Weekly Tefilah Focus

Ka’amur: L’osei orim g’dolim, ki l’olam chasdo. Or chadash al Tziyon ta’ir, v’nizkeh chulanu m’heirah l’oro. Baruch Atah, Hashem, yotzeir ha’m’oros.

nora s’hilos is too awesome for praise

Ha’m’chdeish b’tuvo b’chol yom tamid maasei b’reishis

In His goodness He renews daily, perpetually, the work of creation

This segment will conclude our special series. We plan, b’ezras Hashem, to resume segments on Yotzeir HaM’oros next week.

We begin with two fundamental questions on Tefilah, which will lead us to the primary purpose of Tefilah and perhaps the most important aspect of Tefilah.

Adon ha’nifla’os

is Lord of wonders

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In the last segment, we mentioned that the words of the Shemoneh Esrei were written by the 120 Anshei K’neses HaG’dolah (the Men of the Great Assembly), which included prophets. HaRav Chaim Volozhin writes (Ruach Chaim, Avos 1:2) that the words rise to the most exalted part of the world. These words were designed by Hashem to achieve great impact merely by our focusing on each word before we say it, as discussed in the last segment.