High Holy Days - Episode 10: Praying with Intent - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

[Music] we've discussed that the challenge of life is to become who we really are this way we connect up with a shame that Arnie connects when a teammate a midi mark will always be with a Shem then he'll be with us aniela Dodie Dodie Lee that's the challenge how do we do it so we discussed that teshuva is the prime vehicle to achieving this and peeling undesirable layers of a neshama that's one way there's another additional way very interconnected and that is Torah Hashem gave us the gift of Torah to rot Ahmet natin lalu Torah is Ahmet to rise truth titanium metal Yakov yakowa shim gives a mech to Yakov this verse is talking about tora tora Temet we say in our in our prayers about him they emit potenza heart overhaul about him be met those who have faith bayonet in a shame Amit is the key word ahmet is what we have to pursue it says Horta moshe Lycoris borrow who the seal of our shame is amit if we want to connect with a shame to bring happiness and fulfillment and joy and success into our lives hashem is i met in order to connect we have to be a met we have to unpeel our souls we do it by Jove are we do it by tour I the study of Torah delving in Torah has this mystical characteristic that it just brings us closer to emit because it's a real pursuit it's a real pursuit of God's Torah it's a real pursuit of Ahmet this brings a person close to emit i'll share with you an amazing incident in the shahana roof semen cuff Peggy mo chapter 183 this chapter deals in Orihime this chapter deals with the Berkut amazon with saying the grace after meals and it mentions over there grace after meals needs to be said with great qivana with great intention one has to think of the words and not just parrot like say off the words one should look inside as you do read from inside the bureau in the bench and and one should focus when we win youse it's a very powerful prayer it's a prayer one of the one of the prayers of that is prescribed in the Torah via house of the savate over after when you eat and you satisfied barash thank hashem very powerful powerful prayer we say every day the following incident happened a young man young boy young lad living in Europe he was learning in your shiver and this young fellow the yeshiva was graced by a visit of one of the greatest dignitaries in the world in the Jewish world the maaram Mary Schapiro marrek Shapira the great founder of the DA few me of the study are deaf of Torah every day a deaf of Talmud every day he was the great that's great genius and he came and he gave these young lads issuer and he pointed out to them that in this chapter could pay gimel it's brought down in one of the commentaries that the area tave he brings down a very ancient source from hundreds of years before of the tush bets the touch bet says the following someone who says Birkett amazon the benching the grace after meals with deep intention thinking of every word he will be saved he will never be hungry and he will be saved from extreme hostility this is what he said this young lad internalized this and he was so profound affected by a rough my ram Shapira this great giant that he decided from that day he would always say Bearcat amazon with all the intentions possible and this became his personal mitzvah saying Birkett amazon the way it should we said shortly after that then that's him arrived and they started this the terrible Holocaust and they started wiping out and killing this mass killing of Claudius well he found himself in one of the concentration camps his family had been wiped out he was alone a young fellow alone and as he gets off the train he comes before the selection the infamous selection of those regime of those evil may they rot in hell those evil perpetrators of the Holocaust and this these sophisticated nuts him would stand and make a selection the famous doctor would make a selection with one look and one flick of the finger would either send a person to the right to life or to the left to death this dr. death they called him and there he stood and this young fellow as he was approaching he thought in his mind Hashem I have always preyed birkat hamazon since i'm a young boy with qivana because that's what the Tosh beth says and you promised the Taj bets promised that if i say bearcat amazon with all the intentions then i will be saved from austerity please save me and as he walked up to this atrocious man the man looked at him and said how old are you and he reared himself up and he said he was much older than he was he said he was 18 all his fellow youngsters who were fourteen was sent to the left but he stood big and he said he was 18 he was sent to the right to in the meanwhile to life he then came before another selection and in this election again this cursed man was questioning them do they have any value any worse or do we send them straight to the gas chambers and again every person had to say what was his profession and he's standing in the line and some are being sent to the left and some to the right and as he comes forward he doesn't know what to say but he's closed his eyes and says Hashem I said birkat hamazon every day of my life for years with Kavanaugh and you promised that I'd never go hungry and you promised that I'd be saved from hostility save me now and as he approaches him the fellow behind him whispers in his ear say that you were a cook they need cooks and he comes before the man and this terrible russia says what is your profession and he said I'm a professional chef he sends him to work in the kitchen he spent his years in the concentration camp he was never hungry because he could eat scraps and morsels he desperately tried to help his fellow Jews by giving them scraps and morsels but his prayer was answered he survived and he never went hungry because he listened to what it says in the show Hannah roof the very tape says if you say burek at amazon with havana says the Tash bets you will be saved from poor a note and you will be saved from from hunger we see that if a person follows the truth if a person follows the prescribed prescription of Torah that he in a certain sense is coming back to who he really is to his source is connecting with a shame we can connect with a shame when we say birkat hamazon back ivana when we connect with a shame ver I need Tammy damask I'm with you if a person says every day grace after meals from acid or with a bit of Kavanagh then he's connecting with a shame every day he's a neat amid Amash vanish m says the hasta be a Domini I'll hold your right hand I'll guide you through the perils of life [Music]