Face Your Brother!!

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

plays, I want to talk about prayer. The Wolf Pack just pulled out. They just They're pulling out with my van and they're going They're going to have a playoff game against the school that's been a rival of ours for many years. Going back 13 12 years ago, we beat them on the last second half-court shot. And then we've lost many games and have many like intense rivalries. And tomorrow night, there'll be about 400 people in that gym. It'll be raucous. 500. So, it's an gym. It'll be raucous. 500. So, it's an exciting game. And it brings up about prayer. Do you pray for it? Do you pray until Do you say to Hashem, "Let the Wolf Pack win?" Should you pray for it? And the ans- The answer, of course, the short and above it just asked me. A guy in Yeshiva told me, "Rebbi, that there's He didn't explain the aveira. He said there's some aveira he wants to do. Can you pray to Hashem to help him out?" A guy in Yeshiva just asked me. Said he's something he wants [clears throat] to do. It's It's It's not necessarily right. Could he See, a not necessarily right. Could he See, a lot of pray to Hashem. That's what he asked. So, that's the There's a There's a Gemara on this. There's There's a There's sugyas about this. There's a lot of sugyas about this. The ikkar of prayer, anybody Anybody who ever prayed gets to these type of questions, "Should I ask for that?" And I want to say that question itself is part of prayer. I grapple. I ask Hashem the Wolf Pack should win. And in the middle of my prayers, I'm

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