Gateway to Tefilla: The Gratitude and Mysticism of Zokeif Kefufim

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

and thirty skeletal muscles and the great uh miraculous phenomenon of of how within milliseconds the brain sends motion sends signals to all limbs of the body and the body responds in laser fast speed now aside from the miracle of being able to move one's limbs sometimes a person can move their limbs but they're still bound to their bed and that is they may be able to move their hands and their legs but to coordinate and to have the strength to actually stand up tall to stand up yeah sometimes the person could be in a chair and move their hands and wiggle and move around but to stand up erect with posture with confidence is a separate miracle and this is the bracha we make zoykif kefufem the fact that we could stand erect and get up from the bed rahman al-islam even someone who is not able to still makes the bracha because the brachas were enacted ribs writes the same way asuma can make the bracha of yoitsarar and him because uh even if he can't see but if he's riding in a cab and the driver on the other side of the double yellow line um couldn't see he would be in big trouble so he he's appreciative of the gift of sight likewise the gift of zakir khafum so again we come back to the safer adonai floys just to learn a little bit about the miracle of being able to stand the muscles are attached to the main moving bones by tendons made of very strong connective tissue called collagen bones on either side of elbows knees and other joints are connected to each other by tendons tendons are able to ascend a lot of physical stress and they act as springs to aid in our movement the joints between the bones provide flexibility

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