The Ladder of Prayer-פרשה ויצא

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

[Music] the Torah tells us that yov left and then on his way to to find a wife for himself he met a place he went to sleep there he had a dream and there was a ladder and on this ladder there were Angels going up and there were Angels coming down Yakov awoke and he realized that he was a very very special place the place that he was lying upon was going to be the future site of the B mikdash of the Holy Temple and on this Temple Mount would bring sacrifices Carbono and the angels going up on the ladder were actually the angels of our prayers for every time we say say a word like sh is we create an angel and all of our prayers and all of these angels that we create go through Jerusalem and then our prayers go up to God and they are heard so all the prayers that a Jew prays in America or Russia or China or Japan anywhere in the world all of these prayers first go to Kon to abrah who created the prayers and then they go to Jerusalem and they go straight up to God so yov realized he was on a very Holy Mountain a place where all the prayers come forth and plead before God what is the definition of prayer what is the objective of prayer the ram tells us in the positive commandment number five when the Torah tells us We Shall Serve God our Lord the Mitzvah to serve means the Mitzvah to pray but what is the pat what is the simple definition of prayer and what is

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1. 0:02[Music] the Torah tells us that yov left and then on his way to to find…
2. 2:14thees the hint and the the htics and the so and the esoteric and theic interpretation…
3. 4:54therefore no matter how much we have or how much we have a already accomplished the…
4. 7:42first and second Holy Temple and once again we renew our faith in the rebuilding of…
5. 10:38us and it's brought down in many places in what is the structure of daving and…
6. 13:19not only The Godly Soul should love God but also the animal soul and this is…
7. 15:59in other words of course prayer is something that is from Torah law on the other…
8. 18:47biblical yet it is not not enumerated as one individual limited finite mitvah and therefore the…
9. 21:23with God all day long and therefore if only a person would pray would connect with…
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