Rebbetzin Shifra Sharfstein--Making Prayer Meaningful (Chabad Georgia Tech and Georgia State)

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educator she has taught students of all ages and backgrounds from all around the world thank you so much for joining us please tell us more about yourself and what you do hi it's fun to be here thank you um i am really privileged to do what i do running a chabad on two college campuses it's the greatest gift to spend so much time with these amazing young jewish students who really inspire us all the time and i also really really meaningful job so that's amazing we're very privileged yes we really love it um i know that one topic that you're really really passionate about talking about is davening praying prayer is such a beautiful and meaningful way to connect to hashem to connect to god but unfortunately there are many people who find it difficult to pray for a variety of reasons and also they're the other people who don't find it important to pray at all so today i would like to talk about the deeper meaning of prayer and also to address some of the challenges it presents to people and to give them some strategies to overcome their obstacles to prayer so to overcome their obstacles to prayer so that they can really and truly connect to their creator so let's start at the beginning can you please talk to us about what prayer really is and what does it have the power to accomplish that's a great question so i really relate to what you're saying know about struggling and finding the meaning in prayer so i think i have to tell you my little journey when it comes to just talking to hashem when i was

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1. 0:33educator she has taught students of all ages and backgrounds from all around the world thank…
2. 4:09and then i got older and i would say woke up even though i was probably…
3. 7:15rushing and i just run through the shema but there's always those feelings of oh what…
4. 11:22who can't see um you just have so much gratitude for the fact that you can…
5. 14:24schedule and fill their day with their priority tasks those people who are truly successful in…
6. 17:59priorities and i'm gonna start my day with consciously thinking and saying moza ani and then…
7. 21:01that really works for me is since i was a little kid i was raised that…
8. 24:08for sure for sure so that would this brings me to the next question because i…
9. 27:42hashem and if we're just going to hope that the romance is always there it ain't…
10. 30:46and i totally i mean i was very worried it was a really scary moment and…

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