Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser - Jewish Thought: Formal and Informal Prayer

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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.

when it comes to prayer there is formal prayer and there is informal prayer formal prayer is the prayer that you find in a prayer book you know like this is the art scroll prayer recon so you get you go through in it like it has like now you're doing this section how you're doing that and what you're supposed to have in mind here what you're supposed to have in mind there a lot of numerical values going on like a lot of uh values going on like a lot of uh kabbalistic kind of number values going on in different paragraphs which are you know doing things it's all like basically doing things and that's all form of prayer that's using the the prayer book then there's something called informal prayer and in form of prayer is a relationship just between you and god okay that's a relationship where you're connecting to god and uh just from your own heart you know ideally using your own language and just uh uh just connecting like that you get it and like this is me and god jews don't even have a patent on this one because any human being on earth who has a relationship with god and relates to god is doing it and we're not necessarily doing it better so for example i could be doing my formal prayer in the morning you know really getting into it and like saying all the words meanwhile some other dudes in uh in uh you know he's standing out in his

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1. 0:22when it comes to prayer there is formal prayer and there is informal prayer formal prayer…
2. 2:25total connection and so what you'll find is that formal prayer is all about alignment okay…
3. 4:59adultery and don't be cruel to animals those are the five as long as they're not…
4. 7:00but blowing it on the details and then you get another guy who's like amazing with…
5. 9:35music's like a very obvious frequency and and it cuts through the worlds differently than the…
6. 12:15as expressed through the jewish people because it's very ethnocentric that particular prayer the silent prayer…
7. 14:16that when it's talking about you know who who uh heals the ill and and uh…
8. 16:51these this holy nation is always praising you and and that that's jacob that's the blessing…
9. 18:53and then a year of prosperity and then we're asking god like load our pockets please…
10. 21:29added a paragraph that the bad dudes should uh should get lost um and some are…

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