The Power of Prayer
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Question
Can prayer change the predetermined match decreed for a person, in terms of the identity of the spouse and the timing of the marriage? How can we reconcile the words of the Gemara in Moed Katan 18: that prayer does not help to change the match ("since the daughter of so-and-so is for so-and-so") and one should not pray for this due to fear of despair and disbelief in prayer, with the fact that Leah, our matriarch, prayed and married Jacob instead of Esau?
Answer
Hello and happy Purim
Answered by our teacher, the Gaon, Rabbi Avraham Fried, shlita:
Prayer can change what has already been decreed.
Source
Our teacher, the Gaon, Rabbi Avraham Fried, shlita