Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb discusses the nature of prayer and its connection to Hashem.
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All right, we're alive. >> Okay, we're on page 109. The sitter. I see that yesterday I skipped over a blessing. After the rebuilding of Jerusalem comes Davidic reign. >> Davidic reign? >> Yeah, that's when you get your umbrella out. You just make sure you don't get wet. It's r e i g n. A word that nobody says anymore. Nobody does anymore. It means being king. And the Messiah has to be a direct descendant on the male line only from King David. So that's the way they title it here. >> All of my family is from came from King David. My generation 13 generations. >> But always on the male side or is it >> Always on the male side. >> Oh, the male side. That's very remarkable. That's very remarkable. So you're a candidate. We have to treat you with >> brothers. I have three other brothers. >> Yeah, okay. Okay. So you have four candidates. So we'll have to treat you with very special uh very special consideration. Now your translation here in English the offspring of your David your servant David may you speedily cause to flourish and raise his glory through your salvation. This is poetical. It's not wrong. poetical. And it avoids a uh linguistic problem which I'll show you when we we I translate it for you literally. For we hope for your salvation all day long. Blessed are you Hashem cause glory
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- 16:07Sometimes people use the word olam haba for the Messianic era because it is a period…
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- 24:08Okay, so that's the Davidic ring. Now, yesterday we talked about acceptance of prayer and I…
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