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Ikkar #5

Ikkar #5. תפלה. Why learn about it?. R’ Soloveitchik. Cognition is main motif that shapes religious experience. Cognition : the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

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Ikkar #5

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  1. Ikkar #5 תפלה

  2. Why learn about it?

  3. R’ Soloveitchik • Cognition is main motif that shapes religious experience. • Cognition: the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. • Depth & Energy of cognition placed is reflected in experience • Thus: shallow input yields shallow experience

  4. Formation of Siddur Spontaneous Structured

  5. Voices from Generations Greatest Book of Jewish Theology/Philosophy

  6. Structure- סדור(!) • Universal – Particular • Fractals • Mirror Symmetry • Numerical significance

  7. Why daven/Are Tefillot answered? • Vessel- כלי (water/rain analogy) • Prayer is the act of turning ourselves into a vheicle for the divine • Prayers are not in vain. (Story R’ Aryeh Levin) • תהילים 56: • May not be answered the way we had wanted • “No” is an answer (Father of N. Wachsmanהי"ד) • Praying for the wisdom to understand why…

  8. Human effort? • Not a substitute but a ‘most powerful’ resource of energy for human effort • (Electrical plants) • G-d gives us the strength to achieve what we need to achieve

  9. Prayer changes the world because it changes us (התפלל) • “G-d though immeasurably vast is also intensely close.” • “It makes a difference to be brushed by the wings of Eternity” • Prayer works on us slowly • See beauty of created world • I – we • Less of what we lack- what we have • Less of what we need from the world- more of what the world needs from us • Prayer is less about getting what we want than about learning what to want.

  10. Universal  Particular Plato Judaism • Universal-Particular • Siddur reflective of this with the exception of Aleinu • How we believe G-d loves us (greatest) • Particular-Universal • Concrete Instance-General Rule • Greatest- “State”

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