Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, Head Shliach of Maryland and creator of the Siddur with Chassidic Commentary, leads a new weekly class on prayer.
How many hours do you spend davening? If you count all of the hours we spend throughout life davening, you’ll realize that we spend the equivalent of a good couple of years praying!
So doesn’t it make sense for you to actually understand what you are saying? Learn how to make your davening more than lip-service and master the meaning of the siddur.
In this lesson of our comprehensive series on Tefillah, we look at the rationale for us blessing Hashem in general and specifically in the morning, why Hebrew is the preferred language for prayer, and the layers of meaning to the ritual hand washing in the morning.
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Dear #3 Why not raise the bar a little? Chassidus is far more demanding. Lets start a conversation about how true Avoidah – ESPECIALLY when combined with the noble and Tayere Avoidas Hashlichus, needs to be grounded in genuine Bittul. This ensures that the soul that surfaces from those dark subterranean depths is one that is filled with pure Ahavas Yisroel, love, empathy and joy. Some of our leaders seemed to have missed that point entirely, and deploy daily into their surroundings with anger, insecurity, envy and sadness, and yes an unmistakable mean spiritedness. Mr #3. I dont know you,… Read more »
Rabbi S Kaplan is a real Chossid, someone who we should follow as a dugmah chaya how to mix Avodah and Shlichus, something very few shluchim have really mastered.
This dose of learning is great!! Thank you!
so informative and enlightening. thank u