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I once repeated a manificent thought which Rav Shimshon related regarding Tefiloh being “good to the last drop”. Here is another vignette he once shared with us regarding Tefiloh…(it is possible he was talking about a story that happened to himself…) He said: “Imagine your washing machine breaks down and your wife asks you for [...]

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Chazzal in the Medrashim (Rashi also mentions this in Parshas Va’eschanan) tell us that there are 10 different types of Tefilos that we can be mispallel to Hashem with. Chazzal are talking here about the mode of the supplication itself and not about the actual content of the Tefiloh. This is to say, that there are 10 different [...]

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Parshas Vayechi “Asher lakachti m’yad ha’emori b’charbi u’bkashti” (Chaf Beis) The targum on this Pasuk defines the word B’charbi as “Tzalusi – Prayer” and the word “B’kashti as “Vahusi – Supplication”. What are the differences between these two modes of prayer? Our precious Siddur and seder Hatefiloh which was enacted by the Anshei Knesses Hagedolah [...]

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I thought of a Chiddush this morning during Shacharis. Chazzal teach us that there is no such thing as a prayer going unanswered. Hashem always answers each and every one of our Tefilos. Although sometimes, the answer is not the one that we wanted to hear. Someone once complained to a Gadol in Yiddish; “Ich daven [...]

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