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How can i increase my concentration and memory in prayer and Torah? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

How can i increase my concentration and memory in prayer and Torah? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] how to fight it around you pray and find yourself you steal your eyes and still running on theour but your minding somewhere else how to not to lose concentration ining second how to concentration ining second how to improve memory you learn something partial or three days later you barely remember what you okay you have to listen to the question because it's a very good question I'm going to repeat it the first question the first question that is asking is how to fight the yet while you praying and and your thoughts are going all sorts of places and your your your mind and your eyes are somewhere here how do you what was the beginning here how do you what was the beginning how do you how do you fight the that when you pray your thoughts people most people they pray the thoughts are constantly bothering them you think of one thing you to pray think of your business so for a man the first thing you want to do is you want to go to the mik in the morning first of all do what you want to go to the mikah in the morning okay because when you wake up in the morning you have a lot of a lot of impurity on your body so you go to the impurity on your body so you go to the mik first thing in the morning you remove this impurity first of all second of all is that you want before you pray to learn T most people they come 5 minutes later them minan you want to learn Torah before you start the minan why because the Torah sharpens your brain now you want to learn at least want to learn some something that is happing the brain doesn't matter what right now but you learn something that

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  1. 0:00[Music] how to fight it around you pray and find yourself you steal your eyes and
  2. 2:04right now but you learn something that you don't don't learn you do that after the
  3. 4:36you put it like this in the light you don't see it you just see the
  4. 6:38anything that it's boiling hot that's when the problem starts so you want to be fanatic
  5. 9:15oh that doesn't matter doesn't matter now now regards to the memory and why a lot
  6. 11:18walking up on the mountain all the wagons are shaking and all the barrels are full
  7. 13:53dirt so you put water in and more water and more water water is tor and
  8. 15:55problem with the memory I seen my boys Yesa 12 year olds my son knows 600
  9. 18:28then you fix it that's why you see the the the the the guys are sitting
  10. 20:31throat it becomes part of me I'm becoming United with the Torah same thing with understanding

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