Consistent Prayers - R. Yaakov Rahimi - TorahAnytime.com

There's a story with a Rabbi Zamir Cohen who runs an organization in Israel called Hidabroot. And he said over very interesting. He says that he met a woman that would always call him up for questions in Halacha of kashrus in the kitchen. And when he met her, he saw that you know, he got to know her and he saw that she wasn't from. So he asked her, "I don't understand. You call me up for the all these Halachas in kashrus and boss of a choleh and different things. And then I see, you know, he was very open with her, I see that you're not, you know, from." She tells him, "No, Rabbi, you don't understand. All my kids are from. They got married, they're from, and they come to my house. I have to make sure when I give them food that the kashrus in the kitchen is per otherwise they're not going to be eating. So the boss of a choleh has to be kosher." He tells her, "How could it be that all your kids are from? Like tell me the story behind it." And she told him that many, many, many years ago she went to a lecture called Arachim. One of the biggest kiruv organization in Israel is called Arachim. So she went to a lecture and before you sat down at the lecture they put out like a booklet of tefilos on the chairs to take for free. So she took that home with her after the lecture and she prayed from it every single day. That's what she did. Years later as her kids got older and became adults to see what what their mother was praying every single day they looked at that piece of paper. What was it? It was the Tefilas Hashlah. The Shlah has a special tefilah for parents to daven for their children to be shomer Torah u'mitzvos and have yiras Shamayim and learn and grow. So that means the mother every single day davened from the Tefilas Hashlah that talks about how Hashem should make sure their kids grow up to be yiras Shamayim and serving Hashem. And what and she here she herself, of course she knew what she was reading, but she didn't recognize the power of that tefilah, but she said it every single day. And what happened? Every single one of her children, even though she is not from, every single one of her children became from. That's an unbelievable lesson. When a person prays consistently, like Rav Chaim Volozhin says, Rav Chaim Volozhin writes, "A person who's in action, a person who's stubborn and doesn't stop diving to Hashem, that person will succeed. Now, you have to be careful what you pray for.