Thoughts on Prayer

You have written several times that prayer is supposed (according to those who say otherwise) to influence a person, to change them, and to heal their hearts…

Prayer is standing before God – that is, stepping out of the worldly circle, remembering the Creator of the universe, the Giver of the Torah, and standing before Him. Before work in the morning, during, and after.

I have never tried not to pray three times a day. I, in God’s name, observe the halacha. But I believe that indeed, even if a person does not emerge with a fiery-flame-of-holy-flame from every prayer, its action on the part of God’s presence in his life is evident in the spaces of his consciousness and subconsciousness, and if he did not pray, God would be less present in his life, in his consciousness.
He is forced (?) to stand before his Creator and the Giver of the Torah. Only from this thing is he impressed. He remembers God and His commandments. God is present in his life.

I will not go into the whole matter of whether prayer works to fulfill our wishes, and if so, how. My argument is that it has a great impact on the remembrance of God, His kingdom and greatness, for the ordinary Israeli, in everyday life.

It should be added that many of the principles of prayer are related to this point – to cause a person to experience standing before the King.

Indeed, it must be said that there are people for whom this influence is less necessary. Those who are asked all day long to prove the reality of God, remember Him well enough every hour 🙂
The mitzvah is general, given to all the people, the workers, the earners. Just as the Sabbath reminds us that God created the world, so too are the Torah scholars who prove the reality of God with evidence from the creation of the world – commanded to strike.

Perhaps indeed, for Torah scholars who engage in Torah, prayer is less necessary due to this benefit. And this is Rashbi, who does not stop praying.

Although the famous words of Rav Avrom should also be recommended for this: We need engineers with a minimum wage, shoemakers with a minimum wage, cooks with a minimum wage, and even rabbis with a minimum wage…
And in a similar vein – even a rabbi who teaches a general lesson is not certain to always remember the Torah giver who invented the power of argument… 🙂