Why the Amidah Is the Heart of Jewish Prayer | Tefillah Series

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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.

So, we're continuing on our journey what we're doing. And if you've missed any classes which you have, they're all on YouTube so you can catch up. But basically, we're talking about tilah translated as prayer isn't prayer. Tila is intimate communication with infinite loving divine consciousness. hopefully from the deepest part of you which is an expression a finite expression of infinite divine finite expression of infinite divine loving consciousness which is you that's your [Music] essence what's your name it's cool so fine so we'll be going through the fact that there are two typ types of prayer. One type of prayer is called informal prayer. Informal tila, which means just talk to God, your best friend. Hey man, struggling, upset with friend. Hey man, struggling, upset with you. You can say you're upset to Hashem. If you feel upset with Hashem and then after you've expressed how upset you are with Hashem, then you can say, "Okay, I'm sorry, Hashem. I realize that really if I understood everything, if I had an infinite viewpoint, then I wouldn't be upset, but I'm a human." And Hashem says, "That's okay. I get it. It's all right." So, you can have a just talk to Hashem whenever you like. And then we said there's something called formal prayer which is from the sidedor the prayer book and we said that doesn't make any sense because how can there be something called formal personal intimate authentic communication with

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4. 7:14I'm standing in my way, I try to feel that I'm literally I'm talking to God…
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