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Vows That Brings Disaster -1

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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They have excitement and they watch and they want to donate. Rabbi, you're Mashiach. Rabbi, you save my life. Okay, great. Listen, I promise this year I'm going to donate X amount of money. Okay, fine. Shimmy fulfill it. Only problem is if you don't fulfill it, you're bringing tragedy on yourself. Or people buy aliot at the besset during the high holidays or they say to the organization, listen, give me the blessing and I'll pay the uh I'll pay for the donation soon throughout this year. And they don't they don't realize they just made a vow. They don't you don't need to say the word in order to make a vow. And I could tell you from things I saw with my own eyes how literally a person starts off by making a decision to do something good because they want Hashem to bless them with more. when they did not fulfill their end. Instead of bringing themselves blessings, they brought themselves disaster. In one case, a person made a vow. Didn't say the word vow, but said, "Rabbi, I'm going to donate x amount of money this year. No problem." He didn't. Eight months later, Rabbi, I need you to pray for me. My business is not working. What do you mean? You were doing okay in the beginning. So much so that you were already committing to giving X amount. Yeah, I was doing good in the beginning, but now it's not good. Oh, so Hashem did start blessing you, but you did not fulfill your vow. You delayed it. Started taking the blessing. Another case person decided that he wants to donate but in payments. No problem. But as you know,