Connecting Emunah and Kavanah - Rabbi Daniel Glanz

for a person to dove in with real kavanah it really does require a tremendous amount of immuno the question is do we have the ammuna the faith necessary to daven with kavanagh most of us feel that we have faith and trust in hashem we believe hashem is capable and we believe that there is nothing hashem cannot do hashem is all-powerful so if that's true then why don't we daven with more kavanagh if hashem is capable to do anything then why is it that we're not shaking the heavens with our tafila of course we have a moon in hashem but the ammuna that we need in order to have proper kawan in filah is actually not faith in hashem it's faith in ourselves do we actually believe that our tefila matters do we actually believe that our tefila has the power to affect things do we believe that when we daven for parnassa that that might actually that that will actually help our parnassa do we believe that if someone's sick that our tephila can make the difference do we believe that the goula can be affected the redemption can be affected by our tefilo do we really believe that do we believe that hashem is really listening and really cares about what it is that i do in my own fila we have no doubt that we have faith in god and faith in his potential to do anything the reason we have trouble in kavana and phila is let's just be honest we don't really believe in the power of artfilos we don't really believe that it can make a difference but boy can it make a difference ravpinkus writes that akaresh baruch who waits for art filos and that sometimes sakarasparaku will specifically even if a person is going through difficulty even if claudius draws going through difficulty he will make it as if he does not know that it's happening until we call out to him in our time of need in fact ramban writes that the main mitzvah of tefila if there is a mitzvah at all is to call out to hashem in your time of need because waits for our fellows that's how much power our filos have that it's not even will not necessarily act based on the need that we have he waits for our telos in a certain sense if it's even possible to say that hashem made the world in such a way that our fellows even have more power than him because he will not act alone he waits for our fellows and only then does he act this is what it means in the gemarang suv greater is the actions of the tsadikim than the actions of a creation because in terms of his maintenance in terms of his act his activity in the world and in changing things in the world he waits for us he waits for our filos he waits for our actions that's something that really requires a moon of faith in god faith in his ability that we all have faith that our actions and our words make a difference that requires real amuna may we be [Music]