PRAYER: The More You Know The More You'll Enjoy

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

okay so we're speaking today about a super important topic which is objectives of prayer prayer what do you accomplish when you pray what are you doing and the example we always like to give is if someone gives you a very boring job which is um let me here's here's a table a bunch of wooden blocks turn the blocks over again and again and again right then uh and and just keep on doing it right how much you're gonna pay you thousand dollars an hour so if you know you're making a thousand dollars an hour you work eight hours yeah that's eight thousand dollars in a day that's very good you wouldn't be upset right let's say there's another person doing the same job but she doesn't know she's doing that job he has no idea he should they don't know that they're getting paid a thousand dollars an hour so what would you do like oh it's torture so when you dive and you don't know what you're doing it's totally boring it's totally frustrating you're like what am i doing like every day yeah but if you dive in a way that's really you know like oh chris brawlhall like what am i accomplishing when i dive in it's completely different planet everything's totally different so that's what we're going to speak about today the objectives of dominating what do you accomplish when you pray so the first

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1. 0:00okay so we're speaking today about a super important topic which is objectives of prayer prayer…
2. 3:11window like that's trust it's a feeling of hashem you're taking care of me now when…
3. 6:21have a mitzvah do i make kitties on friday night yes it's a mitzvah i make…
4. 9:26not just one request it's more than one you say you're asking for three right there…
5. 12:38tissues you're doing the midfield eraser of the halaq the bedrock we shall walk in his…
6. 15:46means the whole jewish people they just you don't realize what you're doing you're like that…
7. 18:54running after us last week's partial bashala and we're like oh he's coming after us oh…
8. 22:02start all over to get the the papers that she needs it's a bureaucratic pain not…
9. 25:11back seat yeah and you're driving you're driving on the way to the bris you're and…
10. 28:19people need clarity other people need redemption yerushalayim the base of mig-dish other people not just…

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