Prayers – a ritual of worship
Good night.
I would be happy for His Honor to address the custom of daily prayers, which seems like a rather exhausting ritual that does not advance us anywhere in life. Whether the fathers corrected this or whether they are against the sacrifices (who themselves were against taking the prayers out of the hearts of the worshipers of the Lord and the prayers out of the hearts as well…) in the end, it is a restatement of a text over and over and over again.
Beyond the fact that there is no proof that prayers are accepted (it seems to me that the rabbi has written quite a bit about all this in the past), even if the goal is the prayer itself, my personal feeling is that repeating and praying the same standing prayer three times a day (regularly), the same requests according to a fixed formula, feels idiotic, not to mention several dozen pages of the same text every morning in morning prayer with teary eyes.
Personally, for me, prayer is a kind of drudgery, like grinding flour or pumping water in a bucket. I don't feel like my prayers are being answered and I don't feel any value from the act itself.
Moreover, the very act of worshiping God in such a systematic way seems to me like forced submission to a narcissistic and honor-sick dictator.
It's much more appropriate for me not to pray regularly, but rather to pray when necessary, when I feel like praying, on special occasions, and so on, so that it doesn't become some compulsive habit of a forced ritual that feels to me like it even disrespects the person to whom the prayer is directed.
Does Your Honor agree that there is room for giving up regular daily prayers? Since I myself rarely pray because of these feelings, is this an act (or rather, a non-act) that is wrong?
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