, it's not that I know a lot of people tell me, "Why can't I do it every day when Hashem doesn't listen to me every day?" has nothing to do with what when Hashem is listening to you. Hashem set times. If you read the Torah, it says clearly in the par of Noah, right after the flood that when Noah came out of the flood, out of the ark, Hashem set rules in this world of seasons, temperatures, and many other things. Times, seasons will come in it also periods. So, Hashem set everything up. And there's reasons why there are uh days that are more aspicious and days that are less. No, you can't do everything that you want every day. Of course, Hashem listens to you every day. But to reach to Hashem on a regular day versus to reach to Hashem on an aspicious day, whole different thing. I don't know if you noticed as I'm coming in a young man asks me are you Rabbi Nava? Yeah. Can I speak to you? So my answer was no. I'm starting a class. Okay. Can I speak to you after the class? I said, "No, I have meetings." So, when can I speak to you? I said, "Go call my secretary. She'll make you an appointment." You think you're going to just crash on me and I'll have time for you before you? There's 500 people. So, it's not that I don't want to talk to him or can talk to right now. I can't. Why? There's other other engagements. I have other meetings. You think I'm just going to leave the entire world because you came? No, there's a time for everything. So you want to talk, go make an appointment and your time will come. It's not that I don't want to talk. So it's the same thing with Hashem. Hashem says, "You think I'm just going to give you everything on demand whenever you want, however you want, and within an abundance." No, you're going to abuse it. If I'm just going to give you whatever you want, A, you're going to abuse it. B, you won't repreciate it. And most important, you're not going to benefit from that. If I just leave cash on my table and tell my kids, "Whenever you need money, here's the cash." First of all, it wouldn't be going down one bill after the other. Somebody would come and take the whole stash. It's here. But no, no, no, no, no, no. The stash is here that every time somebody can come and take one bill, it's for everybody. But the reality is that the first one that will come will take the whole pile. Same concept in a different way. Hashem wants to give us everything as much as we want in an abundance. If he will put it on the table for us to grab, no challenge, no effort, no appreciation, no nothing cuz I have abundance of it. Very simple. So Hashem also restricts when this abundance can come easily. So you will appreciate it. You will wait for that. Imagine there would be a yonipur every day. You would sin all day long. Why? Let me sin now. In the night is yon kipur. I'll get my sins forgiven. So says, "Oh, no, no, no. You wait once a year. Once a year I'm going to make you wait for the day that you can wash off all your sins and I'll give you atonement. But you think you're just going to zoom in, zoom out." No, no, no, no. You want something good, you stand in line. That's it. So that's the reason why there are good days and less good days or I I would rather call it instead of a good day a more aspicious time that there's closeness to Hashem. That the bottom line is all that I'm talking about is how close you are to Hashem. That's what it boils down to.