Thank you for this video. It will hopefully help (me) to improve on praying. On a note with prayer, just like anything spiritual, it’s all similar to muscles/working out. Starting with all at once will many times lead to nothing or barely anything. In the opposite, like the speaker mentions, starting with a little and adding to it over time is a much better way to accomplish the goal at hand.
"prayer has no set language"-- that stuck with me, reminding me of something i heard from someone, but i can't recall who. but what they said was, "G-d understands your sighs", "a prayer can be a sigh".
Thank you so much for all your hard work and very interessting Videos! Could you also do a video how to use a siddur? And about hand washing? Any way i really benefit from your content so much!
Kol HaKavod Rabbi. Please do not forget to mention the importance of hitbodedut in talking with Hashem. This is an essential addition to the avodah of prayer. "Hitbodedut" is the highest level of all, which means to set aside an hour or more to seclude herself (your soul) in a room or in a field, and to have express herself (your soul) in dialogue with her Creator, with claims, words of favor, and to request and supplicate before G-d that G-d should bring her close to G-d's service. And this prayer should be in one's native language..." - Rebbe Nachman Likuetei Moharan 25:1 // Rebbe Nachman derived his tradition for hitbodedut from his great grandfather the Baal Shem Tov who started practicing this hitbodedut at an early age:)
What an insightful discussion of connecting with HaShem! Rabbi Wolf, thank you for sharing. You address nearly all of the common questions which modern people ask. Why pray? What is the purpose of praying? What is the reason for the structured prayers in Judaism? And much more. Todah raba!
