To Maximize the Amidah I

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

Okay. So we're our topic is to and what we want to do is we want to understand hey there you go. We want to understand we want to understand the amida right >> very important prayer. Does everybody have a pen? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Everybody has a sunset. Okay. Beautiful. So what I want to do is I want to go through each of the of the Amida and I want to learn of the of the Amida and I want to learn them together. Now what we did was we translated them. We gave it the English translation, right? And you're going to tell me when we learn it together, you're going to say, "Well, that's not what the English translation says." And sometimes it won't be. Sometimes it won't be what the English translation says. But that's okay because we're going to go with the interpretation more than the translation as a tool, a building block. As we've been saying, prayer is a building block. It's a massively powerful tool. So when we massively powerful tool. So when we start the right, we say what does that mean? So what the translation means is open my lips and my mouth will speak your praises. But what the the interpretation is and this is what I'd like you to write down and own is give like you to write down and own is give me the words from we're going to we're going to switch the shin and the sin or the sin and the s and give me the saf give me the words to find the so that I can express all that I want to give me the words and then

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1. 0:02Okay. So we're our topic is to and what we want to do is we want…
2. 5:13I say that sentence and then I stop. I stop and I gather my thoughts. Okay.…
3. 10:23connected. The sea the oceans they operate separate than the deserts and um the gods of…
4. 15:58yourself to everybody it would have collapsed because it's not real and the truth of the…
5. 21:12I'm not exaggerating. He put everybody else before his wife. So, they came to me and…
6. 26:52told you 10 times already. I'm going to tell you another 50 times. The way to…
7. 33:05breaking through my limited brain and breaking into another place and prayer is what does that…
8. 38:51the same and to collect and organize and do the same process we're doing now is…
9. 44:39constantly reacquiring. You're renewing. You're rebuilding. It's a dynamic process, right? Present tense. It didn't say…
10. 50:01king will expend us help based on what we deserve to get and will expend us…

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