Rabbi Yitzchak Botton - The World of Prayer: Shemoneh Esrei - The First Blessing - Part 1

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

good afternoon uh we're going to begin a series of uh classes that are going to go through the Shon es we'll start with the first blessing of shon es and uh so um we'll get started um before we actually start explaining the per of of the words of the we have to realize that when we're praying specifically Shak in the morning so the prayer culminates with SH it's explained that you know each of the parts that lead up to Shon really are a process of ascending from level to level um generally speaking you have a Kadesh that's there to help uh let us know when we're ascending from level to level and so we start at the beginning corot then we we talk about the with the Praises of Hashem and then we get into bar with the blessings of shma and then we reach Shon and Es itself represents the peak of this Ascent it's the call it the Pinnacle of of the and it's explained in theala that that's when we say we're at the highest point we re that we could reach and and that's why we they mentioned the commentators it's as if we're speaking directly to Hashem that we're facing the in front of the and we're supposed to have a lot of concentration for that of course when we finish we don't just go home there's a similarly as we began going up level by level so after we also begin to descend level by level and again we see different kishes which also signify

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1. 0:21good afternoon uh we're going to begin a series of uh classes that are going to…
2. 3:02really the place where originally Adar was created from and offered up his first sacrifice and…
3. 5:39liken ourselves to the angels so we see a strong connection between us involved in prayer…
4. 8:23verse since it's instituted by the rabbis it doesn't represent an interruption between the bless of…
5. 11:05getting lost imagine in his time the 1800s one in a thousand how how difficult could…
6. 14:19blessing then it's not then that it's not long each blessing is short he says the…
7. 17:05to if you find yourself in the middle of praying the third or fourth blessing and…
8. 19:41um for his rights that he should not lose his business whatever and somehow he's he's…
9. 22:22give back to you can a person give Sak without Hashem first making them Rich can…
10. 25:07mention this is the Yash in the very beginning of his safer he talks he explains…

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