Understanding להתפלל | Tefillah Series | Part 4

What’s said in this shiur

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

okay so we're talking about prayer to F and the whole purpose of life as we've been saying all along is an intimate personal authentic relationship with God with AEM with the infinite conscious Divine creator of the universe and the number one way to create a universe uh a universe is through speech but the number one way to create a relationship is through speech it's the same thing so if you want to have a deep real personal authentic relationship we got to speak to each other Ben if we're not talking to each other Ben if we're not talking to each other then you know we don't have a real relationship cuz why speech reveals what's inside I have my thoughts and my emotions and if I want to have an intimate relationship with you you have to know what's going on inside me but it's very hard if I don't speak to you so we share we speak speech is how we communicate commune we become one together speech is how we praise each other how we thank each other how we ask for our needs how we just share about life to each other so that's really what to each other so that's really what is is speaking to God how do you define how do you find prayer speaking to God in order to create a relationship that's it very simple so now we're going to break down the word in Hebrew because if you really want to understand what a word means you have to understand the Hebrew so what's the word for to pray in Hebrew

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2. 1:34and this has been translated as to pray but really we're going to break down the…
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