The Heart of Our Tefillah

[Music] this series is part of a series on filler and i would like to focus on the heart about filler the heart of schmonastery are the middle brothers those 12 or 13 today brafas that are requests from akarishbaruhu and we ask for the things we want that's what the middle that's what it is and to us that's the point of filler we all have things we want we need we want to request borrow and that's what we do the question i guess that that really seems to bother us is why do we have a fixed formula for that which is the core of filler is an introduction 12 13 projects of requests and closing remarks thanks and and and an exit formula now we understand that the introductory remarks need to be [Music] formulated for us we don't know what are the appropriate terms to use adjacent conspiracy what appropriate uh ways of praising and so on and we would be helpless without hazel giving us some sense of it that we all understand same thing is true with the exit remarks it's part of a protocol but the requests we all know what we need it's not always the same it's different things that we need at different times and we really really are our laws to understand why we need an exact formulation which we have to repeat every single time exactly the way hazel gave it to us and so on that's a question that we need to understand so the series would be will be a message on each one of these brachas but this particular segment i would like to dedicate to this point of why do we need a very specific and exact formulation now the um the the point of davening itself is something that is not so clear to us on the one hand we um everyone takes it for granted that chef likes us he's kind to us he wants to help us give us so if we just prepare the list of what it is that we want that would be fantastic and this is a very simple sense of filler common but that's but it doesn't quite ring well on the other hand we have a sheet of descriptions for likes who speaks about only asking for things of that nature it sounds to us it is extraordinarily far from where we are obviously this is something that is only relevant to the highest and greatest in shamas but what but how do we exactly understand that um what is it i mean it's better to ask for it or is that only to fill uh what exactly is tiller that's really something that we need to define for ourselves before we can have any type of meaningful um discussion about each particular one so i would like to use a um a definition of formulation that the mapit rabbit was one of the dolumen swas and he was known for he was that kuffar that golden era in the 1500s with the besosim da rizal and all of those great people it's fast he was a um he wrote a save on the rambam which is quite famous and this safer is called basal kim it is a safer on shkoffa so to speak on fundamentals of ederskai and one section is called base filler which he devotes to philip and he gives a definition for philla a very carefully crafted definition and two of the words that he speaks about are things that he needs and i'm going to quote it's it has to be something that's nitzrach and anubishusso that is those are two of the words that he uses necessary and not possible to attain by his own actions so let's discuss this point because i think this will give us a very basic understanding of what it is we're doing a person is in this world for one reason only to achieve and accomplish what a kurdish borough who has given him to achieve and accomplish in the big picture of things it is a personals a person's own rochester accomplishments torah mitzvos etc that's the purpose of our existence in this world and the warning accumulating things getting nice things enjoying life if we're not referring to the mission we're really taking time off our mission so there is only one definition which actually describes what and that is to do and accomplish what we're supposed to accomplish primarily we're supposed to use our own um efforts to accomplish it akersboro who gave us um talents time ability energy and we're meant to use that for that purpose so that is up to us to do and therefore and we actually wouldn't be using thriller for that we would be using um our own effort that's what's supposed to do if a person's villain are in the room next door or the building next door or 10 blocks away what he's supposed to do is not sit and be misfollowed for the fill in to come his way he's supposed to get up and make the effort and take it that's what a vote is about it's work effort and accomplishment but if that would if that were the only um method of um accomplishing what kasparov said us to do that that's a system that would um it would basically uh make us more and more feel that it really is up to us with our karishbaruhu sort of added the picture yes who said it's this world gave us stuff but from this point onwards it's all us it would be counterproductive because so even in those areas where akareshbarghu set up um the system that we need to accomplish and do in an illuminati then many of the times or all the times we must partner with akaddish baruch um so immediately nearly melee i can't say well let hashem do it for me but i myself cannot do it so we have missions also accomplished each mission needs um many many different tools many different implements talents time and and and and many other things and therefore according means that in order to accomplish what we're supposed to accomplish we need academic particle so there are things so for instance that i put on twilight and it's filling are a black away or a mile away i need to expend the effort to get those fill in even if it's a bit hard on the other hand uh let's have a very poor person i can't afford to fill it i need to reach out to her and say please um make available to me the means to have that feeling and this is true by everything a person sits down to learn we need to have we need to sit and to learn we can't ask to have it fly into our heads but every person needs to recognize that sitting down and learning does not work unless the south ishmael and it certainly does not work to give us um the sense to give us the asukeshwa meaning to get it right to really understand the battle of murrah without a kurdish particle helping us so philip brings that out the bit to the words that he uses are sore and inaudible so let's take the second word the anub means filler should never substitute the things that i can do they're not a cop-out so let's take something and i have to build a sukkah i cannot and should not devin that akersboro who somehow get me someone to do it because the reason why i'm supposed to be sukkah is for me to use my hands my abilities and so on to make that circle on the other hand the word sore nitra is a very critical work there are there is much that i do not have available to me whether it's resources whether it's talents whether it's southern ishmael many things we seem to have everything needed just doesn't go but what does it mean i asked for my parochial to please get me a trip to france i'm i'm very i'd love to have a cruise to france please send the crews to france what i mean i i didn't send you for that it's nice that you want it not surprised but but what's what's the job why like why would she turn to me for that it's the same way that a person would not turn to another and ask for something frivolous so a person asking for stalker would feel um a bit down but you would have to tell somebody you know we really don't have khala for shabbos could you help me a person would feel okay you know i don't feel ashamed to ask for it but if i tell somebody you know i'm really feel like having a cruise to france um i'd like you to sponsor it i i think a person would be um should be deeply embarrassed they should be so embarrassed they couldn't ask for it so he asked about who things are gonna probably push this world for things but there is so much that i need in order to do what i'm supposed to do and i don't have it and even the things that i have without saying it doesn't work so hazal um formulated for us the needs the appropriate way to asking so for instance i don't ask for lots of money i ask for a bracha schmeyer and we'll go through these these these particular things so hazal described for us 12 items that are specific needs not desires and wants but needs and are unattainable without seattle ishmael and therefore we define these needs and then we also express it in a way that expresses um this point so for instance when we when we speak in afghanistan it doesn't need anything it's something doesn't mean it has to show them himself is not in need of anything and sarah's going to all these things to imagine the screen as as what it means is expressed that he wants certain things out of us that's been expressed it's in all of tyra those things that he wants out of us require our input and our kardash giving us the tools the means the the the opportunities and more than anything else that is the core of filler to it's it's it's an integral part of our voters hashem and it it's it's it's giving us what's needed to perform the verse of hashem wants so when we're dampening with turkish prophet saying shalom you sent me here placed me here for a purpose i want to do what you want me to do these are the items that i am missing and that i need you to to bestow upon me so that i do what it is that you want for me to do mr chairman we will go through the brachas um to those middle brothers and get a sense of what each breath is expressing in terms of needs [Music]