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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.