Leaving the upper world while holding on tight.
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Thank you for bringing more meaning to my prayer. This was incredible and just what I needed to fully understand what I am doing while praying.
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It took a couple weeks to get back to parts 2, 3, 4 of this prayer. As usual you make a prayer, this time Shemoneh Esrei, wondrous and comprehensible. It's a story ! Who wudda thought ?! Everyone loves a good sequential story. But you have woven it into the holy serene reverent level on which it is intended to be.
While it is beyond my ken as a meditation, it is going to be more profound than what i was accustomed to.
Your take allows one to look forward to each opportunity to repeat this private and precious timeout with G-d. And v'imru amen, the angels !
Personally i have made it a habit to only apply the words awe and awesome to G-d. Like your lessons on Modeh Ani, the Shema, Kaddish >Amen Yehey Shmey Rabba, the Shemoneh Esrei is all about G-d because we make it thus via our kavanaha and emunah.
Once again, thank you for teaching/storytelling that resonates resoundingly.
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I am not able to express my joy, that I could listen to the words you said about the Amida.
It was the first prayer I learned (still with my husband z"l's help) to say in Hebrew, and at the same time understanding each word.
I did not know much about it, but felt, that it was perfect, full of beauty. But until today,
there were many sentences collected, and I did not see a connection between them.
I even wondered, what our forefathers had
to do with it...And now I see, that there is a connection between the blessings, and there is a reason why we pray in this way. There is a deep sense, how one blessing follows the other, and that it would not be whole, if we left one out.
I am not only happy to have heard this from you, Rabbi Freeman, I am deeply moved and impressed, and from now on I will have all that in mind, when I pray it.
I thank you so much for teaching us!
From now on I will love the Amida even more. So much sense in everything, and really perfect beauty. -
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