All posts in: Prayer

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  Prayer

  7 years ago

  Minyan man

  Throughout the year Rabbis stress the importance of praying with a Minyan. What is so important about praying in a quorum of ten other people? I once heard Rabbi ..

  Written by Anonymous
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• Prayer

  7 years ago

  One who seeks Repentance’

  talking about the brachah in the amidah for “desires teshuvah-…harotze biteshuva)” – the 4th one; kabbalistically there are 7 heavens, with ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  Beautiful Vort Re: Brochos!!

        I heard this Vort b’shem Rav Ginsburg (Michlala Sem and Netiv Aryeh), He said it in the name of Ramban When we say Brochos on food and most ..

  Written by Ben Rose
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  The Shema : “And It shall be for You as Tzitzis”

  The mitzvah of Tzitzis is in itself dispensible, inasmuch as someone who chooses not to wear a garment of four corners is exempt from fulfilling it. In effect, the mitzvah ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  Davening and thinking about something else.

  Baruch atta Hashem (I have to get my suit dry cleaned)… magen avraham (I’m really hungry)… stop it I need to concentrate on davening. Sound familiar?? ..

  Written by YK
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  Baruch atoh Hashem… The start of all blessings

        Baruch atoh Hashem…… This is the start of all blessings,; after seeing a rainbow, before eating bread, and in all our daily prayers. ..

  Written by Daniel K
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Death : Why say Tehillim by a meis (corpse)?

    Why do we say Tehillim by the side of a dead body waiting to be buried?  I pondered this as I was doing the mitzva of Shmira for a lady who had just ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  The Shema :Parshas Tzitzis

  The Gemoro in B’rochos (12a) explains that it is not only in order to fulfill the mitzvah of remembering Yetzi’as Mitzrayim, that Chazal inserted Parshas ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  Emunah – not just faith

  I was once told that the meaning of the word Emunah is not just “faith”, as it is commonly translated, but faithfulness. But it was only recently that ..

  Written by Daniel King
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  Inspiration

  7 years ago

  picking up the phone

  There was once a doctor who was told that one night shift in the hospital he would be on the ward all by himself. With many patients and no support, this was not going ..

  Written by YK
• Prayer

  7 years ago

  The Brocho on Tzitzis

  One of the first things a male Jew does in the morning is to put on Tzitzis. Part of the Mitzvah is to recite the brocha Al Mitzvas Tzitzis. However unlike most ..

  Written by Anonymous