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Bo 5773Volume 9 · Issue 18
Searching for Love
The Ramban, whom we will quote shortly, states that the Name Ekyeh corresponds to prayer and the Name Havayah corresponds to Torah.
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Shemos 5750Volume 14 · Issue 16
Sheep Among Wolves
final aspect of revelation. Parallel to their aspects of redemption, the Fathers instituted our three daily prayers (Berachos 26b; Hilchos Melachim 9:1).
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Lech Lecha 5773Volume 9 · Issue 7
Question of Rain
This week in Israel, we began the prayer of rain: “And provide dew and rain for blessing over the surface of the ground.” The sages refer to this prayer as a question. In one version, the Mishnah states (Berachos 33a), “We mention the power of rain in the Blessing of Resurrection, and the question in the Blessing of Years,” or in another version (Ta’anis 2a), “…and we ask in the Blessing of Years.”
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Beshalach 5775Volume 11 · Issue 15
Exclusive Nature
other praises in the world, and she,” either the Assembly of Israel or the Divine Presence, “is not rectified by any of them as she is rectified by this praise. For this reason, it is juxtaposed with the Seated Prayer, as we have established.”
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Vaeira 5750Volume 14 · Issue 17
Scepter of the King
…This teaches a practical law. There are two categories of interruption during prayer. One is a kingdom that insinuates itself in the midst of prayer, another is a snake. Each comes to impede the concept of prayer in its own…
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Beshalach 5750Volume 14 · Issue 19
Ultimate Fruition
This is how the one nation of the world is revealed. Of this, we say in the Afternoon Prayer of the Sabbath, “You are One, and Your Name is One, and who is like Your people Israel, the nation of oneness in the world.”
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Bo 5754Volume 16 · Issue 17
Gateway of Faith
The concept is that rainfall is the response from on high to the prayer of man. The very essence of rain is the connection of heaven and earth, and no mutual connection is ever feasible without the will for the connection. There is bestowal to the recipients below only inasmuch as they turn their
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Bo 5761Volume 21 · Issue 18
Unequivocal Future
There is a complete and great system called fundamentals. Most of the earlier commentators concur with it, and the custom among Israel is to recite the Thirteen Fundamentals of Faith as they appear in our prayer books.
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Vaeira 5748Volume 13 · Issue 18
Externalization of Exile
The Rambam writes (Hilchos Tefillah 2:1), “In the days of Rabban Gamliel, heretics abounded among Israel.” All know who they are. The earlier commentators identify them as all the missionaries of the one whom we refer to as osso ha’ish, that man. “They oppressed Israel
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Shemos 5769Volume 5 · Issue 14
Seeking our Identity
In the Shemoneh Esrei Prayer, in the blessing of the Fathers, we praise the Creator and state, “He recalls the kindness of the Fathers and brings a redeemer for their children’s children for the sake of His Name with love.” In other words
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Yom Kippur 5774Volume 10 · Issue 4
Behind the Smokescreen
On the Sabbath and on Festivals, the middle blessing of the Shemoneh Esrei Prayer focuses on the sanctity of the day. On the Sabbath, the blessing concludes, “Blessed are You, God, Who sanctifies the Sabbath,” and on Festivals, “Who sanctifies Israel and the times.”
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Toldos 5775Volume 11 · Issue 8
Hear Our Plight
…and reigned in the Land, and placed decrees upon us, as we say in the prayer of Al HaNissim, “When the wicked Greek Empire rose over Your nation Israel….” In the end, the Empire of Edom reigned over us—at our…
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Vayeishev 5750Volume 14 · Issue 12
Eternal Guardian of Kindness
Fathers, is the prayers that they originated and instituted (Berachos 26b). Our thrice-daily prayers are due to their ordinance. Although our prayers parallel the Continual Offerings, they are also from the Fathers (Hilchos Melachim 9:1; Hilchos Tefillah 1:5-6). We have them as Divine Service, like the offerings, and we have them as a commandment from the Fathers.
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Rosh Hashanah 5757Volume 18 · Issue 4
Mercy in Judgment
The judgment of Rosh Hashanah is fearsome and terrifying, as we say in the prayer of Unesaneh Tokef. It concerns life itself as well as every detail. Who will live and who will die? Who will be at peace and who will be tormented? Who will be impoverished and who will become wealthy? All this is judged on this day.
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Vayeitzei 5758Volume 19 · Issue 10
Like Daybreak
Our three daily prayers were established by the Fathers, and Yaakov Avinu established the Evening Prayer. This derives from what it says when he reached the site of the Holy Temple (Bereshis 28:11), “He encountered the place.”
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Shoftim 5771Volume 8 · Issue 1
Destiny of the Year
The primary time for prayer is during the Ten Days of Repentance, as the Rambam states (Hilchos Teshuvah 3:4). Those days, in and of themselves, require an abundance of prayers, pleas of forgiveness, and supplications of grace. In other words, the obligation of prayer during
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Naso 5776Volume 12 · Issue 34
Soul of Sinai
…ve and who will not live, and so on, as we say in the well-known prayer of Unesaneh Tokef, so too, on the Festival of Shavuos, the judgment must be for life itself. Yet, the Talmud considers it…
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Vayeishev Erev Chanukah 5770Volume 6 · Issue 11
Redemption of Thanks
…he recital of Al HaNissim among the laws of Chanukah, only among the laws of prayer (Hilchos Tefillah 2:13) and among the laws of blessings regarding Grace After Meals (Hilchos Berachos 2:6). If it relates to the very ordinance…
