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Ox, Donkey or Human? The Language of Emuna, Part 2

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

A discussion on the nature of prayer and divine will in Jewish thought.

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Amuna [singing] my Lord. [music] Amuna, it's from you my Lord. It's [music] all [singing] good, my Lord. Oh [music] Lord. [singing] >> Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Broady with Amuna Hour number 237 Hashem and we're learning the language of Amuna. This is second lesson language amuna. Tonight's lesson is entitled ox, donkey or human. Well, as an introduction to tonight's lesson, bizm. The first of the 13 principles of amuna that we go all over that we internalize it. So, it's part of blood in our veins. It says, "I believe with complete belief that the creator, blessed be he, is creator and director of all the creations and he alone did, does and will do every deed." So you see the creator controls everything, Hashem does everything, Hashem's responsible for everything. So we ask ourselves a question since Hashem did, does and will do everything, then why pray? What's left for us to pray about? Everything is predetermined. So what difference do prayers make? That's a people a question a lot of people ask and it's a fantastic question and we're going to answer it tonight. So first I want to tell you what about the Torah says about the prayer regiment. The to Torah talks about how prayer won wars in several different generations several circumstances and they always had every generation has prayer regiment. And what people don't understand that they think the might of my right hand that wins wars. The Torah says otherwise. And we'll see exactly where it says that. Okay. So Moses commanded the 12 tribes of Israel. He said, "Mobilize men from among you for the army so they should fight Midian and execute Hashem's vengeance on Midian." And we see Moses had the draft. Okay, the draft is

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  2. 4:39and mobilizing but not only that the mid says that the prayer troops like I mentioned…
  3. 9:17120th birthday. So if the soul is not really reinforced with strong amuna then it's going…
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  5. 18:27delivery wasn't successful. So go back to the next prayer and say every single word with…
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  9. 37:18the the saddaka generation, what prayers with his prayers that that his daughter didn't have oil…
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