Miracles & Gumballs | Rabbi Gavriel Friedman

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

This past summer, my family and I decided to take a little bit of a trip. There were a couple of flights involved. We live in Eretz Yisroel, we had to go and take a stopover in Italy. Although on the way there, there was an unexpected change of events. We had to stop over in Cyprus. What's the problem with that? Very small connection time in Italy. We said: Maybe we'll make it. But things were taking their time in Cyprus, and I was, like: Uh-oh, I hope we're going to make it. And my wife is, like: What do we do? And we're calling up and sending emails and hopefully, maybe we're going to make it. I said to myself: You know what? A lot of these Vayimaen videos are pretty powerful ideas. Maybe I'll do that also. So I said: Hashem, listen, I'm careful. I try to be careful with my Shmiras Einayim, but I'm going to go overboard now, I'm going to do even more. I'm going to do above and beyond. In the zchus of that, can You please make sure that we make our flight in Italy? טרם אדבר, maybe a second later, I’m not even done, I get an email on my phone. And you have to understand, we were in the sky already. It didn't make any sense, I didn’t have any service. But I got an email that said: Your next flight from Italy is delayed. I said: I can't believe it, it worked.

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1. 0:07This past summer, my family and I decided to take a little bit of a trip.…
2. 0:37A lot of these Vayimaen videos are pretty powerful ideas. Maybe I'll do that also. So…
3. 1:07That is unbelievable. This is crazy. We're going to make the flight, after all. We ended…
4. 1:37You know what happened to all that? It all happens, the question is when. Sometimes we…
5. 2:08and you're stuck in the airport for like 15 hours, have to repay and rebook another…
6. 2:38This is the גזירת המלך. This is what You want me to be doing, I'm going…

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