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An exploration of how Divine Direction influences shidduchim and other areas of life.
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[singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Welcome to Amuna Hour with the Sham's Loving Grace. This is lesson 245. Tonight we're learning all about shidduchim. Who makes the match? Who's really in charge of the shidduch? People think, well, they do all types of hishtadlus, all types of effort, and this will be good for shidduchim, this will be bad for shidduchim. Don't let this interfere. It's all It's all a joke. It's all a big joke, as we'll learn in our first lesson of divine direction. That In the first three lessons we learned the general concept of divine direction. Now, in the coming lessons, beginning from tonight, the coming lessons we're going to learn how divine direction, which some people call divine providence, more accurate according to the Rambam, divine how it influences every area in our life. And tonight we're going to learn about shidduchim, matchmaking. Because matchmaking is where it all begins. So, we'll find and you pay attention to tonight's lesson. It's going to help you find a soulmate for yourself, or for your children, or to help advise someone else. Okay, so I'm going to begin with a story from the Midrash. Uh there was a Roman noblewoman, and she asked Rabbi Yossi bar Chalafta, who was among the holy Tana'im, and uh how long how many days did it take God to create the world? He said six days, because the Torah says in six days Hashem made the heaven and the earth, and then he rested on the seventh day. Well, she then asked, "Well, what has Hashem been doing since he created the world?" Because it was People think that Hashem created the world, put it to automatic pilot, and then he's retired. No. So, Rabbi Yossi says, "He sits and he matches up soulmates. He declares so-and-so's daughter is destined for so-and-so's son,
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