Don't Ask God for Specifics! Wisdom from the Talmud

The Gemara in Maseches Mo'ed Katan tells us never be specific with your request to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. As one of the Tana'im came to a Beis Knesses and saw that one of the bachurim there was crying. And he asked the bachur, "Why are you crying, young man?" And he said to him, "I'm crying because I saw a girl and she's the best one and she's the beautiful one and I want to marry her." He said, "So why are you crying?" He said, "Because she doesn't want to marry me." So the chacham told him, "Don't ask Hakadosh Baruch Hu in your prayer her to you as a wife. You don't ask Hashem for specific things. You ask him for salvation. You ask him to help you in the best way possible. When you ask him for specifics, you are limiting him and in fact you are assuming you know better than him." A year later, the same chacham came back to that Beis Knesses and he saw the young man crying again. And he says to him, "Why are you crying, young man?" And he says, "I'm crying over the girl." He says, "The same GIRL? YOU'RE STILL CRYING OVER A year later because she won't marry you?" He says, "No, chacham, no. I'm crying because she did marry me and she's torturing me and she's terrible." And the Gemara says, "From here you learn you don't ask Hakadosh Baruch Hu for specifics. Don't ask him for a specific amount of money. Don't ask him for a specific guy or a specific girl. He gives you a blessing, you say thank you, 'Yishtabach Shimo La'ad.' Finished."