Prayer: Talking to G-d - Rabbi Shlomo Schiller

[Music] we will do today Fila prayers let's go a few places in the Torah with the idea is to show you already in the tour itself the power of prank and then let's explain you know why is the idea of praying so let's start guys and it's very interesting because it's in a very very beginning right for us how we find the idea of praying so if you open in chapter 2 verse 5 the color see Akasa day and all the trees all the the the trees the bushes right telomere ballots was not in the land yet was not growing in the land the coal Esav has today and all the grass tell him it's ma was not growing kilo him till a shame because Hashem didn't bring rain Allah Abbot's so this is talking in the end of creation right after talking what was created in every day right the the earth right and the shaman Bard's offering the heaven right was created then the the every day was created yeah the borders the sea and the dry land the animals right the difference right all trees all the species bushes grass but they were deer but they're not growing why do not grow because there's no rain God did not bring grain why did the God didn't bring grain why they were not calling the atom ein la da da da da Mouse no man to work the land so while she says you see over here was no rain and there was no man to rock the land now she explains here now she says like this since there's no man right before man was created when what day last day on Friday so before hand knows no one that recognized the need of rain only after man was created on Friday he understood that is a need for rain and what did he do pray for it ask for it so you see the stage is not enough first of all they don't have knowledge they don't understand that okay okay but only right the human the God created a role for human being not for the animals the animals are here for serving us not the other way around right okay so only after you see the order you see understand only after those men that understood that we need the right what did he do after we understand that we need the ring he prayed and he asked for it do you see the idea guys that only after when somebody needs something what does he have to do pray and ask fit that's the stages God is not going to send you you know bring down to you right send you with the FedEx a check or today they have the helicopters right that delivery right small helicopters you know what I'm talking about drones that come right and give you the box so that's not going to happen right you gotta ask how do you ask it pray man is there who recognized that he needs it he prays he has Shem says to Abraham right that the people of his dome have really bad people right look at verse said 20 let's see a minute verse 20 bye okay page 82 you okay everybody has it 82 verse 25 now Yamaha shames a cuts dome the screaming from stone right is great right to loud so to speak the hot item and the sins kick of damage the sins are becoming very very heavy you know the idea is that is a so to speak you know is how much weights of sin God could carry becomes a point that he can carry anymore so what does he do when they go over the line gotta punish the evil people right there's a limit how much God waits and wants the sinner to do Looch Eva but if that's not happening you gotta start to take care of them this is what happening what's done the sins are becoming too heavy or in that place so to speak they're storage this sins to hold on to them right to put it on the way it sits falling over right over floating right too heavy Donna let me right let me go down and check it out so okay so um here's this in verse 23 the Higashiyama so what's very gosh my gosh a bomb a van goes over now she brings down over here that we could find go over in different ways one is the war you're going over to war one is that you're trying to make somebody happy right that different ways that you could use the word very gosh and one vay gosh could mean he went to pray to ask for them and to pray for them right so Rashi over here says right that the different ways of a gosh and over here right Muhammad was going to ask for them trying to ask mercy for them for the people in Saddam and to pray for them okay another place guys who is the first son of Abraham know Ishmael right Ishmael was the first song from Hegar right from her god that's a person the second son is Yitzhak right that the Sun from saw the only child that Abram has right with Salah is Itzhak long story short surahs not happy that right her son Yitzhak is hanging around with Ishmael she says to him let's get rid of his of this boy let's send him away so right so they sent away hagalo right with her child right and they he send them away to the desert um right woke up in the morning bath she came of amber Boca early in the morning wake up let him he took bread mine water by 10 and Lagaan and he gave it to her girl so he gave her some food for the way yet Allah God sam'l chick muhib she he put it on a shoulder fayette al ed right and she went today and the child they shall huh and he sent her away and she went to the desert of bear Sheva verse 15 by a hollow a miami Nakumatt and the water in the pitcher was finished so she went and she put the child right between the bushes because she didn't want to see the child dying she's in the desert no food no drink no water so she says I can help this child so she put him in the bushes and she went away ok so she raised her voice so listen to this but they showed me negative at ISA kolevatov and she went and she cried what it says in verse 17 by Sh'ma a lucky man God listen to what the voice of the child by shmuel Hakeem : ah God heard their prey the cry of the child ok so that's another place that you see that somebody was in trouble right and so does he was praying and how she says over here he was actually not only crying he was praying let's jump guys chapter 24 verse 12 moving forward Eleazar is the servant of Abraham and comes a point that they're looking for for girl right to marry Yitzhak right so they're sending Eliezer to the other town to Quran which is the place right the place of birth of Abraham his family if I'm is sending a letter to look for a right girl for his dear son it's cooked right it's hot right he's a Leah's are travelling he has ten camels with him with a lot of gifts presents to give to the proper family to the proper girl but what does he what does he do Alireza how does he prepare himself for this mission what does he do to find the right goal for each hub what does he do so look at look at this verse 12 but your mouth this is Alireza Hashem Alok I please Hashem my god adonai abandon the the master of Abraham how can I live on i right help me that it should be hey young today that I say hesed and make an act of kindness in Madani ovum so he's praying tell shame and he says like this I'll come to the well to the spring towards the evening right and I'll come with camels and he says that and I'll ask from the girl a girl right to give me to drink and if she'll say here I'll go under water not only for you I'll draw also for their camels I'll give also to camels to drink that will be a sign that that's the right girl for Isaac so here you go Eliezer right what does he feel that he needs special help from Hashem before he's going to fulfill this mission what is he doing asking for shame please help me out and sent me a sign right that the girl that'll offer not only to me to myself right you'll offer also to my camels to drink she is the right person so what you see right he's praying okay verse chapter 25 verse Isaac married Africa right they found the proper girl if God that's actually the girl that Eliezer found from the family actually their relatives but they don't have children right Isaac and Isaac and Rebekah and right do not have children so verse 21 they get a car and Isaac was praying and begging you know that different languages of praying falada haneun right well yet i'll also sir earlier vayigash Abram came over that different words read which expresses the different levels of different ideas of Davin in prey so if I yet I'll eat suck it suck was praying right it's Arcos brainwash him right lonoa fleshed off for his wife kia kaha he that she was born chose not that she didn't have children but yet our law Hashem Hashem answered his prayer but Taha Lascar and with car became pregnant okay so you see that it's happen with God do not have children before what before Isaac makes this special prayer only after that it's got Mathias special prayer then you see rifka becomes pregnant let's go on another I'll tell you now outside another two places Jacob right later on right Isaac has a son Jacob right he will be the son of Jacob will be the son of it's okay rifka right because in today today today war right he has some intention with his own brother his name is ASA right he had to run away from a sub right so without to go into too much details the whole story the fight between Yaakov and ASA comes a point that ASA wants it kill him he runs away he spends 20 years right by the family in Quran right and then eventually after 20 years Yaakov is coming back he's sending messengers to see his ace of still willing to kill me enough and he finds out that yes he is so what is the preparation that Yaakov is doing so right so how she brings down over there that Yaakov prepared himself in three ways war to fight peace to make peace to offer ace of peace and was the third ring prayer those are the three things right that Yaakov was preparing himself he's going to meet a so he's not sure how this will end up will be a happy end also prepares in something three ways praying to God willing to fight the war preparation strategy how to handle the war and peace okay so that's another place okay let's jump now guys the Jewish people right this is all this one I mentioned to you is in a book of Bereshit let's move on the Jewish people eventually make it to Egypt the children of Jacob make it to Egypt are they having a good time or a bad time they're bad time what's so bad over there slavery they're taking away the children right they'll Killeen throwing the boys to their Nile right at one point they're foreign all babies right miserable miserable slavery comes a point right that what the king of Farah dies and the Jewish people are praying to God okay so let me read to you the verse right that they're praying to God and a shims listens right and he hears it so it says that the King died okay and they were screaming out to Hashem and Hashem listen to the verse 23 by he buy me Mugabe ma'am in those days by a madman like meat I'm the king of Egypt died by an Huebner cell and the Jewish people walk was suffering right Minna avada from the labor from the hard work that there was in Egypt by Giza coup and those screaming out right back Todd shava Tom and the skewing the prayer went up - Amy Nevada right verse 24 vanish my looking right and ashame heard at Nakatomi he heard the suffering and that reminded him by his ko'olau kima tweto he remembered the covenant that he had with Abraham Isaac and Jacob so the Jewish people were screaming right and Hashem listen this is the first steps that now Hashem says okay let my people go that's starting the process but how did it stop when the Jewish people came to a point that they couldn't handle it anymore they realized that's it we can't handle it anymore so what they do when they can't handle it anymore they scream out right they pray - a man - em listens okay okay as well right this is in a book but I just go put over to you guys a few examples but on and on you can see the idea of praying one of the famous places also we have in the not in the Torah but we have in a navy in are you all familiar with the Prophet Sam well we mentioned him we mentioned him earlier right refusing to receive gifts from others so right his mother who's his mother his mother is a woman named Anna right Anna did not have children for many many years was actually a men that was married to to wife's - - right it was permissible back in the day that a man could have two wife's and one wife was named Nina and she had lots of children and Anna poor the second wife did not have children how does she feel guys how does she feel her Manion she's married and one has lots of children and one doesn't have children will be the feeling of Hana terrible right cuz could you imagine how she feels look at her dear friend having so many children and she's right doesn't have children so they bothered her very much and it says that she traveled this is in the time of the turban aqil of the Mishkan so she goes up to pray in the tabernacle and she's moving only her lips and no sound what is she doing praying a li one of the sons right one of the the people that were serving in the tabernacle for that she's drunk because she's moving ellipse and all signed by happens to be that she'll sprain however long story short she promised that Hashem that if Hashem Oh bless her with a child she'll divorce you'll dedicate this child that he will be serving in the temple and Hashem Enza her request right and Hana right was blessed with a child and that child was the prophet Samuel okay so now by the way you know how should we dive in xuan sa loud or quietly what's the proper way quietly Vanessa says that you shouldn't dive in too loud right because you're disturbing others that's one concern or that it looks like that you're saying that a shame can hear you so it says she wanna say it doesn't quietly we did we find this idea of diving quietly by Hana what did I told you the lips are moving right we saw the mouth the lips but we didn't hear sound that's the sir skies for shman sa for diving quietly right from Hana okay so these are again so this is another place that canal was begging for child and I shan't finally answer the request okay so these are the places now should you see the prayers right you see that that times that they work and it's very very important but let me ask you why why do we need the prayers can God give us it without praying why do you need the prayers so we can't mention here the list of all kind of places that we see that actually works and it's very important but why why we need it so the explanation is the following guys and this is a fundamental idea first of all we're using the power of speech what is the power of speech it said in the beginning of creation that when man was created right so he was a living creature Rahila nephesh yeah he was a living creature you know what the translation that targum says that man was able to speech what's unique about man that he has the power of speech so in prayer we're actually using their idea of speech talking fashion so that's one point but more than that god guys the idea is right one God just doesn't give to us everything without asking right the answer is is about the relationship God wants the relationship with us he wants that constantly we should feel that we need him we are dependent on him we need him for every stage and point in life right every stage and point in life guys right your God willing one day besought ashame you'll be about today right so you need help right to find the right curl right the right girl the right family you're looking one day for job guys right you want to have the proper boss you want to have the proper office the proper environment the proper people right and you're constantly every stage in life right you'll need God and it's the idea about the relationship that's idea then God because He loves the Jewish people he wants us to feel that we need him the whole time and it's about the relationship when you guys when you have bezu Fache am your own children right so there are two ways you can give to your son let's say your son is traveling going to a different city different place you could give him you know five hundred dollars and say okay let's talk in a half a year well that's okay but not a great relationship the nicer way will will be you'll give him a hundred dollars maybe and tell him phone me when you need more because you want to talk to him you want to hear how is he doing right is he things are going well for him or he needs help advice so it's the idea about the relationship with the Jewish people right I know as as especially the Jewish people I should say but also for the whole God cares for the creatures that he created so therefore it's about the relationship and we constantly realize and understand that we need a God and we're dependent on him and therefore we'll pray to Him now is it guaranteed that whatever we ask we get no and that's by the way also the idea when you praying to God like I mentioned to you guys you'll go dating you'll look for a job that times in life that you think that this is the good thing for you but you don't know the whole you don't have the whole picture gods know that just this is this is not the right girl for you God knows that that's not the good job for you the only room that really knows the whole picture is God so that's the idea also of the benefit that we have and we have the privilege guys the idea is guys we should look at the idea that we have the opportunity it's a special gift that we have the time and we can speak directly to God it shouldn't be like a burden oh man I got a davon the Talmud the Mishnah and Bahat says how o set feel at Oh whoever does his prayer kuva whoever does his prayers like something fix and feel at Otakon unum his prayers is not mercy the whole idea is that God is waiting to hear what you have in their heart right that you're asking it from your heart not as a burden you know like carrying a fridge you're moving are you happy to move the fridge no why are you doing it you have to do it right so you certain things in life you do because we have to do it prayers shouldn't be like that parents should be like a special gift right that you are have the opportunity to speak to Hashem and asking him for all your needs right all all what you need that's why I says that all the mate reacts they didn't have children in the beginning right Sahra didn't have till the age of 90 rifka right we just so before right she didn't have children and now also I mentioned to you before also what is the idea says that God has a special desire for prayers of that Siddiqui now you understand that makes sense because he it's about the love the relationship he's he won't he's waiting for the prayers and then he will give it to him okay so that's the idea that it should be like that every every prayer that you should come by the way also is the attitude what's the big deal I'd happened yesterday Schokolade right I dive in yesterday min hi davon yesterday right I did it already every day is she looking at at a separate day as a new unit as something new that that you dive in yesterday has nothing to do with the needs and your life of today just like you eat breakfast today why you don't wake up in the morning says well I practice yes there are not enough tea today so the same thing exactly just like physically every day is separate every day is new also spiritually should look every day is new every day should come with a refreshment is a new prayer a new talked a sham that I have to that I I'm praying to him let me just end up with this guy's years ago in Israel was a soldier that was captured by by Hamas by by the Arabs and the holding on to him in in one of the Arab villages right not too far away from you shall I'm this name of this soldier was not Xiang Waxman this I'm talking is approximately 22 years ago he was captured and he was held by the Hamas in this house right obviously the they didn't tell us where they are holding him but their army right got information and they got the information where he's been held so everybody was praying for him this was going on for a few days everybody was praying for him right and they didn't want to release it was a lot of tension going on so they did a big prayer at the Kotel a but he was praying for him and in the schools and they she vote everybody is praying for him it happened to be that the Israelis the army broke in and they shoot him and he died this soldier holy soldier knocks and marksman so afterwards the father of the soldier was interviewed and they asked him how it could be that so many people were praying to him and this is the end so he said a very powerful statement he says a father sometimes could say no he said I truly believe that God is running the world he's the father he kills first but we don't have the full picture my father could sometimes say no ok now another one story so was a guide that things are a bit tight for him you know paying the bills right he has a large family so he goes to the cotton right and he's praying and praying and crying right and somebody comes over and very touched he see a man crying really crying says what's your story could I help you he says yes I'm very tight at the top right long story short he writes him a nice check and gives it him this man goes back to this study placed in a colon and he tells his friends look what happened to me right I was desperate didn't have money I went to the Kotel to the top right and here we go I have to check in the end so his friend here's the idea so his friend the next day right the friend is going to the Kotel and praying and praying and praying and praying and guess what nothing is happening so he comes back to the : right three Shiva and he's disappointed he says the rabbi how come my friend yesterday went to the Kotel and you know came back with a cheque and me I'll come back with empty hands so what did I rob I say your friend prayed to God you prayed for money that's the difference the first one had pure intention asking help from a Shem right he didn't ask for specific this guy he should give me touching give me right he was praying to God from is hot the second one wasn't so pure he was praying for the money have a wonderful day [Music] [Applause]