The Empowerment of Prayer: Unlocking the Power Within Episode 2

What’s said in this shiur

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. >> All righty. Okay. >> So, what um >> today we're going to go into what we call the bakashot, >> the requests part of the amida, what we're requesting, right? We're going to talk about today what some of the things that we request so that we understand what we're requesting. What are we asking God for? And again, the way we're learning it is that I'm reaching in and I'm reaching that I'm reaching in and I'm reaching out. So when I make it when I reach out to God for something, when I reach out to God for something, I'm first reaching into me to remind me that I have the capacity to do this. And then I'm reaching out to God to help me do it. Okay? Again, it's not we're not passive. We're not saying, "God, please, please do everything or assuming we're going to have some miraculous X." We're not. What we're doing is what we're doing is here. Come take a sidedor. Come take a sided. And a >> Okay, you know what? Maybe leave these over there. It'll be easier for people. >> Uh, yeah. Great. Okay. Great. Okay. So again, in the bakashot, it's about reminding myself that I have massive unused capacity and it's reaching out to God to help me get there. So let's go with we're going to skip a few of the with we're going to skip a few of the because I want to go straight into a few of the and we'll come back. Look at the top of page three. You graciously bestow kindness to man and teach mortals understanding. That's a straight English translation. Okay. Give us we plead with you to give us which is wisdom which is understanding.

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