How to pray in trying times

going back about 2,000 years ago there was a famine in Israel a drought there was no rain and people it was not good times was not a very pretty sight the talmud says that Rabbi elazar got up and recited 24 blessings he recited the 18 blessings of the amida an additional six blessings that were recited traditionally on Fast days he recites 24 blessings authored by Ezra authored by the sages nothing happens then rabi aka gets up and RAB AKA gets up and he says a Our Father our King we have no other king except you and it starts pouring Raina was answered why was RAB IA answered and not rabi elazar the talmud says RAB AA wasn't necessarily a greater scholar or you know more meticulous than rebbi elzar why was Rabbi AKA answered and Rabbi elzar wasn't the answer is rabie elzer was a passionate committed Jew and you know why he was born into a family where he had that opportunity to learn to study to grow to connect and his natural course in life was I'm going to be a rabbi I'm going to be a devout committed Jew how did Rabbi AA grow up Rabbi aa's ancestors were converts and the way Rabbi AA himself grew up just because just because of where he happened to the lineage had come from he wasn't fortunate to study Torah up until the age of 40 started learning the alfit at age 40 he was inspired by his wife and then went to study for 24 years for him studying was not natural learning wasn't natural the environment of of what it means to be a devout committed Jew was against the nature was against the odds was against the natural uh trajectory one way it would have thought for his life he was just a simple farmer yet he pushed himself he decided to study to throw himself in to connect and he became the great rabaka of the talmud he had 24,000 plus students he gets up and says ainuu God answers him reaba was fighting against his nature to serve God I got to answer this guy says God