Q&A: Prayer
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Prayer
Question
Hello Rabbi Michael,
In your notebooks on faith, you wrote quite a bit that the proofs for the existence of God (at least some of them) are based on an intuition that a person may or may not have.
Can a Jewish person who, during prayer, does not manage to connect to the content and does not believe in it say that this is an indication that he lacks the intuition that God exists?
Answer
Not necessarily. Faith is an intellectual matter, and therefore it does not necessarily find expression in an emotional connection to prayer.