Give Way to the Hour and the Hour Falls Into Your Hand

"And Moses fled from before Pharaoh." It is written, "Go, my people, enter your chambers" (Isaiah 26:20): when you see the hour acting insolently, do not stand against it, but give it room. Look at Me, as it were: when I saw the hour acting insolently because of your sins, I gave it room, as it says, "He drew His right hand backward" (Lamentations 2:3). Everyone who stands against the hour falls into its hand, and everyone who gives room to the hour, the hour falls into his hand. Naboth stood against the hour and fell into its hand. Abraham gave room to the hour and fled from before Nimrod, and it fell into his hand. Isaac gave room to the hour and it fell into his hand, as it says, "And Abimelech went to him from Gerar" (Genesis 26:26). Moses gave room to the hour, as it says, "And Moses fled from before Pharaoh," and the hour turned and fell into his hand, as it says, "Moreover the man Moses was very great in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants." David gave room to the hour, "And David fled from Naioth" (1 Samuel 20:1), and the hour turned and fell into his hand, and Saul said to him, "I know that you shall surely reign." And likewise Jacob gave room to the hour, "And Jacob fled to the field of Aram," and the hour fell into his hand, "And Esau took his wives" (Genesis 36:6) [and departed from before him].