This evening (2/8/23), in our Wednesday night Tefilah shiur, I found myself in a bit of a quandary about how to proceed. On the one hand, we started a new topic last week and left off with a bunch of questions. On the other hand, I knew that some of our regulars wouldn't be here tonight. I decided to compromise by continuing with the same topic as last time BUT holding off on attempting to answer our questions until next time. Thankfully, I found two chapters in the Sefer ha'Ikkarim in which he explains how tefilah works. We learned through the first of those chapters tonight in which he takes up three topics: (1) Why daven to Hashem, of all beings? (2) What, exactly, is Hashem responding to in your tefilah? and (3) What is not proper to daven for?
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מקורות:
ר' יוסף אלבו - ספר העיקרים ד:יז
רלב"ג - דברים לב:לט
Ari Bleicher, "Tefillat Shav: The Limits of Prayer as a Means to Understanding its Transformative Nature" https://hakirah.org/Vol%2012%20Bleicher.pdf
שולחן ערוך אורח חיים רל:א-ב
בכור שור שבת דף כא עמוד א
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