Did You Really Pray? - R. Yaakov Rahimi - TorahAnytime.com

I forgot. I heard of the Chofetz Chaim's mother. Okay. So, basically, he started off his story like this. When the Chofetz Chaim's mother passed away, he yarshined, he inherited all the belongings of his mother. Which means the furniture, the utensils, everything. One of the things that he yarshined was a safer Tehillim. A very old safer Tehillim. When people would come to the Chofetz Chaim, when he became the Godol Hador, when people came to him and told him that they needed yeshua, they need help, they need salvation, cuz they're going through a tsara, the Chofetz Chaim would tell them, "Did you really daven to Hashem? Before you come to me, did you really daven?" They said, "Yes, of course, Rabbi, we daven." He says, "No, no, no. Did you really, really pray to Hashem?" He got up, he went to the bookshelf, and he brought that safer Tehillim. And that safer Tehillim, he said, had yellow pages full of tears. And he said, "You see this Tehillim? I witnessed my mother every single morning by alook, by alois, by dawn. I witnessed my mother praying really strongly, davening from the safer Tehillim that her son, which is him, Yisrael Meir, should grow up to be a ish yashar, should grow up to be a person that's honest and serves Hashem. And I saw my mother cry and really daven. And look at the papers, they're all yellow. This is called davening to Hashem. When you daven like this, you're going to see a yeshua, you're going to see a salvation." Here's another powerful story. A person prays, and it's all very important. But who really, really turns to Hashem, and when they daven to Hashem, they really, really, really mean it? You know, they say over from Chacham Ovadia Yosef, for those who recognize his name over here, Rav Ovadia Yosef, they say over that every single morning, all of his sons, all of Rav Ovadia Yosef's sons, became huge talmidei chachamim. They're all very successful. And they say over the reason is because every single morning, like his kids say over, they saw their their when he said birchos hashachar in the morning, he said it at home. They witnessed how their father said it with real kavana and really davening to Hashem that his kids should grow up to be talmidei chachamim. And they said that they witnessed it every single morning how he really really really davened to Hashem. And what happened? Look at the pillow. Look at the pears. What happened? All his kids became major major talmidei chachamim.