Why You Should Pray With A Minyan And Which Is The Most Important Prayer Of The Day?

[Music] so the uh the says that one of the uh one of the uh major that's in the for many many years he did not pray with him inyan and the reason why is because he was so into his learning tah that he said me going to the sh taking 15 minutes to walk there and 15 minutes back and until they start the prayer and until they finish and they do it's going to take so much time I could learn more during that time so for many years he didn't do it himself so but then he learned himself about the significance of praying with the and he started praying with aan why when you pray you have to make sure that you pray with kavana meaning that you have full intention and understanding of what you're saying and you're not thinking about all the mundane things things you're not thinking about all the things that are going on in your life you're not thinking about what you're going to eat for lunch you're not thinking about what's you know what's going on in the market you're not thinking about all the stuff that's technically in your mind anyway now truth be told most of us think about a bunch of stuff during prayer sometimes we have a good really really good prayer that a part of the prayer we thought about Hashem and a part of the prayer not so much sometimes we're fantastic the whole time we thought about hm but that's not common it's not common so that means that you're going to go you're going to pray let's say which is by the way just so you know the is the most important prayer of the entire day it's not it's not most people think it's because it's the longest it's it's actually not the most important the most critical prayer of the day is so you're gonna pray and reality is that you're gonna do Amid and out of theid you got 19 six of them were good six of them were kosher the other 13 we're not even sure if it's kosher we're not even show you if you remember what you said so now that's going to go up to Sham Hashem is going to look at this like you serious this is how you pray to me you pray to me like this this this half this this half a prayer how do you expect me to give you good health all of these things you're asking for you forgot the words at the time you said them how now you send AEM a prayer like that it's not that good you send a a prayer with full so what happens so the did a they said you pray with a why because they understood the mercifulness of hem and they understood that if you pray with the minan AEM loves Unity so much that he will take the best part of everybody's prayers because he knows his creation and he knows that out of the 50 people he's going to have one that's good he's going to have a half that's good he's going to have a really two that's good he's going to take the best pieces of everyone combine it as one and make it counted for everybody as if everybody had a full prayer so that means that everybody's prayer is being listened in sh everybody's perfect on the other hand you pray by yourself what ends up happening is that if you have kavana sometimes it's even better than being aan but if you don't have kavana then you're sending AEM like a uh you know like kosher but we're not really sure if it's really kosher so that's the the ideal is to pray with aan but again sometimes if you travel a lot if you do business you do all types of things it's not always possible to pray with a minan you still have to pray you still should pray uh and you should obviously always have kavana and that's the reason why I said before don't ever think that you're allowed to uh you know ride a uh horse or drive a car or be busy with something else while praying When you pray you pray same thing with T when you learn T you learn T so much so that you should remember you should know says in the someone that treats his Torah learning lightly and you know he has a book in front of him but he also has the phone in front of him and he has the computer in front of him and he has uh you know a few other things in front of him and every two seconds he stops the book and he looks at the phone he looks at the computer he looks at this he looks at this in essence he's treating the Torah like he's treating his phone same same level of importance he says that person could be bringing on himself as a death penalty that's that's how that's that that's how bad it is so what do you do you know you're going to have distractions already when you start already when you start when anytime somebody leaves the holy Torah to go deal with mundan things it doesn't look good in sham unless they planned it ahead either by saying I'm going to study for an hour straight two hours straight whatever it is 15 minutes straight and then I'll do the mundane things that's no problem or uh I believe it was MOS Feinstein said what you should do is already have in your head that whenever there is something that needs to happen let's say there's a phone call or your wife calls you or your mom calls you or something calls you that's officially a time that you already plan to to to stop but again that doesn't mean that you should stop every two seconds it just means that if something happens you meant to stop that way so that that gives you like a get out of jail free card type of thing but don't treat the Torah lightly as if it's the same importance as your phone or as something else so which means that when when you're talking to remember you're talking to the King of Kings you're learning his Torah you have to treat it accordingly same thing with how you go to a a is aik you have to come appropriately you can't come some people come to the besset with a bathing suit or they come with tank tops now I know maybe it's more comfortable that way because you want to be naked but the reality is you're not a baby anymore it's not cute you're coming to see you have to come appropriately you're you don't necessarily need to come with a full three-piece suit but you have to come appropriately for men and for women you cannot come with a only like half your body uh covered it's not appropriate remember is here he's not up there he's here here right now it's not me I promise you it's Hashem is here though any place that there's Tora Hashem is there so that means that if you're going to go meet Hashem you have you have to look appropriate and not just act appropriate but look appropriate so if you're going to continue socializing that's not appropriate the jab was at the ones that were socializing what I'm talking next jph you have some questions next to you very good question had a uh battle with a bunch of to there's a story where there was a bunch of fake prophets and these fake prophets told people to uh go worship idols they said no no this is instructions of hem this is instructions of God to go to these middlemen was a reincarnation some people say or just simply the same person as Pinas meaning he was a very zealous person so zealous that who never killed him he became a Mal and he's the one that's going to bring that's going to come three days before mashia it's says so now elvi was very zealous for hem f for the truth when he saw that the leaders were all fakers he says okay you're all going to come on your knees you to come on your knees begging for hasem to uh to to give you another chance from now on he says it's not going to rain and it happened for three years it didn't rain famine starvation no vegetables no fruits animals are dying people are dying everything and Yi was hiding in a cave and Hashem send them food every day eventually he send them a message okay it's time of Leah to go back it's time to go back show them the truth they got the message time to show but as you would have it it says even on even at the Gate of don't do ch people that are really really wicked even at the Gate of Gom you tell him a million times you show them proof you bring him mosu himself M himself bring him no no no maybe maybe it's this maybe it's that they got a lot of questions until the Gate of Gom why it says until the Gate of Gom because inside Gom everybody knows everybody knows is not worth it to sin inside G but until the gate they're still trying to fight the battle still trying to win the battle point being these Wicked people these fake prophets continue with their argument and wanted to show a big and show everybody the beauty of the Tora the beauty of but the so he said okay this is what we're going to do every one of you fake prophets you get and you do a sacrifice to your God and I'll do a sacrifice to Hashem and whatever sacrifice gets accepted by Heaven that's who God is how do we know it's accepted by Heaven has to be a heavenly fire a Heavenly Fire has to come and burn theban so the everybody is red up all types of things going everybody makes their Mis they bring theban and each one of them starts doing their prayer to their Idol but nothing happens they pray a little more nothing happens Le is just sitting there laughing at them there's thousands of people millions of people watching this thing and the No No Maybe your maybe your idol can't hear it she say it louder and say it a little louder your eye can't hear it no say it a little loud maybe maybe he's hard of hearing he's old after a while of making fun of them he says let me show you who is and he not only put the but he actually put a bunch of water on it making it to the extent that it was literally a puddle a puddle on top of it meing now to burn something is one thing but to burn something that's in water it's against nature he literally made a puddle and then he prayed to at the time of at the time of sayem please show everybody you are God and a fire from heaven came and burned not only theban it actually burned the water and that's why the says there are several different types of fire there's a fire that just consumes the solids there's a fire that consumes the liquids there's a fire that consumes both this was a fire that consumes both this was the fire that consumes both solids and liquids this is the fire of the it's called the fire of the consumes everything nothing is more powerful than it so this is the fire that did and we learn from there that he did it specifically at the time of because he knew that that's the ideal time to pray to good question [Music]