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Yanuka in English - Prayer

Rabbi Harry Rozenberg

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Okay, here we go. We are in the safer of the Yuka. Now we're in prayer number one through proper prayer. If you know how to pray properly, then you human will become worthy to closen yourself to the blessed God. You want to get close to God? Yeah. It happens through prayer. And if you know how to properly pray, you can receive a new intellect, a new way of thinking. And you can make yourself a new creation. You can recreate your whole entire self, the way you think and your whole essence just from prayer. That's because when a person prays, that person nullifies him or herself out before God. We know about the nullification stuff. We just learned it. So yeah, prayer is the mechanism to nullify yourself before God. And in order to pray properly, and now we're quoting the Gomorrah and You have to learn the what is in order to pray properly. You have to know what prayer is like. What are what is happening? What is what are the logistics here? What is the the mechanisms? What is prayer? We have to know the essence of prayer like what is it what is it composed of? Like what is what's happening here? Is this just like a power trip that some rabbis said we should be praying? Like what's happening? We have to understand how prayer is a mechanism of serving God. It is a way to serve God. We have to understand says I'll give you a good piece of advice. You should dibble dabble and involve yourself in learning the safer called the gateways of prayer which is written by the holy rabbi the may his merits rest upon us. Okay, everyone should get that safer. I I I personally have not learned that safer yet but I personally would like to. Whoever wants to have a study session with me in the safer, you're welcome to order one to my house, order one to your house. We will study it together. Number two, oh maybe it's on safari. I will check Safari out too. Number two, the prayers that were organized for us and redacted by the members of the great assembly which was you know the guys 2,500 years ago at the time of of uh the destruction of the first temple we had a court of the great assembly of men. These were the guys who knew the sages and decided the laws. It was incredible. And when the temple was destroyed, we were going to lose everything. So they started to write down all the things, how to pray, how to how you know all all these cod they started codifying things. So when they wrote down the prayers for us, their prayers that they wrote down has a tremendous effect, very powerful, very very very great powers. these prayers that the that they wrote down for us. And when you pray in the right way, when you're properly praying, when you properly pray, every letter, every word that you say can actually manifest itself immediately, that split second, if you pray properly, the thing you pray for can happen instantaneously. Like it says in the Gomorrah initi when would pray he would say like hashem please bring the winds the winds returned the winds came the second he would pray for the winds the winds would come and when and when would say please hashem bring rains upon us gash rains would come he would be like you go outside no rain some be like, "Time to rain." Boom. Rain would come. And if would only have just said, "Let the dead come to life." Guess what? The dead would have come to life. He didn't say that cuz he didn't want to bring back the dead. Seems that's the case. And there's a lot of questions. I'm not going to We should ask the question. Does that mean the didn't say that this? I don't think so. But it seems that for sure there's words that Rebi Kia could have said out of his mouth that would have caused a dead person to come back to life. Like a spell. It's a power. It's so cool. Number three, the most important thing for God is the heart. Your desires and your wantings. God cares mostly about what you want, where your heart is, and what you desire. Oh, let's read that your heart and your desire should be towards uh God in a in a connection that's truthful to to the blessed God. imigra and you shouldn't think that Hashem will only save you if you if you like read a read a lot and say a lot of tahillum and you say the whole book and you're just constantly doing things to like make God like atoning for your sins like no it's not a it's not a quantity matter it's not how much you're doing because you can come close to God with just one piece to tell him just one one chapter. You don't have to read the whole book. Someone's like, "Oh, let me just sit there, read the whole book. Oh, I'm done now. God's going to forgive me." No, your heart didn't matter. That guy who read one verse with a real heart, he gets more atonement than you who read the whole book. It's not a quantity game. This guy who read one chapter is going to have more salvation than the guy who read the whole entire book of Tillm. Because there's two guys doing the same thing, but one has a heart. That's really locked in because Hashem is searching out for the hearts. God's looking for our hearts. That's it. Number four. In the former generations, there was simple people and they would read from the sitter. They would read from the prayer book from a place of understanding and contemplation where they didn't even really understand the letters and the words of the prayer. They were just saying it because they knew they had to say it, but they were doing it so purely and innocently. and their prayers were desired and beloved because their hearts were correct and pure and they had the right desires that they were coming to appease and and make and please the blessed God. So it's like you didn't even know what you were saying but how did it work? Because God saw that you wanted to appease him and that's why you were doing it. It was just your intentions. God sees your intentions. So it's like you could have a guy who doesn't even know Hebrew, who doesn't know how to read the prayers. He's going to try. God's going to consider your prayer more accepted than the guy who could read every single word and say it and understand it. Just cuz where your heart is. Number five, a part of the service of prayer in our prayers is giving thanks, is being grateful. That's part of prayer, which is the purpose of the creation is to be grateful and give thanks. Purpose of the creation is to give thanks to God and to praise him. That's why we're here. And that is why the Hashem created the world in the first place in order that we should praise him. That's why we're here. That's the whole thing. And in the future, the Inuka says when the Msiah comes, basically in the future that's going to come, everyone on the whole planet is going to walk around praising God all day consistently. Like we're just going to be thanking God all day and every single thing and and aspect of the creation, we're just going to be thankful to God. People are just going to be peeking in gratitude and thankfulness to God in the future. So cool. Number six. When a human wants to do something that will chill out God, to bring God a calm spirit to like make God happy. You want to do something for God. When you do something that you know God will appreciate and enjoy through your creator, then what happens? You tried to make God happy. All of a sudden now a string of a string of like uh kindness and and uh and love from from the creator comes out for towards you. You now activated a it says a string a string of of kindness and charity and love from the creator comes towards you. You got a a string connected to you now of sounds like we all need that string in our lives. Let's make hashem happy. And at that point all you you will lose all the accusing forces and the satanic energies trying to bring judgments on you and the all the damaging forces and the harmful forces that are in your life causing you to suffer. It all gets removed. Why? Cuz your goal was to make God happy. If that's your goal, God's not going to give you hardships. We're going to give an analogy now. Someone walks into a house, a very big mansion of a very rich guy. You're in the house, you know, it's like, let's say uh there's a kdish in someone's house and it's a very rich guy and they host the kittish and there's employees there and staff. Oh, let's know. And you're there and you see and you want to get a special bottle of wine and you're like, "Oh, I know where the wine is. Let me go to the cabinet here. I'm going to get that bottle of wine. It happens to be the house that I'm in for this kiddish is a rich guy, but he's my best friend. He doesn't care if I go get that wine. He I we got this relationship unlocked. So you're like, I always am here taking wine from this cabinet. So you go to the cabinet, you take the wine at the kdish. So for sure all the guards and the waiters and everyone on the staff, they're going to like be like angry and and and and like bug out and strict with this guy to say, "Hey, you can't go in there. That's that's the owner's zone. That's privately locked off area. Like who do you think you are going into this area? It's locked off. It's not appropriate." And someone else sees you getting called out by the staff. And then the guy's like, "Ah, guys, chill out. That's his best friend. That's the Palabi's best friend. That's his That's the guy. He He can go. He's his best friend. Madish love." So right away, all these servants …

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