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Prayer Of Love and Other Stories

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We live in a special time. The prophecies which foretold the coming of a new heaven and anew earth have largely been fulfilled. The Jew, who for thousands of years wandered the globe predicting this eventual upheaval and meeting mostly with derision, has today been vindicated. The sorrowful fact that the majority of Jews now living have failed to make this connection, and have become hypnotized by the-minutiae of todays technology and political order, does nothing to detract from the stark clarity of the vision. It is evident that G-d has begun, and is carrying forward by leaps and bounds, the process of giving mankind the final goad to Messianic perfection. In an era when a man can call anyone anywhere on his telephone, when vast sums of money can be transferred across the globe through a simple computer program, when a supersonic jet can take him to the ends of the earth in a matter of hours, when satellites circle overhead and scan the entire surface of the world, the notion of prayer should seem more realistic than ever. The idea that the limitations of nature are there to be transcended by an awareness of the inner energy -of Creation is the nuclear thought of our time. True, some diehard spiritual myopic will insist on incorporating those very tools of intellectual domination of nature into a physical definition of existence, as if the discovery of ingenious cell structures and particles of energy somehow reinforce the image of Nature as a blind, smothering force. But to us, to Jews, to the true servants of the One G-d, such blockheadedness, whether it is. to be pitied or censured, only serves as testimony to the degradation which can befall Man when he is liberated from his existential moorings. This diminutive disquisition, adapted from a personal letter to Mr. Leonard Goldman of Los Angeles, was not designed to give a com- Prehensive overview of the subject of Tefilla (prayer) in Judaism. Rather, it is a collection of insights, gleaned from the Talmud, into the workings of prayer. Its goal is to serve as a reminder to us of that which we already know; namely, that the awareness of G-d as the ultimate mover in Nature is a cornerstone of maintaining a legitimate Jewish life. Deny this, and you become a rudderless ship, buffeted about by a welter of woeful winds and waves on the waters of life. An auxiliary advantage to the reader might be the opportunity to ap- preciate up close the detailed transcription of some of the most modem techniques of contextual analysis, as refined in the crucible of nearly two centuries of the Yeshiva movement, being applied to timeless Talmudic sources. Please accept, then, my blessing for achieving true love of G-d in prayer, and my apologies for being so inadequate a spokesman for so noble an endeavor. Yaakov Dovid Homnicic Jerusalem, Passover 5748

We live in a special time. The prophecies which foretold the coming of a new heaven and anew earth have largely been fulfilled. The Jew...

Author:Yaakov D. Homnick
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