#589: Amida: Conclusion of Bakasha of Amida

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when God heard the cries of when God heard the cries of claw is when we were suffering in MIT he heard those cries and he and he responded Hashem heard and he knew he was waiting he was waiting for the nation of the Jewish people to reach out and when we did he remembered us when we did he knew about our suffering that's the promise he just made in last week's para to aam that we would suffer and yet he was waiting for us to call out waiting for us to cry out that was the Catalyst for the Redemption the term prayer he writes is a secular term and it leads to a misunderstanding of our relationship with Hashem prayer is defined as a petition to God in word or thought canotes a one-way relationship with God right when we think about bakha the middle section of the amida we think about let me organize and articulate what are my needs I need knowledge I need health I need livelihood I need Justice I need Redemption what are my needs and in a very One Way relationship how can I when we think about the word prayer how can I petition Basha supplication request how can I ask hasem but said that the term comes from the word which means a wick Nial Nial means intertwined if ail is a wick Nial is when Wicks are intertwined means we are interconnected and intertwined with Hashem like intertwined candle wicks which give greater light than one Wick alone the purpose the purpose of the slavery in MIT was to lead us into a dynamic two-way Rel relationship with Hashem who wanted the Jewish people to cry out so that he could answer so is not just part of our checklist right I need to go to work so I can earn a livelihood I need to go to the doctor so I'll prescribe a medicine and on my list of things I need to do for the livelihood or health is petition God ask God no is not just I ask for things and hopefully I get them the itself is the platform the mechanism it is the way in which I can intertwine myself with him to pray means to be intertwined with Hashem it's more than asking for things it is expressing that our very being is am mesed with and dependent on Hashem the whole reason Hashem puts us in life and in a world in which we have challenges and difficulties is so that we will turn to him ask of him and then we'll become intertwined with him that's what it means don't send me home empty-handed maybe empty-handed from the specific thing I'm asking but let me feel intertwined interconnected n to become interwined withm is our goal as the says when man and become interconnected through we fulfill the words of sh beautiful words of sh made it famous with a song calls the Jewish people what is never heard this before listen to this says don't say my perfect my whole one but to Umi my twin I am not greater than she and she is not greater than I hasm refers to the Jewish people as his twin to demonstrate he shares our destiny the idea of becoming intertwined don't read it tamasi toi my twin K wants the twin he wants our Destinies to be intertwined he's with us in our pain he wants us to grow in our character the intent is the same with the birth pangs that push a baby along the birth canal to arrive at a new level of existence and that's is why us the we're reading right now's dream was fulfilled but not first without her waiting and without her longing why did make our why did they first suffer through struggles with infertility because he wants the of the righteous he wants to prompt us he wants to prompt us doesn't change his mind so to say but by holding something back and our doing to him for it we become am mesed intertwined we become his twin our Destinies are paired our Destinies are paired that's why we read the very beginning of braist a couple weeks ago describes the vegetation in ganeden was waiting under the surface of the soil when did the vegetation finally burst forth and grow what was it waiting for day six what happened on day six Man was created man was created so it was just an efficient thing don't bother making the vegetation grow don't make the salad grow until man's there to eat it mix it no it's more than just an efficiency of Hashem what did man need to do on that sixth day that would prompt the vegetation to grow he needed to ask for it until we ask for it it doesn't come it was there it was ready it was just beneath the surface has storehouses of shef that he's waiting to shower us with but he waits the key to unlock is are asking for it why he on a power just a power thing for him he wants us to ask to praise Him Kal of course not I always give the mush person could have the winning lottery ticket and the lottery ticket says you're going to collect $100 million but you can't call the lottery and say give me my money they say you need to do what you have to have the ticket got to turn it's like the last thing I know of that's not electronic you could take a picture of the ticket you could have an email you could scan the ticket if you're not holding that ticket I I don't know the from personal experience yet yet but believe me I'm trying to finish this campus and I've played it more than I'd like to admit but you have to be holding that ticket to turn it down turn it in created a world that we've won the lottery he hasf that he's waiting to shower us with what's the ticketa why not because he's on some needs a Power Trip what's the reason for he's our twin he wants to be intertwined he wants us to reach out connect surrender submit to him and only then and that's why only man has the power to connect the upper and lower worlds through prayer and that's why we say at prayer connotes a connection between man and God yearning for that connection turns man himself into a prayer so that word that we use throughout the has given us a new perspective on it Basha this middle section of the amida is not just I've got a it it's on my checklist I hope to get it it's what I need to do to get what I want no dwell on it lean into it think about it connect has through it twin with Hashem Hashem I need it how can I serve you if I don't have health parnasa Justice the things that I need I can't best serve you so it's not just a checklist but it's the way that we connect and twin toi it's the way that we connect with hash