Answer to the concept of prayer

Hello.
A few general comments, because it’s hard to extend.
1. If we are discussing a transition to the “other side,” it seems to me that matters of prayer cannot be the focus of the discussion. First, we need to discuss whether there is a God and whether He has revealed Himself and given commandments. If so, then all the rest (such as difficulties regarding prayer) are questions that require an answer but are not decisive. If not, then the entire system is wrong and again there is no point in discussing prayer.
2. Regarding concepts of prayer, one must distinguish between what is written in the Torah and what the sages wrote. What the sages said is their own interpretation and they are not necessarily right. In my personal opinion, in many things they were wrong. In other things they wrote their own interpretation without basis. Maybe it is true, but they have no way of knowing it.
3. In the margins, I will note that God’s involvement in the world has diminished over the generations, and in my opinion today He is not involved, neither for good nor for the better. I expanded on this in my book No Man Has Dominion Over the Spirit and the Earth. This suggests that these difficulties only deal with the past, when God was involved. Now I will address the difficulties themselves:
A. When you ask God for something, He can grant it even if you don’t deserve it. The same is true when you ask someone for something. It seems like He should have given it to you even without you asking, but He only gives if you ask. So God is like that too. The reward of a righteous person is that he has the right to have his requests granted. As in the legends, we find that a person saved a fish or a demon from a bottle and the latter tells him in return that his requests will be granted.
B. Truly, other actions can also help a person to respond, not just prayer. Why does it say that only prayer does this?
C. Prayer can indeed bring other results as well. Who said that prayer is necessarily answered precisely by fulfilling the need for which the person asked? On the contrary, Thos writes in several places regarding ‘prayer contemplation’ that there is a contradiction between issues: one sees it as a negative matter and the others as positive. They explain that positive prayer contemplation is an intention in prayer, and negative prayer contemplation is when a person expects his prayer to be answered.