Shnayim Yomi - Vayeitzei - R'vi'i - #4 - Rabbi Shlomo Landau - Praying for a Miracle

[Music] Leia just has child number six and then she finds out she's pregnant again and she panics cuz she made a simple calculation. She already had six of the she knew there would be 12. That means there's six left. Bill and Zelpa each have two. That's 10. That leaves two more for Raal. If this child is a boy then raal only has one and she's inferior to even the bill and zilpa and that can't be. So she dams hashem and she says hashem please spare the humiliation of my sister and hashem makes an incredible miracle. He takes the baby in her stomach which was a boy and he switches the gender to a girl and Dina is born enabling Rael to have y and simple question we know that you're allowed to do for a lot of things one of the things we do not davin for is to change tea is to change nature to do things that are so miraculous that hashem must change nature so how could leia davin that hashem should change nature you don't allow davin for that perhaps the answer is that it wasn't changing nature. Because you see, when one Jewish person cares so deeply about another Jewish person's pain, that they're willing to do anything for them, that's not supernatural. That's nature. The brother created the world to be kind. It was a kindness that he created it and to do kindness. The ultimate kindness is when we realize another person is in pain and we try to alleviate that pain. When we do that, that is tea. That is nature. So Leiaing for that a miracle should happen. That wasn't praying for a miracle. That was using the rules of nature. That was look how powerful taking another person's feelings into account actually is.