Harnessing the Skies: How Intentional Prayer Can Transform Your World and Bring Abundant Blessings

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Explore the profound connection between our prayers and the divine forces that shape our world. What if your earnest prayers could influence the rains, prosperity, and success in your life? Join us as we journey through the symbolic transition from "V'Sein Bracha" to "V'Sein Tal U'matar Livracha" in the Birkas Hashonim blessing, a metaphor for the struggles and triumphs of making positive, lasting changes. Discover why altering deeply ingrained habits, like the way we recite Shemoneh Esrei, requires more than rote repetition—it demands heartfelt intention and understanding.

In a world where God's messengers are at work through rain, photosynthesis, and natural phenomena, we reflect on the potential power of our supplications. Unpack the belief that sincere prayers can move divine forces, influence prosperity, and even shift weather patterns in our favor. Learn how embracing the full meaning of our prayers, particularly those asking for communal blessings, can lead to tangible changes in our lives. Let this episode inspire you to infuse your prayers with purpose, seeking a season of blessings and prosperity for your family and community.

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See for yourself just how hard it is to make lasting, positive change in your life From the reality that it's now the winter months and, in the blessing of Birkas Hashonim and Shmona Esrei, we are now to switch from V'Sein Bracha to V'Sein Tal U'matar Livracha.

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Send dew and rain for a blessing.

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Send dew and rain for a blessing and just see how hard it can be to change the way that our brains naturally say the bracha.

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We naturally go right into how we've done our Shemona Esrei in this very monotonous, rather lip service filled utterance of the bracha.

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And so, nearly 30 days, more than 90 tzvilos, it takes for us to get into that new rote and routine of saying the same Talmud or Levracha.

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It shows us how hard it is to even just change the way that we say what we are trying to say.

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But even after we do get the proper injunction, do not fall prey to missing out on what those words actually have to offer.

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Intrigue God for rain, we are told.

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Make the proper injunction in the blessing of the years that Hashem please send, do and reign for a blessing.

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Now think about it.

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It is no secret that God runs the world with his malacha At the end when he created the world.

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Six days he worked and he finishes malacha.

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Malacha, that is Hashem's messengers of his divine thoughts.

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Andacha, that is Hashem's messengers of His divine thoughts, and everything, all the forces of nature.

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They come to us as messengers of Hashem with certain lessons.

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Rambam codifies this law.

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Just think and contemplate about the world and you'll be ignited in your soul and in your heart, lit aflame, to want to know more about the Almighty and His omnipotence.

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When it comes to bracha, rain, parnasa, success, livelihood and what it will mean for you and for your children.

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Let that injunction hit home, because the rain is for all of the world.

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The clouds, the way that photosynthesis happens, cumulonimbus clouds, cirrus clouds.

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The rain gets sucked up, condensation happens and then rain comes down, waters the earth.

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But you are saying, god, please send it my way, please send the bracha.

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And Hashem can change and does change often and frequently, all of his malacha, all of his divine instruments and messengers.

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For one human, if you have a good Shemoneh Asrei, god promises that.

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Daven to me, pray to me, and I listen.

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God even makes some of his actions contingent upon the sages that if they will daven, only then will it go through.

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So pray V'Sein Tal Umotr Livracha.

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God, I need some more money to make ends meet.

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God, I want to take my family on a vacation.

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Can you move the clouds in a way that the rain comes a bit more to my direction?

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Can you make my stocks and index funds raise, increase, go up a few points?

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The same Tal U'matar Livracha.

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Take it to heart.

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Choose to make the right injunction and choose to take that injunction of the same Talumat or Livracha to heart and entreat God.

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For you and your family, for a winter season filled with rain and dew, that is a blessing.

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