Jan. 2, 2024

Unveiling the Soul of Tefillah: A Journey into the Transformative Power of Jewish Prayer

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Season 6

Have you ever considered that your daily prayers might be more than a simple conversation with the divine? Embark on a transformative journey with us as we dissect the true essence of Tefillah, the Jewish prayer practice that is so much more than a list of requests to the Almighty. We'll reveal how this sacred tradition is designed to lift our spirits to the heavens and ground us in the rich soil of divine wisdom, reshaping our inner landscape with each word uttered.

Together, we'll navigate the depths of Tefillah, understanding it as a sublime exchange where the mortal and the immortal meet. Without shying away from the complexity of bringing heavenly concepts into our earthbound existence, we discuss the rejuvenating power of prayer. It's a space where we can acknowledge the divine presence in our lives, emerging unburdened and enriched with a renewed sense of purpose and peace. Join us in this episode, where mindfulness meets meditation and where the act of prayer becomes an opportunity for spiritual and personal revival.

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Friends, it seems that we have gravely misunderstood and misinterpreted one of the most central and essential parts of our Avaidas Hashem and, frankly, our daily routines.

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It is three times a day that we all hope and attempt to divorce ourselves from the outside world, to quit the hustle and bustle and take a time out and just pray a meeting with the boss.

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But we call just Tafila prayer and see, just like the beginning and opening line of the new safer, safer Shamos, which tells us right away what is in a name, the Ales Shamos, that the following names are going to play a crucial role and they actually at times define the thing that's being described as actual nature Tafila, his Spallil also tells us a great deal about what Tafila is supposed to be.

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The word actually comes from his Spallil.

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Pelel shows up in last week's Power Show when Yaakov sees Yosef's face and said Lo Pelel, I didn't believe it.

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I thought it was impossible that I was ever going to see your face, yosef.

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Now it's happened, it's a happy day.

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But Pelel Tafila means to bring an extraneous matter into real, touchable, material reality, to bring it to mind, to see it, to make the impossible possible.

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Hence Tafila is supposed to be a renewal and a bring to the forefront of your mind the godly ideas that are floating about and maybe seem impossible.

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Where we can go wrong in the area of prayer is that it can be defined as a meeting with the boss to shoot off our own thoughts and unload, unburden ourselves.

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Yes, that is all a part of Tafila to project our thoughts and emotions to our Father in Heaven.

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Yes, but perhaps doubly as crucial is the necessity of letting the words, the previously extraneous and outward ideas Pelel Tafila now dive deep down into our psyche.

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Tafila has a moment to disconnect, to disassociate yourself with the outside world and meditate upon these true and endlessly enduring facts of life about Hashem, about the holiness, about God granting wisdom, about Hashem, listening to our Tafila.

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It's about the thanksgiving sacrifice and how thankful we are to Hashem and concluding with a prayer for some help and a prayer for some peace.

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But Jewish prayer is different.

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It's called Tafila.

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It is not a projecting from the inward out, but rather a prayer, some moments of meditation, of taking these extraneous outward thoughts and emotions and pushing them inwards to help us feel re-energized and refreshed.

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So these timeless lessons don't fade away.