Why Prayer？

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

[Music] it's all good my lord with hashem's loving grace we're answering the question why prayer what do we need to pray for what person might ask if the creator like we said he alone did does and will like we said he alone did does and will do everything then why pray what do we need prayer for isn't everything predetermined personally predetermined stuff it's predetermined okay the game's already thrown you know hashem already knows the outcome so what do we need to pray for and people ask what difference do my prayers make okay these are the questions that tonight's lesson is going to answer all right first i want to tell you about a story out of the torah and other midrish about the prayer regimen in the ancient israelite army it was not just a combat israelite army it was not just a combat regiment there was an equivalent prayer regimen okay they had the army would be split into three parts there were the support troops there were the combat troops and there were the prayer troops there was one third one third one third okay where do we learn this if we open our our book of numbers uh to chapter 31 verses three and 4. moshe bainu he commands the 12 tribes of israel moses commands the 12th tribe of israel and moses says to them mobilize

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2. 5:08battalion and a prayer battalion has to stand on the hill and has to be stay…
3. 10:48slaughtered sanitarily or not if it doesn't have a single back bacteria on it it still…
4. 16:00so unless a person works really hard on spiritual awareness read about spiritual awareness and the…
5. 21:38uh their loving father in heaven withhold success okay the guy was in a boxing match…
6. 27:14they have a muna okay and the gemara warns against this that even these guys are…
7. 32:23loves her and belle coming home it was achievement and townsfolk that that the people you're…
8. 38:01six hundred thousand able-bodied men no only twelve thousand only twelve thousand one out of fifty…
9. 43:10emotions maybe they'll deaden them but they're not going to solve them the only thing that…
10. 48:47enthusiasm of the heart and then says the sahaja yogi when the heart is enthused it…

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