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the rambam writes in his
chot that were put together in several
different put them together the
responses one of the Publications called
Blau based on the that put it together
has the chv of the r has the answer of
the r to different sh different
questions that he was
asked in a publication of BL in
261 the rambam has asked a question
about
the significance of
the all of the different songs if you
will of prayer that we have at the you
know beginning of the
and the ram writes to this simple
oneline
question about 30 or more lines of
answers where initially he says it's
beautiful it's teachings of M that is
going to help a
person aim their heart to have kavana
when they're
praying but he didn't believe that it
was necessary for a person
to do this in a sh in fact he thought
that it would be a mistake to do it in
sh cuz people should do this at home
should already be
prepared to pray before they even get to
sh because if we make everybody do this
in the
synagogue perhaps it could make it
difficult for certain people Elders or
people that uh are weak or even somebody
that was just circumcised that day like
a convert or someone that wasn't
circumcised as young person he
mentions these people if you make uh the
the so long they may not come or they
may suffer from it or if they come
late but he says the bigger mistake
is is that people spend a lot of their
time
singing instead of focusing their cavana
on the
Main and so when it comes
to getting to the main part of the
that's an obligation
they start hurrying up and reading it
abruptly reading it as fast as
possible and clearly making a mistake of
all mistakes the rambam
says because if they really believed
that they were praying to
God asking him for help praising him for
his majesty
admiring his
ability thanking
him if they really thought they were
praying to God then where would they get
the idea that it's good to hurry this
part
up and he says a person that does not
rebuke his Kazan the caner for praying
too fast the parts that are supposed to
be prayed with full
kavana person doesn't rebuke him is a
sinner says the
rambam because surely we know says the
rambam
that aatm the servitude of hem with the
mouth is only being fulfilled if a
person has full intention to delve into
the words and know their
meaning because if you don't have that
cavana and you just pray fast just for
the sake of finishing the
decree the judgment on that prayer says
the
rambam is the prayer of a drunk or a
parrot that simply
repeats what they heard somebody tell
them to
say here the rambam is trying to tell us
that we're really supposed to have a lot
of
kavana in every part of our
prayer and that's actually what the goal
of
the it's supposed to be M teachings and
different things that are going to
scare
you in order to prepare
you one example is when we pray in the
beginning of sh where it
says that a person should always be
fearing of
Heaven in private and in public and
always admit to the
truth here
the sidu that we all read talks us talks
about how
aside from
A's
extraordinary kindness and greatness we
also have to recognize our our own
limitation how we are
nothings how we depend
on how our existence is of is
inconsequential to
him that
although he loves us he doesn't need us
that everything is for his sake for the
honor of his
name what are we what is our life what
is our kindness what is our
righteousness what is our power what is
our might what could we possibly have to
say in front of you Hashem Our God the
god of our
forefathers that all of the heroes are
like nothing in front of
you
that the people of Fame of the
past as if they never
existed the wise were as if was as if
they had no
knowledge and the intelligence was as if
they had no
understanding all of our actions are
void and the days of our lives are
worthless why why do we say these
horrible things to start off the
day because these are the type of things
that when a person understands what it
said it softens their
heart and prepares it to connect to the
almighty so of course we're not at the
level to be like the rambam and have
full cavana with every single
word and it's amazing to hear stories of
different that did have kavana like the
r that ra had when he was a young boy
yes Solomon who had so
much kavana when he would pray
the with tears and Agony that by the
time they got toid he did not have the
strength to get up you would have to
have help you would have to grab
something try it at home one time to
have full kavana in every word that you
pray in the
morning the biggest manual labor in the
world is nothing in compar
the point is that although we know we
may not be at a
level to have in every word that we
pray teaches us that at the very least
if we can't pray like that let's not
learn like that let's not continue
listening to sh without kav let's not
continue reading books
without kavana let's not continue
looking for something to calm us down
let's not continue lying to ourselves
and think that we have done
enough all of us have to do chuba
whether you are a new Bal
chuba or you're from from birth whether
you
are or Rabbi if you're alive
it's time to do
Chua the quicker a person understands it
and starts applying it to their life to
quicker their back on the right
direction they'll be full of
blessing andm
success thank you for learning with me
May hasem bless each and every single
one of us to succeed in fulfilling every
words of the
sages the way that
wants us to because at the end of it all
it's for
us
am let me know uh what you think and
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people need to learn too
