Sept. 24, 2023

The Transformative Power of Tefillah/Prayer and Approaching Yom Kippur with Humility

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Season 5

What if the secret to achieving your deepest desires is within your grasp? In our recent episode, we explore the transformative power of Tefila Prayer, a potent tool that can alter the course of your life. We're joined by Rabbi Lopiansky, who eloquently unravels why, despite its immense power, Tefila may sometimes feel mundane and uninspiring. We deeply dive into the heart of our spiritual connection with the divine, a relationship often influenced by our earthly desires and life circumstances.

This is not just a podcast episode. It's an invitation to tap into the potent spiritual power of prayer, where the heart meets the divine. Whether it's earthly riches, divine wisdom, or a partner, prayer unlocks the door. Yet, we also discuss the dangers of complacency, reminding listeners that nothing in life is a given. This enlightening conversation culminates in a powerful call to approach the day of atonement with humility and honesty, unleashing heartfelt prayers that can move the heavens.

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If you should embark on the treacherous journey to the center of the universe, this is what you will find there.

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In fact, it is a service, a practice of sorts that you engage in multiple times a day.

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Ghazal have told us that this practice constantly needs improvement, and few practices are known to be as efficacious, magical and potently powerful than this great thing.

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What is it?

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It is none other than Tefila Prayer, the most powerful thing that we have, the strongest tool in our arsenal.

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So, as we now are about to enter into the tenth of Tishrei, the day of atonement, in which we will be standing for hours deep in prayer, let us discuss a few of the reasons why it seems that Tefila may feel colorless, drab, dreary and an uninspired, monotonous event.

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See, rabbi Lapiansky explained, according to a Gemara, that there is a certain reason why we do not always pray or feel the need to pray with such intensity.

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Because let us take an example here of somebody who wants wealth.

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He was working hard, but he really wants that Cuban cigar and a manicured backyard, a fancy infinity pool.

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He wants to be sitting in a rubah, he wants the money, he wants the riches, he wants the highlight.

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Where can you find that Prayer.

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Prayer is what it takes.

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You got to go to the ATM, to that Hashem.

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He's got it all.

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You got to pray.

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But instead it seems we lack the resolute and absolute faith in the power of our prayers.

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We just think we need to work a little bit harder.

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And Ha'o'i shirvatsad echad, the Ha'oni mitsad echad, a person who already has the wealth.

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He's already sitting there in Tahiti, his feet up in the St Regis.

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Well, he doesn't feel the need to pray.

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He has a chazakah, a presumption that this is how things have been, this is how they will continue to be in a life without the six zeros and his bank account just seems unimaginable and impossible.

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You know, keda'alimu ch'roshim dofak nu de losech'a, there are no chazakos.

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From year to year, the page has been turned, new decrees have been given a fresh start and anything can happen, but God is close to whoever calls out to him.

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Dirshu'ashem behimotsu enkyiroi sebeyo se' korov.

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This is the ten days of repentance, and Hashem gets closer and gets closer and our chafilos get more powerful every day, until they climax on yimkipper, in which we can literally cry to Hashem and he can rip up decrees like magic.

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If you want wealth, pray.

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If you want a shidach pray.

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If you want, torah, pray, and if you have all of that, or chashem, but nothing is a given and you must pray, no complacency.

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Sikashem, call Hashem with a broken heart, for Hashem is close to every single broken-hearted, honest prayer to filah.

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So stand there on the day of atonement with tears in your eyes, begging, beseeching and storming the heavens.

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Please, hashem, help me out and diving like your life depends on it as it does.