Halakhah for Berakhot 13:18
כל שעתא אית ביה שורייקי סומקי בההיא שעתא לית ביה שורייקי סומקי.
During the rest of the day there are many red streaks in it, but not at the afore-mentioned time.
Sefer HaChinukh
And maybe, my son, you will think to come to me with that which is written (Psalms 7:12), "and God gets furious every day" - and they, may their memory be blessed, said (Berakhot 7a), "And how much is His fury? An instant." And you, my son, should not err in this, God forbid, that there be evil to God, and that your heart believe about Him, blessed be He, anything but all perfection. And the matter of anger only happens in us from the angle of our being inferior physical beings. And in truth the fury that they mentioned about Him is only by way of analogy to a matter of the world. Their intention [with it] was to say that in that the majority of people in the world are pulled after their desires and there are many among them that worship the sun, the moon and the constellations - and even trees and stones - the world constantly becomes liable for extinction. And maybe the reason for their saying that His fury is for an instant every day is that since the world is judged according to its majority and that the world becomes liable because of their bad deeds on each and every day; they, may their memory be blessed, compared that small moment when a sinner completes the majority [of the world's actions] with his sin, to the fury of God. As everything is fit at the instant for extinction from the power of [God's] trait of justice, except that [His] trait of kindness immediately determines [otherwise] and preserves it. And accept this, my son, from me until you hear [something] better than it.
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