Thursday, December 16, 2010

Listen

Prayer is on of the three pillars of divine service, the other two are study and acts of kindness. The Alter Rebbe teaches that prayer isn’t about talking, as one would think by walking into a synagogue, rather prayer is all about listening. The talking that we do is just to get us into the right mind frame to be able to listen.

What should you listening for? For the sound of your soul, as well as the soul of every creation, singing and longing to G-d. For the divine energy within each person, and each creation, is continuously singing a love song to G-d. For the energy feels it's source and it wants to return to it's source, the divine infinite light. The fact that it is placed in this world by the divine plan does not diminish it's continues yearning to return.

So, next time you go to shul, between reading all those words, make sure you make time to listen. Listen to the voice singing in your heart, in the heart of every human being, in every blade of grass, in every drop of water.

Listen and perhaps sing along.

(Chasidus Mevueres Tefilah, first Mamar)

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