Why Tefillah? Plugging in to Our Power of Prayer

[Music] was walking and he met a little boy little boy he said where is hashem and the child looked up at the cut scareby and said that's easy rebbe hashem is everywhere and the katskareby looked at him and said no my child hashem is only where you allow him to enter these days of yume razo these days of elo when the king is in the field we have the opportunity to speak and to connect hashem but we must allow hashem to enter our hearts our minds our spirits our space and the only way that we can do this is through te fila when we are able to say hako ko yaakov the voice is the voice of yaakov of we were able to reach because we have an awareness of hashem in our life we allow hashem to enter our hearts through speaking to shem through davanitashem then we are able to actually connect in a much deeper way in a much more meaningful way we were able to reach shamayim and break through the gates of shaman and davin for ourselves for those we love for amisuru for everest israel and for the world so how do we do this why is it so difficult to keep inspired why is it so difficult to have passion when we dive in why is it a problem of talking it ensuring in so many different schools and synagogues across the world where's the fire perhaps it is because we don't truly believe in ourselves in our own me i should be able to break through shamayim my words really count i can make a difference in this world i can make a difference for my family for those i love for myself for my community for a cola for somebody who's sick i can actually be the one be that conduit for refuga for yeshua for a shidduch for parnassa for financial security for bringing a baby for bringing life into this world me i'm just a simple person what can i possibly do and so at times we lose that passion and we lose that fire and we lose that inspiration because if we truly understood the koa the power that we had with our words with our hearts with our deeper with our tephila with our prayers then the moment that we open up a sitter the moment that we get up in the morning we would embrace that koa we would embrace that opportunity and we would run to say here i am i'm ready to darwin to serve you to break through the gates of shamayim and make a difference in this world i can be that mikar i can be that source of bracha in this world especially now during gimme razon gimmera rosh hashanah teaches us that the power of zuchus to feel abhirabham of the merit of dhavaning bharabham of dhavaning with many people is huge and what does that mean does it mean that i need to look for the largest shul and the largest synagogue and say okay this is the greatest such robin because there are so many people davening here together so when i have so many people i have the greatest of us so who's robbed amongst many does not only mean that i share a space with people but it means that i share a spiritual space an emotional space a mental space it means that i care for others and i share your pain i share your simcha i share your joy as if it is for myself and my own it's not just shema khali hashem listen to my voice but shema kalini listen to our voices hashem because we come to you as one means that we are all joined together you are all my children and when you come together before me that's the koa that we need to tap into so when i stand in school and i'm ready to dive into kurdish i have to remember not just my pain not just my aches not just my joys but i have to be grateful and i have to think about every single person who's around me this person who needs a shirt this family who needs a yeshua this child who needs a refuel who needs healing this family that needs shalom bias that needs peace that needs parnassa that needs financial security their pain is actually my pain and if i can come to a kardashian here not just representing myself hashem but i'm representing everyone that is around me and we carry each other's joys we carry each other's burdens that is the koah and the zuchus the merit of tzfilip so we begin each day with a beautiful passage when i open up my sitter and i actually underline this in my own sitter harini mekabel al-atsumi mitzvah says hashem i am coming to you now and before i dive in i'm going to take a moment and i'm going to think of somebody who is having pain was having a challenge was having a struggle i'm going to try to feel what they are feeling to try to feel their tsar and if i feel their tsar their challenge their suffering if i try to feel just for 30 seconds what they are going through then i'm showing that i'm not standing here by myself hashem says i am with you with your tsar i am with you with your suffering i am with you with your pain hashem reflects back to us that which we give so if i can take a moment before i daven and i can choose one person and feel what they are going through and daven for them not just from myself then i ask hakadosh see hashem how i feel for another and the same way that i feel for another and cry for another and try to to understand what they're going through feel for me cry for me understand what i'm going through the same way that i ask for their refueler and their yeshua please hashem open your eyes to my reform to my yeshua and give us all that we ask for hakadosh because we are your children and we are one family and we feel for each other so now we come to the question of why davin why is it important that we dive and why pray doesn't the child know what i need doesn't every parent know what their child needs does a child have to pray and ask for breakfast lunch and supper food shelter clothing doesn't hashem know everything that we need just as a parent does when i was a little girl i used to think that i was doing hashem a favor every time that i darvened i used to think that hashem needs my to feel us but with life and all that life brings and the wisdom of age and years i've realized that it's not me i'm not doing hashem a favor when i dabbin that's so childlike but hashem is doing me a favor by allowing me to speak to him each and every day hashem is doing me a favor by giving me the opportunity to daven so why do we darwin why do we pray the rambam says that we pray and we daven every single day to establish the principle that hashem notices every action that we have hashem hears every single word there is nothing random that happens in my life there is nothing random that happens in your life everything comes from health happiness success crossing the street every moment of every day every breath that i take from the moment that i wake up in the morning to the moment that i go to sleep everything comes from children parnassa shidduch the big moments the little moments every piece of food that i put in my mouth i make a bracha because it's a moment for me to connect hashem everything is here and comes according to your word i darwin to recognize that everything that i have everything that i did have everything that i will have in my life comes from and i cannot take anything for granted life is a gift be mindful this very moment is a gift nothing is automatic so davny is not based on my mood davening is not based on whether i need something right now or not davening is every single day it's a way for us to refresh to reboot to reconnect to re to recommit takers i have the opportunity to speak to hashem i have that koach fila and let us explore now the fundamentals of tafila we will explore number one today we will leave with this first fundamental of tfila number one i davin to gain and muna and bittachlam in kadus i daven to gain my faith and my connection in hashem to fella davening with intention with kavanaugh means that i never give up hope and i never give up on life hashem can do anything and hashem can do everything that is hashem sees everything hashem understands my needs everything in my personal life and space comes from on these days of elo we recite to hillem huff gimmel the words of david hamel david hashem hashem is my life hashem is my salvation and we end by saying hashem hope to hashem kaveelashem be strong have courage in your heart be caveal hashem and hope to hashem and the question is why do we say hope to hashem be strong have courage and then we see again hope to hashem why repeat kavel hashem and here is something beautiful to us for us to remember on these days as we reach out to kadish and in his safer shane tov cotton which was published in the year 1706 said that if anyone recites this to hillam this capital to hillam tsimo the david hashem but we recite it with all our heart with kavanagh with mindfulness and we say hashem hashem and we know that we don't give up hope even if we don't see our yeshua right away even if we keep on trying and davening and we don't feel answered but instead of stopping we have courage and we go back with our strength and we say hashem it's me again and i'm knocking on your door again hashem i'm not going to give up i'm not going to give up i'm going to daven i'm going to darwin again and again and again because i believe and i have a muna and bitter and i will reach you and i'm waiting to reach you and i'm waiting to feel answered because you are my beloved le david hashem hashem you are my light you are my salvation i needly dodi the dodi li we saying elo we are so connected hashem especially during these days i'm not going to give up anyone who says these words with complete kavanagh and mindfulness and doesn't give up we are told that you are able to eradicate gazebos from shamayim you are able to get rid of gezeros of a gazardin of a difficult judgment in shamayim don't give up that is the koha of art to feel a might feel of your tv but we cannot give up you are able to actually nullify a decree with these words of tohilum with your words with my words so we darven for amiistral and we dive in forever to israel and we dive in for each other and we dive in for those we love and we dive in for ourselves and we don't give up i'd like to conclude our time with this year with this memory that i have when i had my first little girl my grandmother whom i called mama came to my home to visit my mama my grandmother had survived broken bells i placed the baby into mama's arms and she began to sing a lullaby that her mommy and her bubby used to sing to her that she sang to me and now she sang from my baby shluffy schluffy maydala sleep sleep my little girl and after mama sang to my baby my mama looked at me and she began to cry slav she said there were days in my life when i was in bergen-belsen that i didn't believe that i would ever see the sun shine again but one thing i knew and one thing i believed that even if i would not survive amistral would survive our nation would survive because so good hashem loves am israel and hashem will never abandon us so i never stop davening and i never stop believing in the kawak and the power of ambisaro and the love that hashem has for each and every one of us years later some years later my grandmother mama returned her nishama her soul to shamayim my daughter grew up hashem she got married she moved to eritsera el tirushalayim and one day my son-in-law called me mommy musseltop we had a little girl i took the next plane out to eretz israel to yerushalayim and i remember knocking on my daughter's apartment door i opened the door and there my daughter is holding her little girl my first grandchild to be born my daughter placed the baby in my arms and she said mommy don't you want to know her name because i took the first plane out and i said of course of course shay fella we named her miriam for mama that night i slept in miriam's room and at six in the morning as old babies do she woke up and she cried to eat to have a bottle through the slats in the window i saw the golden sun of you shalom come through the room i took miriam in my arms basking in this light of yerushalayim in the first golden rays and i began to sing the same lullaby that my mama sang to me and sang to my daughter and when i finished i said look at this mama from bergen bells and tirus who would ever have imagined hashem is so good and here mama i'm holding a baby who carries your name miriam who would ever have imagined from bergen-belsen to ushalayim that amicro has survived how is it that we have survived we are a nation of miracles through our koach of tufila through our of of believing in and these are the days where we can use this koa ko ko yaako to use our koah of te fila and plug in to the ace red zone of these special days [Music]