Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Basic Judaism: Prayer From the Heart

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well what we're going to do today we're going to we're going to change tech a little bit from yesterday and uh we're going to i think we're going to become a little bit more a little bit more general right to talk about talk about the concept perhaps of prayer and the uh the reason the reason behind prayer and uh why we pray three times a day um my mother-in-law he says that we pray three times a day because that way we can get out looking off to the kids which is relatively true i think actually you know you pray in the morning when the kids have to be got out of bed and get off to school and you know you'd love to help but hey you gotta go gotta go and pray right and then in the afternoon you know you're supposed to sort of like pick up the kids bring them back from school and of course you'd love to do that but you have to go and pray and in the evening you gotta give a bath and read them a story put them into bed and of course you'd love to do that too but uh you know what can you do you have to go pray um but i don't i don't think that's the only reason even though that does seem to be a uh a relatively a relatively practical dimension to all of this prayer business

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1. 0:16well what we're going to do today we're going to we're going to change tech a…
2. 4:28formalized prayer in those days in those days a person said whatever whatever just came out…
3. 9:09that the men of the great assembly introduced so there are moments within sight of prayer…
4. 13:58you know that much their life their lives were in absolute tatters because they'd come into…
5. 18:15the front it's written very often where the khazan is standing to recite the prayers that…
6. 22:53kineret was reaching an all-time low and the meteorologists got up and they said that you…
7. 27:41these chapters that we recite at the beginning before we begin to recite the shema are…
8. 31:50just reading it and it really it really helps it helps tremendously it's true it's interesting…
9. 36:25very often the silent prayer which is a little bit of a misnomer because it's really…
10. 41:11kinds of things to distract us right so we're you know we've got ipods and and…

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