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Davening vs Learning

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How have I, a person who davens the whole day? The Sifri says, [music] that's the pshat. If a person would daven the whole day, he would do plenty of learning because [music] that's when the yetzer hara hits him the most to learn Torah. Let's make davening all day and then you'll learn, you'll learn for over two-thirds of the time. So, there [music] is, it's an interesting thing, apparently davening is harder than learning. Davening is harder than learning. >> [music] >> And learning, one might say, has a certain egotism, intellectual satisfaction. Davening is total submission to the Ribono shel Olam. We don't like to submit. We don't like to subordinate [music] ourselves. So, even learning, which we often may try to avoid when it comes to davening, we'll do learning over davening.