Fundamentals of Prayer #9 - Why Pray If Our Fate Is Determined On Rosh Hashana + 9th Blessing

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Shaps’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

all right good evening great to see everyone tonight those who we can't see and those who we can't see um i'm just gonna mute everyone feel free to unmute for questions or comments or critiques or anything else um so this is the ninth class of the fundamentals of prayer and actually we are at the ninth blessing of the amidah of the shmona esre and of the amidah of the shmona esre and although sometimes we talk about other things and then head into the blessing that we're looking at but tonight actually i want to open with examining a few words from this blessing and that's going to set us up for the sort of philosophical discussion which is a very philosophical discussion tonight okay an important question that if you if you didn't think of it maybe you'll say you know why didn't i think of that question think of that question but perhaps many of you already thought of the question so but to just uh to introduce so the we in in the going through the blessings of the shmona estrella we started the first three blessings we were praising god then we had a blessing asking for the wisdom and the knowledge to choose the right path to make the right decisions we then went on to the blessing for for us to help ask god's help for us

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1. 0:03all right good evening great to see everyone tonight those who we can't see and those…
2. 5:15the jewish holidays and expenditures for the school fees of his son's taurus doggie and for…
3. 10:21that's not gonna rosh hashanah 17b that's that's last week's uh passage okay the the the…
4. 15:24if it's already determined how much sustenance we're going to receive on rosh hashanah then what…
5. 20:29some understanding especially when there's these to me these these glaring questions that i think it's…
6. 25:37way that they're really just talking about different things because based on what we've learned tonight…
7. 30:43on the source sheets number four but before we get to that point in the story…
8. 35:48who ended up being very wicked as he had seen but that's that's another part of…
9. 40:52why perhaps that's what lies behind this teaching of rabbi yitzhak that it's true there's a…
10. 46:00and all the varieties of its produce should be lethova for for good this this blessing…

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