{"id":565,"date":"2014-04-25T00:06:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T00:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=565"},"modified":"2014-04-25T00:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T00:06:04","slug":"eikev-5763-2003","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=565","title":{"rendered":"Eikev 5763 (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Eikev (5763)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Moses reassures the Israelites that God will bring them safely into Cananna, not because they are righteous but because of God\u2019s commitment to the patriarchs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 An aside: this material (Ch 9) is an argument against self-rigteousness and the victory is no proof of virture\u00a0If they disobey the commandments, Moses warns them that they will be exiled from the Promised land. Idolatrous statues are to be burned, and their previous metals not brougght into a Jewish home. Someone who eats and is satisfied should thank God for the food.\u00a0 The commandments of tefillin and mezzuah are repeated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Today: Controversial topic:\u00a0 prayer<\/p>\n

\u2022Heschel \u2018Man\u2019s Quest for God<\/p>\n

\u201cTo pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine maring in all attainments\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Art Green \u2013 Beginning of religion is awe<\/p>\n

\u201cPrayer is the essence of spiritual living. Its spell is present in every spiritual experience\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of prayer is based upon the assumption of man\u2019s ability to accost God, to lay our hopes, sorrows, and wishes before Him\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGod is not alone when discarded by man. But man is alone\u201d<\/p>\n

Ch 11, verse 13<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rashi \u201cserve God with all your heart \u2013 service which is with heart\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Everlyn Garfiel \u2018Service of the Heart\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2022 But how do we begin the amida?\u00a0Pslam 51, verse 17\u00a0We would expect to begin with \u201cfor you hear in mercy the prayer of every heart\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Why the difference?\u00a0It is the mercy of God to accept even prayers that come only from the mouth, as lip-service, wihtout inner devotion<\/p>\n

\u2022 What is the nature of kavanah? Prayer is not thinking.\u00a0 \u201cTo the thinker, God is an object, to the man who prayers, He is the subject\u2026Life is fashioned by prayer, and prayer is the quintessence of life\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Midrash: How to make telifah a \u2018service of the heart\u2019<\/p>\n

Cleanse your mind of all foreign thouths and imagine standing before the shechina<\/p>\n

Understand the meaning of the words that you pray and focus on them<\/p>\n

Reshonim took 7 seconds a wor d for the first paragraph of the amida<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0End again with Heschel<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately the goal of prayer is not to translate a word\u00a0 but to translate the self; not to render an ancient vocabularly into more terminology but to transform our thoughts\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022It\u2019s a spiritual workout!<\/p>\n

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Drash Cards for Eikev (5763) by Marc Mangel   \u2022 Moses reassures the Israelites that God will bring them safely into Cananna, not because they are righteous but because of God\u2019s commitment to the patriarchs. \u2022 An aside: this material (Ch 9) is an argument against self-rigteousness and the victory is no proof of virture\u00a0If … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-565","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions\/566"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}