I didn’t explain myself well: my intention regarding a prohibition on public supplication is only from the moral aspect, while it seems to me that it is impossible to forbid an individual person from pleading, precisely because supplication is spontaneous. It is impossible to forbid supplication, just as it is impossible to forbid faith.

It’s impossible to forbid anyone from pleading, and that includes a public as well. The only question is whether it helps or not.

Good morning to you, Michi.
I’m returning to your first answer:
The fact that some particular supplication was not answered proves nothing. There can be many considerations either way. This is an example of the law of small numbers, which I discussed in my column here.
It seems to me that even if we assume that not all those slaughtered in the Holocaust pleaded for salvation, but only one-sixth of them, does a million souls in such a case fall under the definition of “small numbers”?
Or perhaps—and this is very, very possible!—I did not properly understand what you meant.
As for the prohibition on supplication—my intention is to prohibit institutionalized supplication. It seems to me that a decision [or recommendation] should be accepted on this by the religious establishment, that out of identification with the holy martyrs of the Holocaust we refrain from pleading publicly for our own lives, and each person is free to act in whatever way he sees fit in order to try to avert some evil decree that seems to be hovering over our heads.
Let us hope there will never again be such situations, but even “ordinary” natural disasters can be devastating.

Those are indeed small numbers. Take, for example, a situation in which you see that all the horses on some island are black (there are masses of horses there). Is it correct to conclude from this that all the horses in the world are black? That would be a hasty conclusion, because all the horses you saw are horses from one island, and perhaps that is a special population of horses, so one should not infer from it about all horses. In the Holocaust, masses of people were not answered. Does that mean that supplications are not answered? Not necessarily, since this is a collection of masses of people in one particular situation. It may be that the Holy One, Blessed be He decided on the Holocaust, and therefore at that time did not respond to the supplications. One cannot learn from there about all situations and all people. This is one special case, even if it involved masses of people. In that sense, this is still a case of the “law of small numbers.”
I don’t really understand the point of forbidding supplications. This is a democratic state, and anyone who wants can plead as much as he likes before whomever he wants. Admittedly, the chance of being answered is probably slim, as you know from my position. I’m only claiming that your argument is problematic, but the conclusion—that supplications are usually not answered—is entirely acceptable to me, and as you know I’m not as religiously observant as you are. In my opinion, the Holy One, Blessed be He usually does not answer, neither the individual nor the public.