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Chayei Sarah 5775Volume 11 · Issue 7
Our Father Our King
soul passes when it departs from the body is by way of the Doubled Cave where the Fathers and Mothers were interred…. Likewise, all our prayers, when they ascend on high, they ascend by way of the Doubled Cave.”
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Vayeira 5765Volume 10 · Issue 6
Emulative Progeny
…tage from our Fathers, which means that the Fathers are with us through our prayers. Another opinion is that we have the prayers from the Temple Service of the Continual Offering. The reason is that prayer derives from the…
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Toldos 5771Volume 7 · Issue 9
In Perfect Alignment
The sages disputed whether the prayers were instituted by the Fathers or corresponding to the Continual Offerings (Berachos 26b). The Rambam cites both opinions (Hilchos Tefillah 1:5; Hilchos Melachim 9:1).
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Vayeitzei 5760Volume 20 · Issue 12
Leaving an Impression
In continuation, “He encountered the place.” Rashi cites the Talmud that the word vayiphga, translated here as encountered, is often used in the sense of prayer, and it teaches that Yaakov Avinu instituted a new unprecedented prayer—the Evening Prayer (Yirmiyahu 7:16; Berachos 26b).
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Pinchas 5771Volume 7 · Issue 36
Plea of the Pauper
We find one other concept that bears this title as well. The Talmud states that women are obligated to pray because prayer is mercy (Berachos 20b). Simply, this means that prayer is called mercy. This is understandable since the entire essence of prayer is the arousing of mercy. But this is inapplicable to Torah. Why then is it called mercy?
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Lech Lecha 5765Volume 10 · Issue 5
Rain of the Heavens
By the question, the Mishnah means the prayer that begins this evening in Israel, “Provide dew and rain for blessing over the surface of the ground.” The prayer of rain is called a question, and the earlier commentators generally refer to it as such. Indeed, it is essentially the only prayer referenced
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Vayeitzei 5766Volume 2 · Issue 11
The Legacy of the Fathers
task for which he was originally sent (Megillah 17a; Rashi to Bereshis 28:9).
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Beshalach 5763Volume 10 · Issue 17
Faith in Action
with his hands of faith until the setting of the sun” (Shemos 17:8-12). To explain these final words, Rashi writes, “And Moshe was with his hands of faith spread heavenward in faithful and directed prayer.” The simple definition of his wording is obscure and requires further study.
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Yisro 5750Volume 14 · Issue 20
Standing at Sinai
Incongruous Prayer
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Lech Lecha 5750Volume 14 · Issue 7
At the Heights of the Universe
eating the limb of a live being…, and thus there were seven commandments. And so it was throughout the world until Avraham. Avraham came and he was commanded in addition to these regarding circumcision, and he prayed the Morning Prayer….”
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Tetzaveh 5763Volume 10 · Issue 21
Gaining the Upper Hand
…lves and as explained by the sages, the concept of his elevated hands is prayer. In the words of Rashi: “And Moshe was with his hands of faith spread heavenward in faithful and directed prayer.” And the sages say…
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Vayeitzei 5772Volume 8 · Issue 9
Faith in the Nights
Rashi continues and explains that the word vayifga, translated here as, “he encountered,” is understood by the sages as an expression of prayer, as in (Yirmiyahu 7:16), “Do not entreat me,” where the same root word is used. From this, we learn that Yaakov instituted the Evening Prayer.
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Chayei Sarah 5747Volume 13 · Issue 9
Confidence Beyond the Possible
Prayer for the Impossible
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Vayeitzei 5770Volume 6 · Issue 9
Oneness of Israel
The Evening Prayer
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Chayei Sarah 5765Volume 10 · Issue 7
The Pearl of Avraham
says (ibid. 29:31), “And God saw that Leah was hated and He opened her womb and Rachel was barren.” Why was it so? Why were our ancestors barren? “It was because the Holy Blessed One longs for the prayer of the righteous.” In other words, the Creator made them barren so that they would pray, because, as it says (Mishlei 15:8), “His will is the prayer of the just.”
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Ki Savo 5761Volume 22 · Issue 3
Prayers of Forgiveness
The Levush (Orach Chaim 581:1) explains that these prayers were instituted to resemble our daily prayers. In the Afternoon Prayer as well, we begin with Ashrei and half Kaddish, followed by the Shemoneh Esrei Prayer, confession, and Kaddish Tiskabal.
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Toldos 5750Volume 14 · Issue 10
Perfect Synchronicity
hidden and sealed in those secret vaults underground—until the will emanates from before the Creator to uplift it once again and reveal His Divine Presence to us and upon us, and fulfill what we say in the Musaf Prayer of Festivals, “Appear and become uplifted over us in the sight of every living being.”
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Bamidbar 5767Volume 3 · Issue 31
Shavuos: Birth of King David
The Talmud considers Shavuos a second Rosh Hashanah (Megillah 31b). Of Rosh Hashanah itself, we say in our prayers, “This day is the beginning of Your works, the remembrance of the First Day,” which means the day of man’s creation, the Sixth Day of creation. Man’s creation
