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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community We begin with a clarification from last week’s original segment, delving into the three crucially...
We have a built-in preparation to remind us of Hashem’s awesome power and loving kindness. Ashrei, which we recite prior to Minchah, paves the way for us to make our requests after having internalized Hashem’s desire to bestow kindness and His unlimited ability to do so.
A Request for the Ultimate Understanding
[original segment: Shemoneh Esrei 64]
There are times of the year that are special times of favor before Hashem. During these times, we have greater opportunity to have our tefilos answered. Perhaps the most powerful examples are Yom Kippur, The Ten Days of T’shuvah (Aseres Y’mei T’shuvah), and Purim.
Raising Our Tefilos and Brachos to Rumo Shel Olam
In the previous segment, we discussed the great potential impact of thinking “Adon HaKol (Master of all),” as we recite the Name of Hashem, over 1,000 times weekly – recognizing and internalizing that Hashem controls every minute detail of world events, as well as events in our individual personal lives, AND that He created the world to bestow kindness.
Yihyu l’ratzon imrei fi, v’hegyon libi l’fanecha, Hashem tzuri v’goali
I would like to begin this segment with excerpts of three letters that were written by different individuals (numerous letters were received by the family) to the family of Rav Mordechai Dovid Kokis zt”l after his p’tirah at a young age. He was niftar on 15 Kislev 5780. (I am writing this segment on his actual fourth yahrzeit.)
