Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Praying for Others: The Kidnapping

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thank you we're facing a very tragic situation now the foundation of our response is prayer I say Foundation because there are many ramifications no one is preaching sitting by idly and doing nothing to try to rescue them even more I believe you could use very brutal methods without without any any um any kid's gloves any kid's gloves you could surround the whole area and go through it with tanks until they're given up blow up buildings and you know every place where they could possibly be hiding go through Walmart one after another anyway but prayer is the foundation of our response now we have to understand what it means what are we doing when we're praying especially praying for somebody else there is a kind of naive question that was asked early in the Hasidic the Hasidic movement of the host of The Blood The Seer of the blind the great I guess they call them third generation Hasidic leaders and he was asked how do you pray for somebody else I understand I can pray for yourself what does it mean to pray for somebody else now let's just notice they're praying for somebody else is as old as Judaism a couple of weeks ago we had the incident where Miriam was punished for a crime by Contracting saraz which is mistranslated as leprosy mistranslated as leprosy and Aaron turns to his brother Moshe and says she shouldn't be in such a terrible condition pray for her and Moses prays for Miriam kale not rafana Allah please now heal her it's obviously praying for somebody else is as old as the Torah is is definitely right the question is why is it right what does it mean gave an answer and I believe that his answer really exists on two levels on an open

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1. 0:43thank you we're facing a very tragic situation now the foundation of our response is prayer…
2. 5:19intermediary there is a old issue I grew up reform so I know this from the…
3. 10:28now they find they found her the tears of relief so they said to her that…
4. 15:05so something's gone wrong and it can't be love your friends yourself because that's a quote…
5. 20:13told the woman I want you to go home and take a raw egg and put…
6. 25:17and I realized that I was guilty of a confusion since I was guilty of that…
7. 29:50position is a real and inhuman as Grand and as as as spiritual as it sounds…
8. 34:56and they can and they can be able to go home that's the second and deeper…
9. 39:36represents a means by which you will get to the ultimate goal of creation both are…
10. 44:42yourself and you can never love somebody else now if you're bringing somebody else Into You…

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