 | Tell me that it is rational to talk to the Force of Being as though this were your closest confidant. Tell me that it is not absurd to plead with this force to adjust reality more to your liking...
Wow...Amazing article. I never really thought of prayer that way, but when I think about it, it makes sense. After all, whenever I am truly praying, truly connected to G-d, my mind is devoid of all else, and is this not a form of madness. Thanks for the excellent soul and mind food!
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Asking G-d for anything no longer holds any meaning for me. The only prayer that is real for me is prayer that brings me close to the Presence. Prayer is like love-making: technique is unimportant, the heart connection and the closeness is everything.
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wow! fantastic... May G-d accept all our prayers.
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Thought provoking as always.
Does this apply to all prayer? ie, one's own words as well as formal preset words.
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That's what makes composing your own prayer so difficult for most of us--it's hard to sustain that loss of self-consciousness while searching thesaurus.com for just the right word. So, when we do utter our own words of prayer, it usually comes out rather cryptic. As in the classic "Oy Tattty!"
Perhaps that's what King Solomon meant when he said, "G_d is in the heavens and you are on earth--so make your words short and snappy!"
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Powerful and beautiful- thank you.
The paintig is magnificent too.
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Webster-disordered in mind,insane; being rash & foolish; furious,enraged;carried away by enthusiasm; rabid; marked by wild gaiety and merriment.
I was upset at first reading this article because I said to myself, how can praying be madness? Untill I realized I had the wrong idea of madness. Take away the insanity, and we have prayer. And the way it should be said.
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For madness, may i substitute the term supra-rational. It is a type of irrationality like madness, except that it really expresses the transcendent faith/emuna/metziris nefesh (sacrificing level of faith ) that evokes'conversations' with G-d. It works really well when applied to the Moda Ani wake-up prayer when we thank G-d for his great faith ( Rabba Emunatecha ) in us. We start our day on a two way connection. Can it get much better than this ?
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I'm a little bit afraid to say this but here goes: I have gone mad and have lost my mind through not knowing-in a sense-if G-D existed for me and without being certain that G-D is there-I feel one could easily go mad many times over-it is this uncertainty that leads to a curiousity about whether G-D exists or not and this curiousity keeps us going no matter how many times we topple into the hospital due to madness-it keeps us loving G-D.and praying for a real life
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