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Gateway To Tefilla: Tehilos L'Keil Elyon - The Practice That Reverberates Throughout the Universe

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

A discussion on the practice of Tehilos L'Keil Elyon and its universal impact.

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friends. >> Okay, I want to uh share with you this week's uh shear, this week's presentation on Beer Tfila, Gateway to Tfila. Gateway [snorts] to Tfila is dedicated by my dear friend Reb Tzvi Rosenblatt as his brother, uh Tzvi ben Levi Yitzchak, neshama shalom aliyah. And it should be a melitz yosher for his whole family, Av B'Ezrat Hashem Tzedek. So, we have uh an important observation. We're holding by the last bracha of the bracha's Kriyat Shema, and Ezra's Avotenu. And as is known, we start to prepare ourselves for Shmone Esrei, Tehillos L'Keil Elyon. Now, it doesn't say specifically in Halacha that you need to get up for that spot, but that's Minhog Yisrael. Minhog Yisrael Torah is to get up by Tehillos L'Keil Elyon. The son of the Shlah in his Hagahos on Yish Nachlin, so I go say he says, "Fortunate is the eye that saw all of this, and the ear that heard how every single detail of Torah, every minutia, even what seems trivial and insignificant, every word accomplishes great things in the upper worlds." I'll give one example, the Yish Nachlin says. The minhog that we stand when we get to Tehillos L'Keil Elyon. This is one of the minhogim that may seem small or trivial. And you might say, "What's the difference if you stand here or sit?" But the Gur Aryeh wrote about this custom great secrets. Uh standing up for Tehillos L'Keil Elyon has tremendous ramifications throughout all the various oilamois. And from this, a person should extrapolate to every single subject in the world. Even what seems small and trivial really has a

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