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20 — Ep 20: WHY ARE THERE FEW OBVIOUS MIRACLES IN RECENT GENERATIONS?
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welcome to the B alvy episode 20 the bet
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now tells a very important Rule and that
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is our level of is depends on the amount
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of bet we have the more a person
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believes in Hashem the less they need to
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do the less they believe in Hashem they
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more they need to do and therefore
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there's no exact amount of that I can
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tell you to do or not to do it depends
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on society in the days of old most
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ladies gave birth in the home there was
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no such thing as going to the hospital
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that was considered normal to get
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yourself a good Midwife Ryman said that
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today if a lady decides to give birth at
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home that is not proper it's not
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accepted we have to go with society's
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norms and cover up the miracle and do
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what you feel is enough and you're
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confident in those Norms but but again
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it's up to you and he quotes a midash
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that says on
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the I will be that I will
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be like you act with
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me I act with you and it the ramban
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quotes a similar mid on
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the God is like a shadow on your right
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side if you give a shadow one finger it
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gives you back one finger you give a
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shadow two fingers it gives you back two
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fingers God is like our shadow the more
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that we give forth bet the more God
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gives back to us it's
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reciprocal we find this concept by
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shimita the pasuk says that I promise
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you in the sixth year you're going to
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have a uh you're going to have food and
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you're going to be eat a little bit and
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and it's going to be blessed in your
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stomach you eat a little bit it's going
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to be blessed in your
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stomach and then it says if you say what
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are we going to eat and God
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says I'm going to command my blessing
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and you're going to have a bumper crop
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enough for the six in the seventh and
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the eighth year so the question is and
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if a person doesn't ask what I'm going
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to eat then he's not going to have a
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bumper crop the SEO says let's read the
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P carefully the man that believes in
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Hashem what happens he gets the same
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crop as he always did but because he
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believes in God doesn't ask questions
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God makes a miracle and normally he ate
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one bowl of cereal and was full now all
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he needs is a half a bow of cereal
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they'll be a blessing and he'll have to
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do less work cuz one year's work will
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help him for two years and take a year
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off the man that says what am I going to
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eat so God makes a bumper crop with
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double the amount of food and double the
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amount of work cuz he didn't believe in
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the miracle so God had to bring it about
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in a more natural way and therefore says
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the Elder naric it's a self-fulfilling
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prophecy the guy that says I need to
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work from 88: in the morning till 7 at
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night you're right you will need to work
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from 8: in the morning till 7 at night
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you'll say hey if I didn't do all that
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work I wouldn't make any money you're
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right you wouldn't make any money you
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decided the amount of his the amount of
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effort that you need to do depends on
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how much you believe you need to do so
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no one can ever prove you're wrong
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because if you don't believe you do need
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to work that much and if you do believe
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then you don't can never be proved in a
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laboratory have a wonderful
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day