Lech Lecha - Heavenly Decree

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 · Posted in ,


FOUR ACTIONS HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE A HEAVENLY DECREE


  • Tzedakah - Giving Charity
  • Tefillah - Prayer
  • Teshuvah - Improving one's deeds
  • Shinui Shem - Being renamed
Some add:

  • Shinui Hamakom - Changing residence
We learn this last point from the fact that Hashem told Avram, "Go out rom your land, etc. and I will make of you a great nation." Avram only merited children after changing his residence.

Moving to a strange place helps annul a Heavenly decree since a man's heart is humbled when he is exiled from his home.

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Source: Midrash Says




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