Prayers Are Never in Vain - Rabbi Zamir Cohen in English (AI)

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

when Abraham prays to God to save the city of Sodom he asks for the city to be saved in the Merit of 50 righteous people Hashem responds that there aren't 50 so Abraham asks them to be saved in the Merit of 45 tadim Abraham continues to negotiate with Hashem until he goes down to 10 righteous people our sages ask the following question obviously God knows the future he knows that Abraham will keep negotiating from 50 down till 10 why was there this lengthy dialogue where Abraham had to keep asking and bargaining for 50 then 45 then 40 and so on our sages learned from here a tremendous insight to the power of prayer Hashem knew that indeed this dispute would end with nothing and the prayer of Abraham would not be accepted for there were not even 10 righteous people in the land of Sodom though there is a concept that no prayer goes unanswered when a person prays for something even if they they see the prayer was not accepted and what they

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1. 0:00when Abraham prays to God to save the city of Sodom he asks for the city…
2. 0:31where Abraham had to keep asking and bargaining for 50 then 45 then 40 and so…
3. 1:02asked for did not happen but the prayer is not in vain Hashem keeps this prayer…
4. 1:33the presence awaiting him in heaven it's like a pipeline waiting with abundance a person's prayers…

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