Stepping into the Amidah | How to Stand Before Hashem Amida | Tefillah Series

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

So, we made it to the Amida. We're standing on the top of the mountain. As we said before says, why is the Amida called the Amida? Not just cuz you're standing, but because there's nowhere to climb anymore. You've reached the top. So far, we've been climbing up the ladder of consciousness. Jacob's ladder of connecting to Hashem. Physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. We're standing at the top of the ladder. standing at the top of the ladder. There's nowhere to go. It's called dam. And we're now that's got to take you a bit of buildup that we've done in the last three classes. You got to be very excited as you're getting closer and closer. Don't be like, "Okay, I just said, okay, come on. Come on. You got to be stand you're we actually You got to be stand you're we actually stand up at this point. So we stand up and in my we sing that bit or whatever tune. It's not a set tune. Whatever tune the Kazan wants to give. So we're now sing. We're getting ready. We're getting out. We're going to meet. I I jump a bit just cuz I do martial arts. So I'm like I'm getting ready. I'm like come on. If you see, I don't know if you watch Rocky. If you haven't watched Rocky, I can't respect

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6. 12:52when it starts. When it says you got to start the straight after that means. So…
7. 15:33You have no idea what you're saying. It's like, okay, a god. We're going to say…
8. 18:07minion but if I did I would I I do kind of have a minion but…
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