Why Do Jews Pray?

Name: Why Do Jews Pray?
Uploaded: 2020-09-02T00:00:00Z
Duration: 10 min
Channel: Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] what is prayer what is Shimona EST and prayer is one of the most important things that we can do it is the request for divine Merc Mercy on us from God who is continuously creating the world and that is why it is so important to connect to prayer to pray three times a day with a Shona EST and to really concentrate on your prayer because this is the time to make this request and I'll tell you a secret about Shon Rabbi barnman in the name of Rabbi yanan says the 18 blessings of Shona esre correspond to the 18 commands that are written in the second scriptural passage about the building of the mishon in pude there are 18 commands which are talking about the fabrication and assembly of the mishon and it says over there as Hashem commanded Moses 18 times connection between Shimona EST and building the Temple is like you building When you pray and that each Act of prayer each Act of Torah learning each Act of mitz vote strengthens and brings order to the spiritual dimension of the world and refines yourself and you start to make yourself more holy and you start to see new things in the spiritual Dimension and I have another secret for you to help get your prayers answered aab yakob says if somebody makes an error in prayer in the blessing of the Patriarchs this is going to be the first blessing of Shona Esra and an error there is a very bad sign that somebody's prayer is going to be undesirable Rabbi Yeshua ban Ley said if the lips of a person produce fruit and his words of prayer flow effortlessly from his lips he will be informed that his prayer for Shona esay was accepted and what is the scriptural basis for this teaching when one produces fruit of the lips then peace peace for far and near says Hashem and I will heal him if the praying is done in a clean way where there's not bumbling and they're stumbling and a person prays well there's a good chance that heaven is going to help to Grant requests if you're not not concentrating while you are praying you did not pray that is the halaha by the rambam the shma also requires tense concentration the first verse which you have to talk about God's absolute Oneness and his total sovereignty and again you're trying to connect with this idea of a OD Mado and you're saying the shma the difference with this and the Shon EST tensity is going to be for a shorter period of time because the Shon EST is a much longer set of prayers it's just you and the creator of the universe you're connecting to this higher source prayer requires specific concentration from beginning to end so you should be able to exert yourself spiritually and concentrate if you want to work on your ability to earn more parasa there's a lot of stories about people who get special Bara in saying batone for a longer period of time with intense concentration in fact when people go to Rabbi kvki and ask what do I do to earn more parnasa the first thing he's going to go and tell you he's going to say spend more time doing baratam his own because there's a connection there's a pipeline going from thanking Hashem being grateful for his sustenance of you he created you he's sustaining you and you are thanking him now there's a theme that shows up in the midrashim and in the Halo that that once somebody is no longer grateful you are no longer obligated to go and help him you don't have to go spend any extra effort to go help him out if he's not grateful and it's very serious not to be grateful to Hashem for sustaining you so batam Mone is a very very special prayer Rabbi hkia in the gamarra and Rabbi Yakov Baraka were sitting outdoors in a certain place and Rabbi Yakov Baraka had with him some brutos these are coins that are very low value the time of prayer arrived and Rabbi Yakov gave Brutus to Rabbi hisia Rabbi hkia tied one part to his belt another part forming a pouch in which he placed the brutos but the knot loosened and the brutos fell out and they were lost and seeing that Rabbi hkia felt guilty about the loss of Rabbi yakov's coins Rabbi yakob said to him what more were you able to do he's basically saying that it's an onus it's an unavoidable loss this is really a idea that also shows the DK erets because you're concerned for your fellow Jew for the quality of their prayer as well and showing that you have to do things to try to give your fellow Jew a good feeling you have to be concerned about the welfare of your brother Jew you are required in the Torah to do it and anyway don't you want to live in the kind of society where we're all brothers and we're all looking out for each other we're all trying to help each other out isn't that a more healthy civilization and Society to be part of and that's what Judaism promises when you follow the laws when you go and you are her and you go and you live in a her neighborhood that's what happens everybody looks out for everyone else everyone helps out everyone else and you end up living in a more fulfilling life environment you are part of a neighborhood and you have this community to help you and you're part of a community and you're looking out for other people's wellbeing and they're looking out for you and that's why it's so important to be careful who your neighbors are and to be careful who your friends are and that's why it's so important to live in a Jewish neighborhood where people are observing the Hal hope thear wants to continue one of the workers in the beam mikdash was carrying the purification Waters and the time came for saying shma the is you're not allowed to divert your attention and if you do divert your attention it invalidates it according to the point of rabbi if this process with the waters and Ashes weren't done yet if you already had the intention to bring the waters for the parad Duma and your mind diverted attention then you can't use it for the par Duma now keep in mind the water on the paruma has a level of tahor that is at a higher level than even a Mikvah this is something that you can't lose any distraction on and so if it were before you've assembled the water of purification and you've lost your attention and you've lost your concentration then you can't use it in the chos and in in COD ship that one of the requirements is that you have to maintain your atttention you have to guard it Taurus says you you are to guard it you have to be able to keep your attention on these things as well that have sanctity you're not allowed to go and divert your attention from it and if you do then you can't use it anymore so you have to really keep your head in the game when you're a Jew you you have to keep your head in the game when you're praying while you're saying the shma you have to really be focused and why is that because our reason for existence is to make ourselves holy and is to be holy to Hashem the only way to do that is to follow all of the Halo follow the mitzvot and to keep the observance of the Torah once you have this level of Holiness the metaphysical experience that you are going to have in your lifetime is going to be completely new you're going to see completely new things in your lifetime and when you open up the Torah and you read these amazing things that happened to all of the Patriarchs and the matriarchs and the amazing things that happened to Moshe Renu you can also see amazing things happen in your life this is the guarantee to every Jew this is not for those people this is for you for you to be able to have as well you are put here as a Jew there is so much meaning for and everything that is promised to the Patriarchs is promised to you and you can transform yourself by having all of the observance with the Halo and the mitv where you can start to transform yourself into being holy the more holy you get the more you're going to see a change in your experience because hasem who was continuously creating is going to start to rearrange the universe in a completely different way for you and that is why you really really need to cling to Torah learning so that you can know what is to May and what is toor so you can refine yourself and you can make yourself more holy and the best way to start is to start to learn and to start today to concentrate more on your Shona EST and your shma if you're not really doing those things today you don't really understand the shma you don't really understand Shon that's okay go contact a her Orthodox Rabbi and go learn from these guys they are going to walk you through it hand in hand and you are going to start to see and experience the treasure that is there for you so don't lose out this lifetime have a great day [Music]

Why Do Jews Pray?

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