Prayer Video

Get ready for Rosh Hashanah and watch a demonstration of the Shofar blowing service, which includes the preliminary verses, the blessings and the sounding of the shofar.

A popular tune beseeching G-d to bring peace to our people.

A classic Purim song on the words of the hymn recited following the Megillah reading.

This song and hymn praises the virtues of the great Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the author of the holy Zohar. This song is widely sung on Lag BaOmer when we celebrate his life and passing.

Within the letters and words of prayer lies the secret code to unlocking your heart and its inherent bond with G-d. With Rabbi Yossi Paltiel as our guide, we dive into the wellsprings of Chassidism to drink the inner dimensions of prayer, meeting our Maker and making Him an intimate presence in our daily lives.

In this presentation we learn right from rung. Prayer is analogous to a ladder; each movement another rung. Together with Mrs. Geulah Newman, we climb skyward even as our feet are planted firmly on the ground, touching the summit of heaven and anchoring our lives here on earth.

The Shema prayer embodies the essence of Judaism and the coherence of all existence. Anything we are, and everything we aspire to become, may be distilled into the singular Hebrew word echad, one. Mrs. Chana Marguiles takes us on a one-of-a-kind odyssey with one—infinite—destination: manifesting Oneness in our relationship with G-d, with ourselves, and with our world.

He could not read Hebrew. Forget understanding it. Yet he prayed. He prayed with all his might and mind, with all his heart and soul, with every language he knew and some he didn’t. Enter a first-hand experience with Mr. Shmuel Goodman, who spoke no Hebrew yet expressed eternity.

You know that feeling of happiness that comes with clicking "add to cart" and eagerly tearing open a package the moment it arrives… only to realize how quickly the feeling fades, leaving you craving more? In a world driven by material desires and instant gratification, it's challenging to nurture deep, lasting fulfillment. In this lesson, we will explore what our souls are genuinely seeking as we chase physical desires and how prayer can fulfill our need for lasting confidence, authentic connection, and spiritual satiety.

What is the higher purpose of prayer? Do our words truly have a cosmic impact? In this lesson, we will explore why the angels above await our heartfelt prayers, how sharing our challenges with G-d can make our relationship stronger, and how we can channel our physical desires toward spiritual transformation.

Have you ever wondered what to think about while praying? It can be challenging to silence the noise, embrace the stillness, and reflect on our relationship with G-d. In this lesson, we will explore how to meditate during prayer and learn how to awaken our inner desire to converse with G-d.

Do your prayers sometimes sound like an Amazon wishlist? Does G-d really want to hear our prayers about everyday desires that seem trivial in the grand scheme of things? In this lesson, we will explore how to transform our physical longings into opportunities for spiritual growth and discover how cultivating compassion for ourselves and others can deepen our relationship with G-d.

Does G-d really need our prayers? Obviously not. He wants our prayers. But why? The same question can be asked about existence as a whole – G-d doesn’t need a world, but He wants one, and wishes to have a relationship with every being in it. Through prayer, we explore and express our relationship with the Divine, and with the Divine Soul within us. It is our way of bridging the finite and the infinite aspects of life, and connecting with the purpose of our existence.

Though the formal prayers found in prayerbooks today were established in Talmudic times, the origin of prayers dates much earlier, to Biblical times. The three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, each introduced one of the three daily prayers, and their names are invoked within the prayers. In this lesson we explore that connection between prayer and the patriarchs, as well as several other fascinating insights about prayer and its connection to our physical and emotional makeup.

At first glance, the structure of the prayers in the prayerbook may seem arbitrary. How did the “Men of the Great Assembly,” the Talmudic Sages who authored the basic liturgy of Jewish prayer, devise the structure that has remained for over 2,000 years? In this lesson we discover that daily prayer is a ladder comprised of four rungs – acknowledgment, emotion, intellect and submission – that we are meant to climb in our daily spiritual practice.

The core of every prayer service is the “Amida” or “Shmoneh Esreh” – the silent prayer. But in fact it is not so silent. In order to fulfill the requirements of the silent prayer, we have to physically verbalize the words so that we can hear the words we’re saying. In this lesson we will learn why meditative prayer is both silent and not silent, and also explore several meditations, some of them quite mystical, that deepen our connection to the meaning behind the words.

In this lesson we look at the rationale for us blessing G-d in general and specifically in the morning, why Hebrew is the preferred language for prayer, and the layers of meaning to the ritual hand washing in the morning.

In this lesson we take a closer look at the standard wording of all blessings and also offer an additional reason for the ritual of morning hand-washing. Next, follows a fascinating discussion on the blessing of ‘Asher Yatzar”, which describes the wonders of the human body.

In this lesson we probe the deeper meaning of the blessing ‘Elokay Neshamah’, which acknowledges and thanks G-d for granting us life and a divine soul. We then proceed to explore the subsequent morning blessings of gratitude.

In this lesson we examine the succession of morning blessings, which express our thanksgiving for many special gifts we’re granted on a daily basis. We also don’t shy away from openly discussing the more controversial blessings at the end.