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Mincha-Maariv Moves Earlier With the Clock Change
Part of Farbrengens
With the clocks changing, Rabbi Schapiro announces that Mincha-Maariv will shift an hour earlier and encourages everyone who can to keep attending despite the new, less convenient time.
Audio Transcript
Good evening, this is Rabbi Shapiro. This coming מוצאי שבת אם ירצה השם, we are changing the clock, which means everything becomes an hour earlier. So automatically, mincha maariv will be an hour earlier, which means that the coming week it'll be 5:30, the week after maybe 5:25. It's at that time of the day. And at that time of the day, sometimes it's harder for people to get out to daven mincha maariv in shul. So what I'm trying to be me'orer is that whoever is only able to, even if it's not so easy, but somebody is only able to, to come to participate in the minyanim, even though it's earlier, would be highly appreciated. As a matter of fact, there are some people it might even be easier for them. For some people it's harder. It's early and they're still at work, but some people actually it's right after they finish work. So instead of coming home and then later have to go out again to mincha maariv, you could come straight from work you could come to mincha maariv. Or some people work from home, so it's easier to go out at that time, about 5:30, 5:15, rather than going out later, 7:00, or sometimes it's 8:00. It's harder to go out from the house, so it's easier if it's this time. But on the other hand, for some people it's harder. So what I'm being me'orer that it's very important that anybody who is only able to come to the minyanim of mincha maariv during the week would be highly, highly appreciated. And we
have to know, it's not only to make sure that the people that come to shul have a minyan so they'll daven b'tzibbur. It's noge'a to the whole community. Because when there's a minyan davening in shul, all the people who belong to that shul, belong to that community, get the berachot that come from תפילה בציבור. We know it says in the Gemara that when you daven תפילה בציבור, the Aibershter listens to your tefillot. The Aibershter never pushes away a tefillah from a minyan. So it brings all the berachot. If somebody cannot come for some reason, so it says the people of his community who daven in shul, they're motzi him and they bring the berachot to him, too. So the fact that there's a minyan in shul brings berachot to everyone of the community. So everyone should try to make sure that the minyan goes on. And besides that, if you come yourself, adrabah v'adrabah, you get all the berachot. So I'm asking that everybody should try their hardest to come to mincha maariv during the week. And I'm also asking the women to encourage the men that even though sometimes it's hard, but they have to give up a little bit also, so their husband would be able to come to shul and daven mincha maariv with a minyan, plus to be able to be part of the pillars of keeping up the minyan, which brings greatest berachot. Hashem should help, He should accept all our tefillot, everybody in whatever he needs, in gashmiyut and ruchniyut, in parnasah, in gezunt, in good shidduchim, that by keeping up the minyan, the Eibershter will give us all these ברכות מידו המלאה הפתוחה הקדושה והרחבה.