09/08/22 - SHIUR 387

Are my Tefillos really worth anything? Does Hashem really listen to me? Powering up our Tefillos

Are my Tefillos really worth anything?
Does Hashem really listen to me?
Powering up our Tefillos

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Eli Nadoff

Gmar Chasima Tova,

My oldest is in 3rd grade, and she is beginning to learn shemona esrei. She doesn’t know Ashrei’s translation, nor even a Pshat level rudimentary approach towards what its impact is, what the context is in Tehillim, or why it’s part of Pesukei Dizimra.
She doesn’t know what Pesukei Dizimra is, and how it differs from Birchas Krias Shma, Birchas Hashachar, or Ani Maamim….v’af al pi sheysmameah..

It’s all simply “Davening”. and she has very good fluency reading it in Hebrew. I am not the kind of parent who is always blaming schools for things, nor do i deny my wife and i’s role and potential impact, But it is hard to deny that her school is effectively teaching her to Daven without any Kavanah. That is what is being taught. Her class learns a new Tefillah, practices it until they are fluent, often with a song, perhaps a halfhearted attempt at translating it, and once they can rattle it off, they move on to the next Tefillah.

Its wildly confusing to me how we got to this point, where 8 year olds are reinforced in rote davening.

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Shiur 365 Riddle

Submitted by Y Kaltmann 
A:

With regards to the first riddle I don’t accept your premise

Why are you so sure that it was common place in the times of the mishna for a woman and children to carry and conduct business on behalf of their us husband,  it can be argued the opposite that the woman and children stayed at home and did not conduct business in the typical case of a person carrying an item in the public domain it was on item. And yes the mishna it does discuss cases were a child carries  something on behalf of their parents but there’s no need to assume that that was the norm being discussed in the mishna  question
With regards to the second riddle you could answer that the reason why a man comes before a woman is because the woman has her husband to take care of her, but in a case of a divorced woman that wouldn’t be the case.
Good Shabbos
Submitted by Avremel Grossbaum
A:

When a woman or child goes normally to market, the husband is already miyaesh on the money, as they will buy or spend as they desire. As contrasted with this woman going to market was a business woman buying wares for resale etc., so husband is not miyaesh on it.
Al derech hatzachos, the first case is like the fellow who’s wife lost the credit card but husband never reported it. Because the ganiff was spending less than his wife!

BTW I’m surprised nobody from Chabad was invited to talk about tfilla, which is taken very seriously in chabad. Learning an hour Chassidus before davening etc. The Alta Rebbe was deliberating if he should travel to Vilna or Meserich. He decided on Mezerich, saying “in Vilna they teach how to learn, and in Mezerich they teach how to daven. “Learning I already know a bit, but davening I know nothing.”  Invite rabbi YY !

Ksiva vichasima tova

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