Rav Dov Singer, Prepare My Prayer, p. 111
One of the greatest challenges we face when praying is the
length of the prayer service:
"What, I have to say all of this?"
We can look at the prayer
Not like a walk down a straight path toward the ever-furthering
horizon.
Rather as a ride in an elevator, where on each floor that we
reach,
We find before our eyes a completely new world, surprising
and different.
A ride in an elevator that elevates us to worlds from which our
reality can be seen in a whole new light.
An elevator that brings us to the heart of the world, to its
innermost chamber.
A prayer in which we not only recite words, but we sense that
we are part of a living event, dynamic and stirring, in which each page of the prayer book holds within it a gateway to another world, another existence.
Our world isn't only the one we see spread before us, but it is
built as one world on top of another, a room inside a room, higher and higher.
Prayer is meant to elevate us from chamber to chamber, to skip
between the worlds, to rise above the here and now.
Each part of the prayer takes us to a different world, Like moving from room to room in a museum, like riding in an
elevator.
One of the greatest challenges we face when praying is the
length of the prayer service:
"What, I have to say all of this?"
We can look at the prayer
Not like a walk down a straight path toward the ever-furthering
horizon.
Rather as a ride in an elevator, where on each floor that we
reach,
We find before our eyes a completely new world, surprising
and different.
A ride in an elevator that elevates us to worlds from which our
reality can be seen in a whole new light.
An elevator that brings us to the heart of the world, to its
innermost chamber.
A prayer in which we not only recite words, but we sense that
we are part of a living event, dynamic and stirring, in which each page of the prayer book holds within it a gateway to another world, another existence.
Our world isn't only the one we see spread before us, but it is
built as one world on top of another, a room inside a room, higher and higher.
Prayer is meant to elevate us from chamber to chamber, to skip
between the worlds, to rise above the here and now.
Each part of the prayer takes us to a different world, Like moving from room to room in a museum, like riding in an
elevator.
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