If I Butcher Davening, Should I Just Stop?

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

Hi, this is Dov Baron with our question and answer series. I always end up rushing through davening, stumbling over words, losing my place, and I'm not good with pronunciation, even though I know how important davening is. I usually finish feeling frustrated because I just butchered the prayer real bad. Would it be better not to daven at all as a female? Would you have any tips for how I can improve? Yes. Let's be very clear. Everybody has a yetzer hara and a yetzer tov. tov. There's a little voice inside of you telling you maybe you shouldn't daven. Who do you think is saying that? >> [laughter] >> Is it a good witch or a bad witch? Yeah? So, um definitely you should daven. But, if as you point out, right? I don't have a chiyuv of tefillah, so then you should say uh brachas in the morning, right? Those are pretty easy. Easy to Those are pretty easy. Easy to concentrate, take your time, and then say Shemoneh Esrei. That's it. And people ask me sometimes, I'm thinking of becoming a speaker, what should I do? I said, "Speak." That's the best way to become a speaker. The more you speak, the better you'll become. My father, alav hashalom, used to say, "The reason you get a driver's license is so that you then are able to go out and learn how to drive." But, when you get your driver's license, you don't know how to drive. It takes years of driving experience to get good

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov Baron with our question and answer series. I always end up rushing…
2. 0:30tov. There's a little voice inside of you telling you maybe you shouldn't daven. Who do…
3. 1:00Those are pretty easy. Easy to concentrate, take your time, and then say Shemoneh Esrei. That's…
4. 1:32years of driving experience to get good at it. Yeah? Malcolm Gladwell wrote a wrote a…
5. 2:04If that's your problem, just focus on Shmoneh Esrei. That is tfilah. Everything else is, you…
6. 2:35of someone saying the Shmoneh Esrei slowly and play it along with you as you say…
7. 3:05work only on Shmoneh Esrei, Kriyat Shema, the first brachot in the morning. Make sure you…
8. 3:35the first bracha correctly, and then mumble through the rest. I don't care. And then, when…
9. 4:06And that's why the tortoise was able to beat the hare in one of the most…
10. 4:36You have to be the best at the end of your life when you look back.…

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