Morning Prayer Tips for Connection: Introduction - Rabbi Nachum Chaimowitz

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Good day to everyone. The whys of Judaism. We're going to look today at the why of prayer. What's the purpose in prayer? And I want to share with you some practical applications. Practical tips of how we can get our prayer to accomplish its purpose. One of the greatest gifts that God has given man is the ability to pray. The fact that we can connect to him through prayer doesn't even make sense. Cuz think about it. We believe that God is infinite. That means he has no limitation. No boundaries. We can We can't even grasp him. Yet at the same time he says that we have the ability to connect to him through prayer. We're finite, he's infinite. How does that work? Yet at the same time according to what we have passed down in traditional Jewish belief, it works. As it says in the verse in Devarim Kee mee godol Who is such a great nation Asher Elohim Krov Elov that God is close to them. B'chol Krov Elov Every time, all the time, whenever we call out to God, God answers our prayers. You might ask, "Well, I don't know we see God answering my prayers." But it says in the Medrish, there are some prayers that get answered after 40 days. Some after 30 days, some after 20. Some after less, some in one day. So the reason we don't see answers to our prayers because they don't always get answered in the same day. However, every prayer is accepted. In the last few generations, there were leaders who said that there were even prayers that might not be accepted for hundreds of years. But eventually, every prayer is accepted. So, what type of gift is this that God

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1. 0:15Good day to everyone. The whys of Judaism. We're going to look today at the why…
2. 1:16As it says in the verse in Devarim Kee mee godol Who is such a great…
3. 2:17gave us? That he's so lofty and infinite and he could turn down to us and…
4. 3:20and it a parable, it's comparable to a king who had two sons. One son he…
5. 4:20What you need to know is that this is very different in our understanding of prayer…
6. 5:51he answers me, so he's giving to me. But then what am I giving to him?…
7. 6:54in Kabbalah Sefirah that God created a sort of in-between level. It's called the 10 Sefirot.…
8. 7:56prayers practically that we should be able to be ready at the time of prayer to…
9. 8:58comes home and they're very tired, best thing is just don't lie down before you daven…
10. 9:58before the shliach tzibbur is about to daven? You're sort of thinking, "Well, I didn't really…

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