The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-הגאון הינוקא - איך לזכות לכל הניסים The Yanuka

The shiur in English

The Yanuka’s own words in this shiur, translated into English by Lehallel · 575 words · 3:31. Press a time to hear it said.

0:00 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established. Hashem, our Lord, how mighty is Your Name in all the earth. How much one must ask for the kingship of Hashem, blessed be He, to feel that we want His kingship. Not flesh and blood, not all the falsehood of the world. We need to know how to serve Hashem truly, as it should be.

0:26 With a settled mind, without being alarmed, confused. To contemplate the greatness of Hashem, not to be alarmed by anything, not to fear; it is forbidden to let fear into the heart from anything. To fear only the glorious and awesome Name. To serve Him calmly, without pressure, without alarm, Slowly, and with a settled mind. When one comes to the service of Hashem, blessed be He, one must feel that there is all the time in the world and all the patience in the world, and all the pleasure; to feel that this is the root of all the good and all the blessings.

1:07 And this moment, when a person merits to lift his eyes to Hashem, blessed be He, is the loftiest moment in all of creation. When a person feels that there is nothing, nothing, only my prayer - it will save me; prayer saves. That is how one must pray every prayer, every time. That is how one must pray to Hashem. To pray to Hashem - and the connection, the essence and foundation of the connection to Hashem, blessed be He, does not rest on this, that you only need to ask and say it from the lips outward and He will give you. That is not why we pray.

1:44 We pray in order to show Hashem, blessed be He, that all our vitality and everything we have flows from prayer. It is to show Hashem that my connection to Him, and prayer, is the most important thing in the world. And when one feels prayer like this, then its power bursts forth and rises beyond measure, without measure.

2:11 Therefore it is always important, when praying, to feel as if this is a person's last prayer. One must understand that the salvation and the prayer can be now, at this very moment, now, now, and not expect it to bring about some salvation after a time. This is the meaning of prayer; and the intent with which we pray to Hashem does not mean one must make many movements - that is not the intent. It has nothing to do with time; it is connected only to perception, to contemplation.

2:43 Take this principle and this advice all your lives. What we have learned now - all your lives, for every prayer, for every chapter of Tehillim, at the Kotel or anywhere, take it and serve Hashem, blessed be He, with it. This perception alone will help a person to have holy thoughts, he will have help from Heaven, he will pray with a holy thought, with a pure thought, and when one prays to Hashem and feels that this is the only connection with Hashem, blessed be He, and this is all my vitality and my essence, it rests on this.

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