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Prayer: The More You Know, the More You'll Enjoy - Rabbi Yaakov Altman
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okay so we're speaking today about a
super important topic which is
objectives of prayer
prayer what do you accomplish when you
pray what are you doing
and the example we always like to give
is if someone gives you a very boring
job which is
um let me here's here's a table a bunch
of wooden blocks turn the blocks over
again and again and again
right then uh and and just keep on doing
it right how much you're gonna pay you
thousand dollars an hour so if
you know you're making a thousand
dollars an hour you work eight hours
yeah that's eight thousand dollars in a
day that's very
good you wouldn't be upset right let's
say there's another person doing the
same job but she doesn't know she's
doing that job
he has no idea he should they don't know
that they're getting paid a thousand
dollars an hour
so what would you do like oh it's
torture so when you dive and you don't
know what you're doing
it's totally boring it's totally
frustrating you're like what am i doing
like every day
yeah but if you dive in a way that's
really you know like oh chris brawlhall
like what am i accomplishing when i dive
in it's completely different planet
everything's totally different so that's
what we're going to speak about today
the objectives of dominating what do you
accomplish when you pray so the first
thing you accomplish is the mitzvah of a
moon
it's a mitsubishi derisi it's one of the
613 myths
it's the most fundamental mitzvah of
imunna to believe in hashem
now it's not just believing hashem it's
it's being aware that hashem is here
it's being aware that hashem is here so
if two people are sitting in a room with
you you'd have 100 awareness that you're
with someone you was like well
i kind of know that they're there you
know because you see them because you
see that they're there
they're real you can relate to them you
feel their presence
that's what a muna is and moon is i feel
the presence of hashem
now davening is an a chance to build
that feeling
and to express that feeling
oh hashem i i i i'm talking to you you
don't talk to somebody like
you don't talk to someone it's not there
you know even in the camera and people
record like you know
even if you have a zoom shear or
whatever the case might be right you
know zoom share and
you usually see a name on the screen you
know like if there's only one
participant in the
zoom share and you're not recording
you're not going to have a conversation
you're not going to do it has to be
somebody there even if i can't see them
i can't hear them but i know that
they're there
so when you talk to course warhol in
fila even though you can't see him and
you can't hear him
you know the camera says there cody
sparkle right in the bottom of the zoom
shirt and it's right there you know
you know it's real okay so every time
you do that you're making it you're more
of a feeling in your own heart and a
feeling and who you are that a curse
brought was real so
thila is a is a vehicle it's a means of
building your muna and doing the mitzvah
muna that's objective number one
building your muna and and uh
and expressing your moon and doing the
mids of the moon that's number one
number two is very similar uh there's a
mythical bitahon which is trust in
hashem
it's immediate of trust in hashem now
what does trust me trust means a little
kid puts his hand up and he goes with
mommy
mommy's carrying me i'm going with mommy
you don't say mom do you have a
do you have you know you have ways do
you know where you're going you have
directions like you have money
you have your credit cards is there gas
in the car like
mommy goes takes me some place i just go
with mine put my hand up like a little
kid and i go mommy's taking me and
that's it
i don't think that's that's me talking a
little kid falls asleep in the back seat
of his mommy in the abba's car
he doesn't think like mom you guys know
how to drive watch that guy in the left
i think he's coming over like
you fall asleep in the backseat you look
out the window like that's trust it's a
feeling of hashem you're taking care of
me
now when you pray to a kurdish borho
what you're saying is it is an
expression
just like just like a muna it's building
bitahon
building trust in hashem and it's
expressing trust in hashem now why is it
building and expressing trust in hashem
so
let's say you have um you live in a
neighborhood right and you have two
people in your neighborhood that are
billionaires and you really want a car
so you go up to the guy you say hi i
know it's a little weird it's only you
know eight o'clock at night now we
didn't have an appointment or anything
but um
can you buy me a mercedes please
it's so awkward like buy your mercedes
who are you why why are you asking me
right so totally random it'd certainly
be even more random
if the next day in the morning you're
knocking this door again
hi can you buy me a mercedes uh no and
then you come in the afternoon
hi can you buy me a mercedes like and
then at nighttime like it doesn't get
more awkward than that
if i'm asking this guy for mercedes it
means i think that there's some kind of
relationship here already
and i trust that there's a good
possibility he's going to get it for me
not just that i'm going to wear him down
to this weirdo called altman is going to
leave him alone and stop knocking on his
door
like it's going to be a little like it
has to be that we have a relationship so
when i ask hashem
three times a day for anything at all
and i speak to hashem
can i have wisdom hashem can i have
forgiveness hashem can i have heal
health can i have you know clarity all
kinds of things you ask for him cool
love you sure all the things you're
asking
you're expecting that it's normal to ask
him that i trust hashem you get
good possibility you're going to answer
me so when you ask him
it's because there's a pre-existing
relationship and you're building that
feeling of be talking
of of trust i shall i trust you you're
going to take care of me just like a
little kid goes out with his mommy
and goes out with his daddy and he's
going to be okay and mom and dad are
going to take care of me same idea same
exact idea
so tefillah is a vehicle for bitahon
it's a means of trust of building
bitakhon building trust in hashem
and also expressing that trust in hashem
if i wasn't if i didn't trust him hashem
that
is going to take care of me i would
never ask him hashem please can you give
me a mercedes please
give me pardon also obviously because
it'll be totally weird good
wonderful next the next objective of
tefila this is really interesting very
very simple straightforward actually is
there's a mitzvah to pray
there's a mitzvah to pray why am i
praying because i have to pray because
it's a mitzvah to pray every single day
yeah
now it's it's actually a malocus the
rambam says
the purpose of prayer is uh the rama
says
says and to serve him with your whole
heart the rambam learns that that's a
mix for the race so it's a mitzvah to
raise up for people to pray once a day
once a day to say hashem in the in the
form of praise
request and thanks hashem you're the
best please can i have a lamborghini
thank you very much
according to the round bomb you
fulfilled your mitts with the raza of
praying every single day that way nice
and straightforward very simple
but according to uh the way we possibly
can that's not a
it's we don't possibly like the wrong
bomb it's not a midfield the rights to
pray every every day but it isn't meant
for the reborn to pray every day
so when you're praying you're doing the
mitzvah there are a button of prayer
you're doing a mistake keep in mind like
oh i have a mistake for the prayer it's
not just well
you know no it's immense you have to
pray okay so what am i praying for
because i have a mitzvah do i make
kitties on friday night yes it's a
mitzvah i make abdullah multi shabbos
yes
you know it's a mitzvah i do memphis
right i don't touch mooks on shabbos you
know move moksa
that's yeah mitzvah that's what i do i'm
doing mitzvahs fantastic so i'm doing
the mitsubishi it's very obvious has to
be mentioned
very obvious right okay now here's
what's super interesting number four
number four is
there's a mitzvah with the rise of via
hafta hamoha loving your fellow
jew like yourself we have to recommend
people ask why i have to love my jew
like myself why can't i love everybody
like myself so
we are supposed to be a light to the
nation supposed to be a a shining light
to the nations of the world well the
light is
is flickering the light has problems
right now not a lot a lot of
a lot of jewish people right now don't
know much about terry don't know much
about hashem though i'm not so connected
to uh
to to what hashem wants us to be doing
in the world so first we have to work on
ourselves make ourselves a complete
light
a light should shine properly that's by
taking care of client soil then we can
start the jewish people then we can
start shining to the rest of the world
okay fine now
means love your fellow jew like yourself
means benefit them do something good for
them
make them feel good now what does that
mean make them feel good
so if you pray for someone you are
helping them
you're benefiting them you're doing
something good for them every single
prayer
every single prayer is effective there's
not a single prayer
in the universe anywhere anytime it
doesn't help in some positive way
every single prayer is effective
now if that's the case when you pray for
your friend
you're helping her you're helping him if
you're helping her you're helping him
you're doing the misfit the right so of
the ahafta laurel
love your fellow jew like yourself
that's amazing now
that's why is that so amazing so listen
to this
if you pray shimona esre the amida
there's eight there's 19 brochures in
the media the first three are praised
the last three are thanks yeah but the
middle 16
no the middle 13 that's one of my height
but the middle 13 brachas are requests
there are 13 broncos of requests so now
you're about to dive in minha let's say
you're going to maintain you say you
know what hashem
all the requests that i make i'm going
to have my roommate in mind
or my friend my sister my brother my
father my mother
whatever one of my friends my room any
pick anybody you want pick one person
and think
um every single request i make is gonna
be for that person
now every time you make a request in
schwann esri
and you're doing it for that person
you're fulfilling the mitzvah of
via love your fellow jew like yourself
now why is that a big deal well if there
are 13 requests
in one minha and you have your friend in
mind that's
13 fulfillments derisa up from the torah
of yahweh so now you've taken the
mitsvadura button of
minha and turned it into a mitzvah 13
minutes is the racer
because you pray for one person that's
amazing
if you pray twice a day that's 26 to
racist just for praying for
just your one friend that's awesome by
the way it's more than that because you
it's
each one of these requests brachas is
not just one request it's more than one
you say
you're asking for three right there even
though it's one bracha
yeah slack lonno carpenter yes bunch of
things
you're asking a bunch of things one one
after the other you're asking for one
thing at a time
so if you have her in mind it's more
than 13 devices for every single smaller
x-ray
now if you have two people in mind it's
26 or it's more
wow yeah so the shimano s-ray
is a is a excuse me saying this way is a
is a mitzvah derisa factory if you have
one or two people
or three or four people in mind you're
gonna get tons of mitzvahs derisa from
wanderer button
shmon esri it's amazing
now among other things one of the
reasons why i think this is so powerful
is because sometimes people have a
harder time connecting to prayer
but they connect to khasit they care
about all the people they really love
people
and it's hashem i can't see you it's
hard for me like it's hard for me to
talk every single day the same words
maybe i don't feel so motivated it's
hard sometimes i feel motivated times i
don't feel motivated
but if i turn but you can turn shimon
ashrae into an act of
chesed if you pray for other people
that's really what it is
it's amazing so that's a totally
different flavor in small ass right now
okay now
what if it goes a little further am i
able to dive in for every jew on the
planet
well the truth is we do do that right
riffa anu
heal us that's every jew who's us it
means every jew on the planet you buy
yourself you damage my ass right
refine who's us like who's here black
background what's going on here nothing
yeah like
no it doesn't mean a lot of people yeah
it means every jew on the planet
so you really are praying for everyone
but here's the thing
you can't do the mitzvah the hamocha
i love him like myself if i don't know
who he is so there are jews in japan
and there are jews in france and england
and there are jews in south america and
there are jews in new york and
california all over the place right
canada right australia they're jews
everywhere
but i don't know them particularly so i
can't do the mitts of loving them like
myself
even though i'm benefiting them so the
mitsubishi
mocha only works for people that you
know or you at least know their name
you know there's a specific person so
even though i do pray for everyone
it doesn't work if you after it doesn't
work if i pray for someone i don't even
know who they are i don't even know the
name i have to know someone specific
okay but there's another mitzvah called
you shall walk in his ways
you shall walk in his ways you shall
walk in his ways
now that mitzvah is just like hashem is
kind you be kind
just like hashem is forgiving you be
forgiving just like hashem is merciful
you'll be merciful that mitzvah is a
completely different planet
you don't have to love them to benefit
them
you don't even have to know who they are
to benefit them
you just have to benefit them so for
example
if you go into uh into a bathroom
someplace and there's no tissues and you
drop a big
pack of tissues in there big fat packet
tissues right and the next you know
couple of days ten different people
benefit from those tissues
you don't know who they are but every
person that you benefited from those
tissues
you're doing the midfield eraser of the
halaq the bedrock we shall walk in his
ways
you're benefiting them it's not about
loving them it's about benefiting them
which you did
now think take this this month that's
right so you say hashem
i'm diving exponents right now with my
friend in mind my other friend my sister
my brother
my my husband my wife my parents
whatever you want yeah
my neighbors you know my my my friends
in class my friends in my bunking camp
my my my my co-workers in in in work
whatever you want yeah the people who
might call all the people like oh yeah
my car bruce is
everything yeah whoever individual
people every individual person is
fantastic and now you say three words
basheem
cole israel in this in the name of the
entire jewish people
i am dividing now not just for those
people but also for every jew on the
planet
oh ho now what's happening
now you're benefiting let's say there's
20 million jews in the world no one
knows how many jews are in the world
let's say 20 million years in the world
yeah you're benefiting every year
because you're praying for them because
every single prayer is effective
yeah so now you're saying hashem we
should all have reform we should all
feel better
we should all have um health we should
all have blessing
we should also have all of clarity but
i'm for every jew on the planet
okay how does that work now so hashem
says either that's one mitzvah that
includes 20 million people
or 20 million mitzvahs which is amazing
so let's say it's one minute to include
20 million people so here's the example
i always give you guys right this is
amazing
imagine hashem has a map of the world
it's a dark map and every time a person
does a mitzvah is a little blip of light
blip flip flip flip all these blips all
over the place people doing mitzvahs all
the plays fantastic right
so a lot of blips around you shalom a
lot of you in there around bernay brock
right
neighborhood yeah all these other places
uh and you have people doing misses
around new york and london
wherever wherever jews are all over the
world if they do a small mitzva it's a
little blip if they do a mitzvah that's
big it's a bigger
bigger blip right mysterious netfish
with energy with kavanagh with love and
fear
it's more of a blip a bigger blip a
bigger light what happens what does this
mitzvah look like
if you do a mitzvah hashem
forgive us i'm including every jew on
the
in the entire planet 20 million juice
what do you think that makes it look
like on hashem's chart
you know blinding light it's like the
sun coming out yeah
and that's every request it's amazing
so it's not like ah
yeah it's not like that yeah it's
because you're you're on like wow
i'm doing a nuclear mix for here now the
thing is like this yatar is like look
rabbit opens trying to motivate you you
know
it's a video it's a class like he's
trying to be like no this is not rabbi
altman's terrorist i'm not making this
up
it's a mess with the race of a locked
rock of walking on sham's ways what
it's this is mainstream judaism
yeah and you can have that also if you
think about that there's more astray but
you have to think about it
you think you can even say hashem all
smaller asteroids that i dive in today
is for the whole jewish people you don't
even have to say because the truth is
just saying means the whole jewish
people they just you don't realize what
you're doing
you're like that person who's turning
over little blocks of wood on the table
getting paid more than a thousand
dollars an hour but you don't know what
you're doing ah this is so boring
yeah but now you know what you're doing
it's different that it has energy to it
and the atari is going to try to make
you forget about this because that's his
job
go back to sleep don't think about the
mitzvahs don't think about what you're
accomplishing don't think about what's
important to you don't think about what
was important to hashem just go back to
sleep and live life on autopilot then
you'll be nice and bored
and and you'll do things on a low level
hey don't let it i'm not listening to
you yeah i'm going to
i'm going to stay awake i'm going to
think about it chris brownhall think
about the memphis think about a moon
think about the
home think about the reg think about
it's amazing okay and that's only number
four
okay good by the way when it comes to
your kids it's also a big deal because
sometimes you have a child who's like
you know you know they have to dive in
every day they become a bar mitzvah boy
they become a boss mitzvah
and she really does need to dive in but
she doesn't feel like it say listen but
you're doing a big kindness to your
friends pray for them
i'll go oh okay so maybe that speaks to
them the tested side speaks to them a
different way
good let's go a little further there's
another concept here which is very
interesting
about davening that you accomplish um
that hakuras broken wants us to connect
to him he wants to hear our voice
there's a positive that we say in shira
shirim
hashmi ini escolek
let me hear your voice hashem says
because your voice is sweet to me
now this is interesting this is a topic
by itself but
it is necessary for every jew to talk to
hashem on a regular basis
it's it's necessary for the yid for the
for the jew himself every all of us we
benefit by talking to hashem
hashem i hate to say this way such a
such a a crass way of saying it
hashem is the most important fact of the
universe of life
to not be aware of the kurdish border
not to connect him is to miss the
fundamental purpose of life which is to
hashem made the world for us to
ultimately connect him in the best way
so to not be aware of him while we're
alive is
is a horrible mistake
now one of the most direct ways to
relate to hashem to
feel that he's there is to cry out to
him hashem says hashmini escalate i want
to hear that voice
i want to hear that voice there's a very
very famous madrish where
that talks about the jewish people
leaving mitzrayim leaving egypt
before we left egypt we were crying
hashem save us these missions are
killing us it's horrible we pray and we
prayed and he prayed and the puzzle says
uh the kaleidoscope went out beyond rama
with an upraised hand which could mean
that we had the upper hand but it could
also mean
the question safer says this the upper
hand means that we with our hands raised
in prayer
what took us out of mitzrayim was our
prayer to hashem hashem says beautifully
crying out to me i'm going to
my child i'm going to take you out of
mitzrayim fantastic when we left we
cooled off a little bit
hashem says what happened now of course
we prayed intense and we thanked hashem
for sure
but we cooled off a little bit you know
when you have a very big need for
something then you get that thing that
you need so badly you tend to cool off a
little bit
so hashem says wait a second hashmi i
want to hear your voice
and then hashem sent paro after us
running after us last week's partial
bashala
and we're like oh he's coming after us
oh that's what i wanted i want to hear
your voice
it sounds like you know like so if you
pray in an intense way
if you pray on a regular basis you're
making your you're making you're doing
two things
one is hashem wants to hear a voice here
hashem you wanna hear my voice here it
is
i'm calling up i know you like to hear
from me i'm talking to you respond
that's right that's what we're doing
so the next objective is you wanna hear
my voice hashem here it is i'm talking
to you
and how do you relate to that well you
know barker said we had a little girl
last week
uh a week and a half ago leonhara really
cute yeah a little i don't know if you
guys know that or not whatever anyway
uh her name is uh her name is shayna
rifka shayna rifka yeah
anyway cute little baby parker sham
she's healthy everyone's fine
right so um when she makes like this
little noise
and she interacts with you she's a
little bit young to interact because
she's a little bit in
you know in the in the dream world a
little bit takes a few weeks before they
get back to you know get into reality a
little more but anyway
when she makes this little sound like
hey look she made that cute little sound
you try to do something to make her make
the sound again because it's such a
pleasure for you
that she's interacting with you that way
babies are so fun they're so delicious
they're so like
leonardo so like they give you nachas so
hashem i want to give you nachas you
want to hear my voice
here it is i'm dabbing so you can hear
my voice you have nachas
it doesn't matter what we say that's
kind of like an inside joke you know
people have inside jokes with
the purpose of the conversation is not
to relate information
it's to show that we're close so we'll
call up again again every time we
talk to that person like make the same
inside joke not because it's new it's
because oh now i know
that we're close i'm showing how close
we are only we have this inside joke
this special cacher
you call hashem doesn't matter as much
as you say just talk to him talk to him
tell them like how important it is
hashem the cash was important yeah
number one the second thing is
there's a certain another way to do this
is to look at that i can avoid i can
prevent a lot of difficulties the
difficulties are supposed to happen i'll
say that again yeah
one of the objectives of prayer is to
prevent
difficulties that are supposed to happen
hakuna sparkle wants to test us
and give other reasons why class of
shaman difficulty may happen to a person
it could be a kapara it could be all
kinds of things in atonement all kinds
of reasons why that happens
but there's a significant percentage of
the difficulties that a person's
supposed to have
in the course of the year a significant
percentage of difficulties that we can
prevent
just because we pray ahead of time
hashem protect us from difficulties
protect us from attacks from sickness
from problems with the government
problems with neighbors problems with
health hospital all kinds of things
um from mental issues and psychological
issues prevent us from
um bureaucratic issues who knows how
much time you spend in the dmv and other
places like that all
over the place trying to get i'm trying
to get that paper i couldn't get the
paper they lost my paper
yeah um one of my kids needed to get
their social security
and their passport so they got
themselves the passport social security
number but the social care number they
never gave it to us we got it in the
embassy in tel aviv then they moved the
embassy to jerusalem
and the msu line the american empire
says like sorry you know we don't know
anything about it that was the old
embassy and the old embassy can't do
anymore so she had to start all over to
get the the papers that she needs
it's a bureaucratic pain not the worst
thing but it's a little bit of a hassle
yeah so i shouldn't protect me from that
stuff
so hashem says oh you're praying to be
protected from difficulty
i'm going to take off 20 30 40 of the
difficulty you're supposed to have this
year
instead of that horrible car accident
instead of just a little fender bender
or nothing happens
instead of losing that money you're
supposed to lose you didn't lose it
yeah instead you lost you know your ice
cream fell on the ground
that's it you know your two dollar five
dollar ice cream squad nothing yeah
so another objective of prayer is to
prevent difficulties
now we should not get the feeling that
hashem is standing over us trying to
give us difficulty he's definitely not
trying to do that
the difficulties that we have khalilah
could be a test
test of our munda or a test of how we're
going to act
act in the right way and do the right
thing even though it's difficult or it
could be it's a kipper it's an atonement
but whatever it is you can accomplish
that through prayer
instead of through the pain and
difficulty of having the difficulty
itself
hashem says oh i'd much rather you have
it through prayer much rather so that's
a completely different perspective
a different job in prayer this makes
sense
yeah okay great okay another objective
of prayer there's so many here
this is very interesting uh the mishnah
says in perique elbows al shlosh divarum
the world stands on three things al
shlosh's
omad on three things the world stands
now i believe we spoke about this in the
past
when the world stands on three things
that means hashem says if there are
people involved in these three things
then the world's going to continue
if at any point you're going to have
something that there's no one doing any
of these three things
the whole world goes back to nothing you
need to have all three
so what are they allah torah avoid
there's three things that keeps the
world going tori wrote learning torah
a voda which is service of hashem
serving hashem
which simply speaking means a
combination of
prayer and carbonos that's a voda a vote
the service of
his prayer and carbonaros and the
sacrifices in the temple
and the last one is it
so the world endures we still have a
universe because there are people around
tyra
there are people doing a voda which is
carbonos
and fila we don't have carbons i'm going
to mention that in a minute
and people don't test it if at any point
you don't have all three
the the whole world puffs out of
existence not a small thing you need to
have torah
avoida and gumilus has
now do we have people learning tara or
hashem yeah we have people doing
hashem what about a voda a vote that is
not a regular column like this it's only
half a column
we don't have carbonaros we only have
tfila prayer
so if every two on the planet praise
intensely
all we have is fifty percent it's like
out there you're out there in a
situation where like
there's a horrible snowstorm and there's
ice on the ground and you're driving
your car and you have three great tires
that are snow tires
and gripping the road and fantastic
there's strong winds right
and you're in the back seat with your
new baby
or your wife and your child are in the
back seat
yeah and you're driving you're driving
on the way to the bris
you're and the third was where's the
fourth tire the fourth tire is an
emergency donut tire not the wide one
like this but a narrow one like that
it says do not exceed 35 miles an hour
so you're hoping at that
point that that tire is giving it's all
to save you and your family
that tire is a hundred percent of its
fifty percent
that's what fella is prayer is every
single time you think that's those three
steps forward with response i think to
yourself
oh we need every person every person out
there dobbing as well as they can to
make sure that we have that maximum 50
keeping up the world because this column
of
the world that keeps the world up this
amud this column is only maximum fifty
percent
so i'm gonna do everything i can when i
pray for a small sway because i'm
holding up the universe when i do this
which is no small thing this is one of
the things that was me tremendously
it was giving me tremendous motivation
wow here i am someplace david who knows
like who needs me oh no no
hashem needs every person all hands on
deck everyone involved doing this to
keep the world going
good so that's another idea to keep the
world going another idea maybe at the
bottom of the list which is very
important
is to know that prayer
gives you things that you need in this
world
to get what you want now everyone knows
that of course you want something pray
for it everyone knows that
but well does everyone really know that
so prayer is described by the gemara as
hayesha means life
the temporal life life in this world
there is nothing that we see in the
physical world
nothing at all nothing at all that we
see in the physical world anywhere
that doesn't come as a result of a
prayer you see a hospital somebody
prayed in some form for that you see
blades of grass
someone prayed for that in some form
every single thing that you see
is in some form the result of a prayer
in some way
a person should never think oh yeah it
happened automatically no no
either you prayed for it your friends
your family avraham avinu adam harishon
but someone along the line prayed for
that thing otherwise you wouldn't see it
it's a very important idea now so if you
want anything at all you got to pray for
it
now you could rely on other people to
pray for the things that you want but
that's kind of a shame because maybe
they won't pray for it maybe you won't
get it
so every single thing that you need from
say hashem please i need parnosa i need
health
i need clarity i need uh i need rabbi
all but not to make too many jokes in
the in the class
whatever the case may be right same joke
again and again yeah whatever you pray
for pray but pray for it that's another
idea
now the next objective of prayer
and this is super interesting uh
there uh berkowitz tells us that prayer
is a chance
to express our concerns for all of
humanity
to make us more sensitive to the needs
of others
this is a totally different flavor of
prayer
since we're praying for other people not
just ourselves well other people need
healing
other people need parnosa other people
need clarity
other people need redemption
yerushalayim the base of mig-dish
other people not just me so when you
pray
in general you're thinking well you know
there's a person going every day to the
hospital to visit that person who's sick
wow hashem heal them heal the person
help the other person who's going to
visit
and give them partners to give them
everything they need you think it gets
you out of your own head
it's stretching your rakhami muscles
your mercy muscles your kindness muscles
it's a completely different flavor of
prayer it gets me think what does
what other people need it's it's another
way of doing fasted for other people
incredible now what's interesting is
what about if you pray for yourself
does that include cressid is that is
that a an act of kindness or not does
that is that also true
that you pray for yourself that's called
that's called stretching my mercy my
mercy muscles
so the answer is yes there's a halachic
status
that you are your own
closest relative what do you mean i'm me
i'm not my own closest relative like i'm
not related to myself i am myself what
do you mean
so the answer is that halachically
speaking you're not a hundred percent
yourself
that sounds weird what do you mean in
other words hashem gave us a body to
take care of
he wants us to take care of our own
bodies make sure
she gets enough sleep make sure he eats
enough that's you
yeah the body that loyally carries you
around your whole life that's not you
that's that you're you're in a shot
you're in no shame you're not your body
make sure you take care of it it gets
good night's sleep
it's healthy has the proper clothing
it's warm what needs to be warm it's
cool it needs to be cool everything
shoes shoelaces you take care of its
teeth give it everything you need so
when you pray for yourself you're doing
that you're stretching your rakhami
muscles you're giving it what it needs
so praying for yourself is also an
example of stretching your rachelian
muscles
so these let's do a quick review what do
we we speak about what's the
what are you accomplishing when you pray
the first thing you accomplish when you
pray is you're doing the mitzvah of the
munna
you're expressing your belief in hashem
and you're building your
belief in hashem you're also doing the
same to be taken trust in hashem
you're showing your trust in hashem the
fact that i ask you every day means that
we have a relationship you can give it
to me right and i'm i'm
doing the mitsubitakon the third one is
it's a mitzvah pray
hashem here i am praying the fourth one
is
i'm praying for other people every
person every request a separate mitzvah
the risa
the fifth one is the drachov you should
walk in hashem's ways
you're benefiting all the people when
you pray the same exact thing
now it's not just one person 20 million
jews across the whole planet
a huge thing every single request huge
the next one is hashem wants to hear us
he wants to hear our voice
hashem here's my voice you get nachos
when you hear me i'm calling you up you
get to hear my voice fantastic right
the other one is it prevents suffering
who knows how much
suffering can be prevented if we pray
ahead of time a huge thing
and the last thing that we said is that
you want as much as you can
to hold up the universe your whole the
last thing second last thing you're
holding up the universe i'll
show made the world stands on three
things one of them is prayer
we don't have carbonos you make it good
as much as you can hold up that fifty
percent that half of a column right
and the last one we said is you are
stretching your rakuli muscles you're
becoming more
concerned and caring and thinking about
other people