Handouts -Prayer 2

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    • Michal 2 years ago

      Torah🖇 Chen🖇 Tefillah= Redemption

      “Through Learning Torah all our prayers we make of Hashem are accepted.  And, the Chein, the grace, and importance of Klal Yisroel is lifted”. (Likutei Moharan)

      This idea triggered the scene with Moshe Rabbeinu praying to Hashem in וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן , Parshat Vaetchanan[1].  Perhaps this is exactly what Moshe Rabeinu was teaching us before he died. In the final book Devarim, of the Torah, that is precisely the sequence  as described in the Likutei Moharan .  When he prays to Hashem he uses the word וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן, I pleaded with Hashem.  This word also contains the word Chein.  Which is consistent with the Likutei Moharan’s order.  Learning Torah which when is  extended to prayers is a formula for the guaranteed acceptance of the prayers and requests  by Hashem and triggers a relationship of Chen, the restoration of our nation.  Or in other words the restoration of good, and the scales are are shifted to the dominance of good in the world.

      What is interesting here is that Moshe’s prayers are answered but does not seem to be the answer he requested. . He is seemingly unable to go with the nation of Israel to the Land of Israel despite his prayers and therefore a clue to the relationship of Chen.

      The Ohr Hachaim says in the same verse of וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן, that one of the conditions for acceptance of prayer is to pray as a poor person knocking on a door, therefore one of the attributes of a relationship with “Chen” that restores the grace and importance of Klal Yisroel. And, therefore a hint to the type of Torah learning and prayer required for the relationship of Chen.

      However, going to Hashem as a poor person, knocking on His door, may seem contradictory to the warning of Rav Yochanan Zakai of  the feeling of entitlement, or coming for Divine Handouts rather than being the donor according to the explanation of the Kedushas Halevi on the 8th verse in the second chapter of Pirkei Avos.

      I think it can be explained as follows.  Perhaps the idea of going before Hashem as a poor person, is actually the cleansing of the sense of entitlement . It means that we must have the awareness that  we in truth are poor as we have and are truly nothing without Hashem’s grace to us.  The fact is that we need to knock on the door, fully aware that it is with the grace of Hashem for us to learn Torah , pray and to exist.

      Just as the verse in Pirkei Avos says: רַבָּן יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי קִבֵּל מֵהִלֵּל וּמִשַּׁמָּאי. הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, אִם לָמַדְתָּ תוֹרָה הַרְבֵּה, אַל תַּחֲזִיק טוֹבָה לְעַצְמְךָ, כִּי לְכָךְ נוֹצָרְתָּ.

      He used to say: if you have learned much Torah, do not claim credit for yourself, because for such a purpose you were created.[2]

      Attributes of the Chen relationship therefore:

      • Knowing that our requests and prayers are accepted.
      • Our prayers are not conditional on The response from Hashem, As Prayer seems to be an extension of Torah of which we were created to learn and not something we are entitled to but it is our precious responsibility. [3]
      • Chen is a new measurement of relationship, Middah, that is not based on “do’s and don’ts”, or limited confines or structures and conditions.

      When describing a poor person, Chazal all agree that it is describing us the demotion to Exile[4]. Perhaps it is specifically this formula we need for redemption now.

      If we know that this type of Tefilla is accepted, perhaps the Tefillos of Moshe Rabeinu are the ones being used for us right now, to allow us to go to Eretz Yisroel, for our final redemption Biezras Hashem!  And, the ones we can knock on His door to answer.  Or, every time we learn Torah and then Pray as door knockers we are actually expanding his prayers infinitely for infinite realities of Chen and redemption.

      “ Torah- Tefillah- Chen- Redemption”

      Perhaps the sense of being poor, and desperate, under the attacks of enemies, within , and externally, the sicknesses the numerous sufferings in the world are here, pushing us to daven from our depths of our hearts, and become the decorations of our Tefillos, so they are pushed directly to Hashem, unifying and restoring the Shechina to His Glory , Beizras Hashem[5].

       

       

      [1] Devarim, 3:23

      [2] Pirkei Avos, 2:8

      [3] Pirkei Avos, 2:8

      [4] תְּ֭פִלָּה לְעָנִ֣י כִֽי־יַעֲטֹ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֥י יְ֝הֹוָ֗ה יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ שִׂיחֽוֹ

      [5] Concept inspired by the words fo the Baal Shem Tov

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