Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Prayer - 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.

you I want to talk about prayer now first of all the word prayer refers specifically to the shmona esra that I me dot that to the shmona esra that I me dot that silent portion that you say standing with legs together facing the next holiest place the vast majority of the contents of the prayer book are not prayer I know that's difficult and funny so it is in fact in Hebrew is out a prayer book at all it's a seed or and see the remains organizer or something say there is order and in it you have the silent prayer which is strictly speaking prayer and they have other things like saying the schmatta which is things like saying the schmatta which is not prayer and say in the morning blessing which is not prayer and study the Mishnah which is not prayer where is just that section salad now that section breaks up into three pieces it starts with praise of God in the middle you have petition asking God for things at the end you have an expression of gratitude okay there's something after that it's a little complicated like everything else but that's the three basically praise petition and gratitude basically praise petition and gratitude the weekday prayers the petition section is by far the largest of the three and in fact the purpose of coming before God in prayer is to make petitions that's what's going on praise is there because the others barge in and say hey give me X you express what you couldn't understand that your relationship to God and the purpose that he wants you to love to and of course you only express gratitude but the reason you're going

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1. 0:00you I want to talk about prayer now first of all the word prayer refers specifically…
2. 4:41are we progressing towards so that in the request can be an intelligent request for example…
3. 9:23and think of the fact that my children to the fact am i teaching or the…
4. 14:00interests number one presenting myself as a servant of God presenting myself as one who has…
5. 18:39be able to ask for the things that you need as as a as it means…
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7. 28:27sample of grains so that the grains of the year will be blessed and why is…
8. 33:08pray is lit his Pelayo la Hezbollah is a grammatical form in Hebrew which is reflexive…
9. 37:51follow out that decision with practical efforts then God is sending us a signal he wants…
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