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Hello Rabbi

Question

Hello Rabbi. A comment regarding the second book on the subject of prayer. In my opinion, even when the Sages developed the idea of prayer, their intention was not to create a system in which a person needs his God like a dog waiting for food from its owner. There is no point in prayer, as in every aspect of the service of God, for it to become a situation in which God serves man; rather, the opposite.
It seems to me that the purpose of prayer is to create dependence on possibility. That is, since the Holy One, blessed be He, can intervene (something that is not impossible even according to your view), this creates an awareness of His greatness, awe, honor, and so on. On the other hand, precisely because in most cases He does not intervene, the situation in which God works for man is avoided.

Answer

Possibly. The question still remains whether that dependence is right or not. It is hard to pray and ask when you know that you will probably not be answered (and all of this only in order to create an awareness of the Creator’s greatness). In any case, I am not under the impression that this was the Sages’ view.

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